Miles Davis - Porgy and Bess (Hybrid SACD, Ultradisc UHR)
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Miles Davis – trumpet, flugelhorn [click here to see more Vinyl / SACD featuring Miles Davis]
Paul Chambers – bass [click here to see more Vinyl / SACD featuring Paul Chambers]
Philly Joe Jones – drums [click here to see more Vinyl / SACD featuring Philly Joe Jones]
Jimmy Cobb – drums [click here to see other Vinyl / SACD featuring Jimmy Cobb]
Ernie Royal, Bernie Glow, Johnny Coles and Louis Mucci – trumpet
Dick Hixon, Frank Rehak, Jimmy Cleveland and Joe Bennett – trombone
Willie Ruff, Julius Watkins and Gunther Schuller – horn
Bill Barber – tuba
Phil Bodner, Jerome Richardson and Romeo Penque – flute, alto flute & clarinet
Cannonball Adderley – alto saxophone [click here to see more Vinyl / SACD featuring Cannonball Adderley]
Danny Bank – alto flute, bass flute & bass clarinet
Gil Evans – arranger & conductor [click here to see more Vinyl / SACD featuring Gil Evans]
George Gershwin - composer
1 Hybrid SACD, Ultradisc UHR, gatefold digisleeve
Limited to 3,000 numbered copies
Stereo
Studio
Label : MOFI
Original Label : Columbia
Recorded July 22 & 29 and August 4 & 18 1958 at Columbia 30th Street Studio, New York City
Engineered by Ray Moore
Produced by Cal Lampley, Teo Macero
Remastered by Krieg Wunderlich
Originally released in 1959
Reissued in 2019
Tracks:
- The Buzzard Song
- Bess, You Is My Woman Now
- Gone
- Gone, Gone, Gone
- Summertime
- Oh Bess, Oh Where's My Bess
- Prayer (Oh Doctor Jesus)
- Fisherman, Strawberry and Devil Crab
- My Man's Gone Now
- It Ain't Necessarily So
- Here Come De Honey Man
- I Loves You Porgy
- There's a Boat That's Leaving Soon for New York
Reviews :
"Tomes are available annotating the importance of this recording. The musical and social impact of Miles Davis, his collaborative efforts with Gil Evans, and in particular their reinvention of George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess are indeed profound. However, the most efficient method of extricating the rhetoric and opining is to experience the recording. Few other musical teams would have had the ability to remain true to the undiluted spirit and multifaceted nuance of this epic work. However, no other musical teams were Miles Davis and Gil Evans. It was Evans' intimate knowledge of the composition as well as the performer that allowed him to so definitively capture the essence of both. The four dates needed to complete work on Porgy and Bess include contributions from several members of his most recent musical aggregate: Julian "Cannonball" Adderley (alto sax), Paul Chambers (bass), and Jimmy Cobb (drums). Although the focus and emphasis is squarely on Davis throughout, the contributions of the quartet on "Prayer (Oh Doctor Jesus)," "I Loves You, Porgy," and "There's a Boat That's Leaving Soon for New York" are immeasurable. They provide a delicate balance in style and, under the direction of Evans, incorporate much of the same energy and intonation here as they did to their post-bop recordings. There is infinitely more happening on Porgy and Bess, however, with much of the evidence existing in the subtle significance of the hauntingly lyrical passages from Danny Banks' (alto flute) solos, which commence on "Fishermen, Strawberry and Devil Crab." Or the emotive bass and tuba duet that runs throughout "Buzzard Song." The impeccable digital remastering and subsequent reissue -- which likewise applies to the Miles Davis & Gil Evans: The Complete Columbia Studio Recordings box set -- only magnifies the refulgence of Porgy and Bess. Likewise, two previously unissued performances have been appended to the original baker's dozen. No observation or collection of American jazz can be deemed complete without this recording." AllMusic Review by Lindsay Planer
Mo-Fi's Miles reissues keep coming. Porgy and Bess another atmospheric Miles-Gil Evans collaboration dropped early 2020. While all of these Miles albums are musically significant and many are sonically excellent on both original pressings and on these reissues, the biggest sonic surprise was how much better the reissued quintet (Shorter, Hancock, Carter, Williams) recordings sound compared to the originals. Whatever happened in the original mastering has been vastly improved on Nefertiti, Miles in the Sky and Filles De Kilimanjaro. If you have originals and think, you're covered, you're not! Get these while you can.” Michael Fremer, Analog Planet
Ultra High-Resolution (UHR) is a dual-layer hybrid SACD recorded with Direct Stream Digital Technology at a sampling rate of 11.2 MHZ and a frequency response of DC to 100KHz. In addition, a high-precision down-conversion is utilized for the CD layer (16bit/44.1kHz) to preserve the sonic integrity of the original DSD capture. The result: State-of-the-art sound on any machine that can play either standard compact discs or SACDs.
Ratings :
AllMusic : 4 / 5 , Discogs : 4,51 / 5