May 23, 2018 Playlist

"Miles Smiles" by Miles Davis (1967)
CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK
Miles Davis "Miles Smiles"  1967 (USA)
Miles would have been 92 years old this week (and Bob Dylan is 77!) This week's Classic Album is a high point of his acoustic jazz period, recorded a year or so before the first electric instruments began to creep into his studio. It's also the second album featuring the "Second Great Quintet" of his career (the first one being his group with Coltrane in the 1950's), with the line up of Miles on trumpet, Wayne Shorter on saxes, Herbie Hancock piano, Ron Carter bass, and teenage phenom Tony Williams on drums. Shorter wrote most of the tunes, including the afro/blues polyrhtyhmic waltz "Footprints" which has become a jazz standard.
(N) = New Release
   
Artist Song Album Year Country
Pat BoonePanama (Van Halen)In A Metal Mood: No More Mr. Nice Guy1997USA
Enoch LightCalifornia Dreaming (The Mamas & Papas)The Brass Menagerie1969USA
Judy Henske & Jerry YesterCharityFarewell Aldebaran1969USA
Dr. Octagon Power Of The World (S Curls)Moosebumps: An Exploration Into Modern Day Horripilation (N)2018 (Bulk)USA
Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks Refute (featuring Kim Gordon)Sparkle Hard (N)2018 (Matador)USA
Bob DylanQueen Jane ApproximatelyHighway 61 Revisited1965USA
 
 
Eleanor Friedberger Rule of ActionRebound (N)2018 (French Kiss)USA
The Breeders SpacewomanAll Nerve (N)2018 (4AD)USA
Speedy Ortiz Backslidin'Twerp Verse (N)2018 (Carpark)USA
Kate BushBabooshkaNever For Ever1980UK
Poppy Let's Make A VideoPoppy.Computer (N)2017 (I'm Poppy / Mad Decent)USA
Suuns Watch You, Watch MeFelt (N)2018 (Secretly Canadian)Canada (Quebec)
   
 
Triptides Strange LoveVisitors (N)2018 (Requiem Pour Un Twister)USA
Brief Candles TiramisuRetreater (N)2017 (self release)USA
Guided By Voices Blink BlankSpace Gun (N)2018 (GBV Inc.)USA
Monster Magnet MindfuckerMindfucker (N)2018 (Napalm)USA
Unknown Mortal Orchestra Major League ChemicalsSex & Food (N)2018 (Jagjaguwar)New Zealand
Jimi Hendrix Power Of SoulBoth Sides Of The Sky (N)c. 1969 (2018 Experience Hendrix/Legacy)USA
   
 
John Coltrane (with Eric Dolphy)India (live)Impressions1963USA
Eugene Chadbourne & Camper Van BeethovenZappa Medley (Frank Zappa)Camper Van Chadbourne1987USA
The ByrdsNothing Was Delivered (Bob Dylan)Sweetheart of the Rodeo1968USA
Titus GroanOpen The Door Homer (Bob Dylan)A-side 7" single (bonus track on Titus Groan CD reissue) 1970
UK
Bob DylanThe Boxer (Simon & Garfunkel)Self Portrait1970USA
David BowieSong For Bob DylanHunky Dory1971
UK
Bob DylanJust Like Tom Thumb's Blues (live)The Bootleg Series Vol. 4: The "Royal Albert Hall" Concertrec. 1966USA
   
 
Miles DavisOrbitsMiles Smiles
CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK
1967USA
Miles DavisFootprintsMiles Smiles
CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK
1967USA
Miles DavisEighty-OneE.S.P.1965USA
Miles DavisOne Phone Call / Street ScenesYou're Under Arrest1985USA
   
 
Herbie HancockOstinato (Suite For Angela)Mwandishi1971USA
      
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