Miles Davis The Complete Jack Johnson Sessions (5-CD Box Set)

Mojo (Publisher): 5 stars out of 5 - "...The musicians arrive at destinations light years from where they started....This music is still right on time..."
The Complete Jack Johnson Sessions (5-CD Box Set)
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Format:  CD  (5 Discs)
item number:  355V8
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CD Details

  • Number of Discs: 5
  • Released: August 23, 2005
  • Originally Released: 2005
  • Label: Sony

Description by OLDIES.com:

Thanks in great part to the work in the late-1960s of Miles Davis, jazz's premier shape-shifter, the term "jazz-rock" fusion became almost a household phrase. But in 1970, with the release of the LP A Tribute to Jack Johnson, the nonpareil trumpeter-bandleader made an audacious move from jazz-rock to something else again: rock-jazz. Davis (1926-1991), a lifelong boxing fan who often worked out in the ring himself, paid tribute to the first African-American heavyweight champion via an album comprised of just two selections, "Right Off" and "Yesternow." Each filled a side with electrifying sounds as Jack Johnson - the soundtrack for a documentary film - registered a resounding knockout.

On the five discs herein, Davis is joined by a typically astounding crew, made up mostly of the hottest young players, including reedmen Wayne Shorter, Steve Grossman, and Bennie Maupin, keyboardists Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, and Keith Jarrett, guitarists Sonny Sharrock and John McLaughlin (whose blasting spot at the top of "Right Off" sets the stage for Davis' all-time, hardest-rocking solo), bassists Ron Carter, Michael Henderson, Dave Holland, and Gene Perla, drummers Billy Cobham and Jack DeJohnette, and percussionist Airto Moreira. With producer Teo Macero cutting and pasting masterfully, Davis and Co. create a series of jams that ultimately yield the two extended masterpieces. Rarely is one afforded such an "inside" look at a genius at work. And seldom has genius been captured more tellingly than on The Complete "Jack Johnson" Sessions.

Entertainment Reviews:

Rolling Stone - 12/25/03, p.112
Included in Rolling Stone's "Top 10 Reissues of 2003" - "...A salute from one great black fighter to another."
Spin - 10/03, p.109
"...More confident than BITCHES BREW's jams and more free-ranging than AGHARTA and PANGEA, JOHNSON features the trumpeter dropping electric-guitar science while producer Teo Macero cuts and mixes..."
Q - 11/03, p.130
4 stars out of 5 - "...Davis's playing is as big, riffy and incisive as it ever got, yet still finds itself matched all the way by John McLaughlin's brutalising guitar..."
Uncut - 11/03, p.132
4 stars out of 5 - "...Much of it's the equivalent of sparring, especially the skinny funk workouts on the second disc..."
The Wire - 01/04, p.38
Included in Wire's "50 Records Of The Year [2003]"
JazzTimes - 10/03, pp.83-4
"...'Right Off' is Davis' last masterpiece; it's a unique combination of raw energy, serendipity and postproduction craft..."
Mojo (Publisher) - 11/03, p.136
5 stars out of 5 - "...The musicians arrive at destinations light years from where they started....This music is still right on time..."

Tracks on Disc 1:

  • 1.Willie Nelson [Take 2]
  • 2.Willie Nelson [Take 3]
  • 3.Willie Nelson [Insert 1]
  • 4.Willie Nelson [Insert 2]
  • 5.Willie Nelson [Remake Take 1]
  • 6.Willie Nelson [Remake Take 2]
  • 7.Johnny Bratton [Take 4]
  • 8.Johnny Bratton [Insert 1]
  • 9.Johnny Bratton [Insert 2]
  • 10.Archie Moore

Tracks on Disc 2:

  • 1.Go Ahead John, Pt. 1
  • 2.Go Ahead John, Pt. 2A
  • 3.Go Ahead John, Pt. 2B
  • 4.Go Ahead John, Pt. 2C
  • 5.Go Ahead John, Pt. 1 [Remake]
  • 6.Duran [Take 4]
  • 7.Duran [Take 6]
  • 8.Sugar Ray

Tracks on Disc 3:

  • 1.Right Off [Take 10]
  • 2.Right Off [Take 10A]
  • 3.Right Off [Take 11]
  • 4.Right Off [Take 12]
  • 5.Yesternow [Take 16]
  • 6.Yesternow [New Take 4]
  • 7.Honky Tonk [Take 2]
  • 8.Honky Tonk [Take 5]

Tracks on Disc 4:

  • 1.Ali [Take 3]
  • 2.Ali [Take 4]
  • 3.Konda
  • 4.New Um Talvez [Take 17]
  • 5.New Um Talvez [Take 19]
  • 6.Little High People [Take 7]
  • 7.Little High People [Take 8]
  • 8.New Um Talvez [Take 3]
  • 9.New Um Talvez [Take 4A]
  • 10.Selim [Take 4b]
  • 11.Little Church [Take 7]
  • 12.Little Church [Take 10]

Tracks on Disc 5:

  • 1.Mask, Pt. 1
  • 2.Mask, Pt. 2
  • 3.Right Off
  • 4.Yesternow

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