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CD A Tribute To Jack Johnson

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  • Issued : 19 Oct 2005

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Genre : Jazz Catalogue Number : SICP838
Format : CD Label : Sony Music
Issued : 19 Oct 2005 Item sourced from : Japan
Number of Discs : 1
Other : Reissue

A Tribute To Jack Johnson

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  • SACD   Japan Edition   ¥3,675     Released: 21 May 1999  
  • CD   EUR Edition   ¥1,391   Reissue Collection CD (EUR Import)   Released: 14 Mar 2005  
  • Blu-spec CD   Japan Edition   ¥2,500   Reissue Limited Edition Blu-spec CD   Released: 18 Feb 2009  

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None of Miles Davis' recordings has been more shrouded in mystery than Jack Johnson, yet none has better fulfilled Miles Davis' promise that he could form the greatest rock band you ever heard. Containing only two tracks, the album was assembled out of no less than four recording sessions between February 18, 1970, and June 4, 1970, and was patched together by producer Teo Macero. Most of the outtake material ended up on Directions, Big Fun, and elsewhere. The first misconception is the lineup: the credits on the recording are incomplete. For the opener, Right Off, the band is Miles, John McLaughlin, Billy Cobham, Herbie Hancock, Michael Henderson, and Steve Grossman (no piano player!), which reflects the liner notes. This was from the musicians' point of view, in a single take, recorded as McLaughlin began riffing in the studio while waiting for Miles; it was picked up on by Henderson and Cobham, Hancock was ushered in to jump on a Hammond organ (he was passing through the building), and Miles rushed in at 2:19 and proceeded to play one of the longest, funkiest, knottiest, and most complex solos of his career. Seldom has he cut loose like that and played in the high register with such a full sound. In the meantime, the interplay between Cobham, McLaughlin, and Henderson is out of the box, McLaughlin playing long, angular chords centering around E. This was funky, dirty rock & roll jazz. There is this groove that gets nastier and nastier as the track carries on, and never quits, though there are insertions by Macero of two Miles takes on Sly Stone tunes and an ambient textured section before the band comes back with the groove, fires it up again, and carries it out. On Yesternow, the case is far more complex. There are two lineups, the one mentioned above, and one that begins at about 12:55. The second lineup was Miles, McLaughlin, Jack DeJohnette, Chick Corea, Bennie Maupin, Dave Holland, and Sonny Sharrock. The first 12 minutes of the tune revolve around a single bass riff lifted from James Brown's Say It Loud, I'm Black and I'm Proud. The material that eases the first half of the tune into the second is taken from Shhh/Peaceful, from In a Silent Way, overdubbed with the same trumpet solo that is in the ambient section of Right Off. It gets more complex as the original lineup is dubbed back in with a section from Miles' tune Willie Nelson, another part of the ambient section of Right Off, and an orchestral bit of The Man Nobody Saw at 23:52, before the voice of Jack Johnson (by actor Brock Peters) takes the piece out. The highly textured, nearly pastoral ambience at the end of the album is a fitting coda to the chilling, overall high-energy rockist stance of the album. Jack Johnson is the purest electric jazz record ever made because of the feeling of spontaneity and freedom it evokes in the listener, for the stellar and inspiring solos by McLaughlin and Davis that blur all edges between the two musics, and for the tireless perfection of the studio assemblage by Miles and producer Macero. [The album was completely remastered and reissued in January of 2005, following the 2003 release of the Complete Jack Johnson Sessions box set by Legacy.] ~ Thom Jurek, Rovi

Credits

Billy Cobham(Drums),  Herbie Hancock(Keyboards),  Herbie Hancock(Organ),  John Mclaughlin(Guitar),  John Mclaughlin(Guitar (Electric)),  Michael Henderson(Guitar),  Michael Henderson(Guitar (Bass)),  Miles Davis(Trumpet),  Sonny Sharrock(Guitar),  Steve Grossman(Sax (Soprano)),  Steve Grossman(Saxophone),  Michael J. Henderson(Bass (Electric)),  Brock Peters(Spoken Word),  Stan Tonkel(Engineer),  Teo Macero(Engineer),  Teo Macero(Producer),  Bill Milkowski(Liner Notes),  Chip Deffaa(Liner Notes),  David Gahr(Photography),  Jan Persson(Photography),  Jim Marshall(Photography),  John Mclaughlin(Liner Notes),  Miles Davis(Liner Notes),  Paul Davis(Illustrations),  Paul Davis(Photography),  Teo Macero(Composer),  Urve Kuusik(Photography),  Bob Belden(Reissue Producer),  Mark Wilder(Digital Remastering),  Michael Cuscuna(Reissue Producer),  Nedra Olds-Neal(Digital Producer),  Paul Martin(Art Coordinator),  Randall Martin(Reissue Design),  Seth Rothstein(Project Director),  Dianne Spoto Shattuck(Packaging Manager),  Howard Fritzson(Reissue Art Director),  Mark Wilder(Reissue Engineer),  Stacey Boyle(Artist Coordination),  Steven Berkowitz(A&R),  Teo Macero(Audio Production)

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    Right Off
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    Yesternow

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    ペパーミント  |  不明  |  03/March/2007

    単なるリハーサルが世紀の名盤になる。トランペッターという歌手。あまり吹かないと言われるマイルスだが、それは必要に応じてであり、出来上がった音こそがすべてである。そういう意味では思い思いにソロを取る…ジャズとはー違う!

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    ペパーミント  |  大阪府  |  不明  |  23/March/2006

    一億点!格好いい最高!最高って簡単にいったらだめだけどこれはいえる。その気になれば最高のロックグループをつくれると言ったマイルス!最高です!マクラフリンのギターも!こんな風にひきたい

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    あわび  |  大阪府  |  不明  |  05/December/2002

     ソニー・シャーロックが参加していたなんて知っていたら中古屋に売らなかったのに〜。不覚です。以前の国内盤(このジャケットでないやつ)にはそんな事書いてなかったんだから。@の後半、ハービー・ハンコックが叩きつける原始的なキーボードのリフがいい!今も思い出せます。

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