Kosmik Radiation Radio - May 28, 2008 Playlist

The annual birthday tribute to Bob Dylan (b. 24 May 1941) & Miles Davis (b. 26 May 1926)

CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK
Miles Davis "In A Silent Way" 1969 (USA)

Although this was actually the third album Miles Davis released featuring "electronic instruments" and "rock textures", In A Silent Way is rightly considered a landmark in his transformation from a mere jazz genius into a 20th century icon whose music transcends genre labels. Although forward looking in many ways, this album still retains a lot of the flavor of Miles' legendary acoustic quintet of the mid-sixties -- stalwarts Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter and Tony Williams were all still on board, joined by the electric pianos of Joe Zawinul and Chick Corea, and the electric bass and guitar of Brits Dave Holland and John McLaughlin. Another notable facet of this recording is that the two side long compositions are spliced together from hours of taped improvisations (again not the first time Miles had relied on his gifted producer/editor Teo Macero to polish things up, but nonetheless a transformational moment in that this time the arrangements were actually created in the editing.) Miles followed this masterpiece with the double album free form funk of Bitches Brew, another landmark which is one of the best selling "jazz" albums in history (although the all-time top selling jazz record apparently remains Miles' 1959 classic Kind of Blue.)
For a more florid review of the music on this album, read young Lester Bangs' contemporaneous review. Here's a Miles classic in his modal style of the late 1950's: "So What". And here he is 15 years later playing his totally unique style of electro-funk music: "Calypso Frelimo". Plus here's a rare clip of Miles making his transformation from "acoustic jazz" to "electric rock": "Spanish Key" live in 1969, a tune released on Bitches Brew the following year.

Artist	Song	Album	Year	Country
Bob Dylan (backed up by most of The Band)	Like A Rolling Stone (Live)	The Bootleg Series Vol. 4: The "Royal Albert Hall" Concert	1966	USA/Canada
Miles Davis	Miles Runs The Voodoo Down	Bitches Brew	1970	USA

Bob Dylan	Talking World War III Blues	The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan	1963	USA
Them (Van Morrison)	It's All Over Now, Baby Blue (by Bob Dylan)	Them Again	1966	Ireland
Manfred Mann	If You Gotta Go, Go Now (by Bob Dylan)	Semi-Detached Suburban (20 Great Hits of the Sixties)	rec. 1965	UK
Cher	All I Really Want To Do (by Bob Dylan)	All I Really Want To Do	1965	USA
The Byrds	Just Like A Woman (by Bob Dylan)	(Untitled) LP outtake - "The Byrds" box set	rec. 1970	USA
Billy Preston	It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) (by Bob Dylan)	Everybody Likes Some Kind Of Music	1973	USA
The Nice	My Back Pages (by Bob Dylan)	Elegy	1970	UK

Bob Dylan	Queen Jane Approximately	Highway 61 Revisited	1965	USA
Sonny (Bono)	I Just Sit There	Inner Views	1967	USA
Miles Davis	Teo	Someday My Prince Will Come	1961	USA

Miles Davis	Shhh / Peaceful	In A Silent Way CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK	1969	USA
Bob Dylan	Lily, Rosemary And The Jack Of Hearts	Blood On The Tracks	1975	USA

Cannonball Adderley (with Miles Davis)	Autumn Leaves	Somethin' Else	1958	USA
Wayne Shorter	JuJu	JuJu	1964	USA
Return To Forever (Chick Corea)	Game Maker	Hymn Of The Seventh Galaxy	1973	USA
Mahavishnu Orchestra (John McLaughlin)	Miles Beyond (Miles Davis)	Birds Of Fire	1973	UK/USA/ Panama/ Ireland/ Czech.

Miles Davis	Stuff	Miles In The Sky	1968	USA