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This isn't one of my favourite jazz-funk releases but I do like it a lot and I even bought the boxset as well, which I enjoyed a ton more. My main problem with it is the first track On the Corner/New York Girl/Thinkin' of One Thing and Doin' Another/Vote for Miles and the drums it has. It's is just way to repedative for my liking but I do love how it ends with this arabic feel to it. This is one h... read more

Description: This is the point in 1972 at which Miles tried to blend the grooves of Sly Stone and James Brown with jazz, just as Herbie Hancock did so differently--and so effectively--the following year on Head Hunters. But Miles's version of jazz-plus-funk lacked the ingenuity, precision, range and jazz content of Herbie's work. Where Herbie devised carefully crafted structures with interlocking, complementary parts, Miles seemed to rely hopefully on one or two chord vamps and one or two rhythmic variations. This is a beautifully produced reissue, but the liner note's talk about the pioneering aspects of the music--tape looping and overdubb This is the point in 1972 at which Miles tried to blend the grooves of Sly Stone and James Brown with jazz, just as Herbie Hancock did so differently--and so effectively--the following year on Head Hunters. But Miles's version of jazz-plus-funk lacked the ingenuity, precision, range and jazz content of Herbie's work. Where Herbie devised carefully crafted structures with interlocking, complementary parts, Miles seemed to rely hopefully on one or two chord vamps and one or two rhythmic variations. This is a beautifully produced reissue, but the liner note's talk about the pioneering aspects of the music--tape looping and overdubbing--doesn't alter the outcome. From a jazz point of view, the strongest feature of these pieces is the presence of solos by Dave Liebman, David Creamer and Herbie Hancock in which they use fluent chromatic movement to bring colour to essentially monochrome backgrounds. --Mark Gilbert ... (more) (less)