Dark Magus

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Miles Davis lived inside the music, which is what one has to do to become a legendary master. He set the jazz pace and standard for five decades. Miles was always looking for new innovative territory to explore and being a musical genius, he successfully located those unheard of sounds. Ironically his innovations always left fodder for his critics. They took most of their shots upon his introduction of fusion-jazz that they called pure noise.

This is Miles: Dark Magus—Live at Carnegie Hall (1974), a two record set of live, in your face, improvisational jazz-fusion. The historic New York City hall was sold out, and even though Miles was an hour late, no one dared to leave. This was a sacred evening the Miles Davis experience. He had already captured the college crowd, the rockers and even the funkateers wanted a taste of this melodic, electronic jazz infested combustion partly influenced by soul rocker Sly Stone. Here he has assembled another group of young protégés from saxophonists Dave Liebman and Azar Lawrence to guitarists Reggie Lucas, Pete Cosey and Dominique Gaumont to drummer Al Foster and percussionist Mtume. The rhythms are wild, the synthesizers blazing and Miles' trumpet is flaming black magic.

—Ron Scott

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Contents

Moja; Wili; Tatu; Nne.

Miles Davis, Trumpet/Organ; Dave Liebman, Flute, Sax; Azar Lawrence, Sax; Reggie Lucas, Peter Cosey, Dominique Gaumont, Guitars; Michael Henderson, Bass; Al Foster, Drums; Mtume, Percussion.