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Miles Davis

This is the image of the Tutu album produced in 1986. It is based on an Irving Penn portrait of Miles Davis

Miles Davis' only Australian tour was in 1988. I didn't see it even though it took in Adelaide. Suzanne reckons she did, though she cannot remember much about the music. She did mention funky.

Was this Miles Davis still electric Miles? The one who made music such as this Or had he moved on yet again?

Miles Beyond is a good site for those wanting to explore electric Miles.

I cannot recall many Australian rock bands being influenced by electric Miles. Are there any? Or was Australian rock pub rock? Raw primitive energy with little innovative musicality. How did these conservative musicans react to electric music that ditched many of the pillars of jazz such as the chord progression, the walking bass line, the swing eighth notes, and replaced them with one-chord vamps, bass riffs, swirling electronic keyboard and synthesiser sounds, hard-line funk and the backbeat of rock.

Or did this music pass them bye?

Posted by Gary Sauer-Thompson at June 7, 2005 12:06 AM | TrackBack