That Solo is insane, People who only think as Miles as a softer muted player, have no idea, this is mind blowing, Miles says more during this 9 minutes than Wynton ever has.
Released the year following the ground breaking Bitches Brew, I find Jack Johnson to be more focused and truly a superior work. Unfortunately it's been far too overlooked because of the historic impact of Bitches Brew.
thanx to jimbosity007 for posting this and ofcourse strongly encourage everyone to listen to the entire version, ending with one of the epic guitar solos of all time.
just wanted to agree whole heartedly with jimbosity007's take on the soloing of Miles Davis here. He is so lucid in all of his solos and if Charlie Parker would be smiling if he could have heard some of these searing bop lines Miles was ripping off with the incredible aggression.
@1Delta I agree, Mclaughlin does a great job comping, probably the best comping i have ever heard. not to mention the great solo at the begining haha.
this was the very first fusion I ever heard. found an LP just sitting on someone's shelf. no personnel listed for musicians,....just Miles Davis Soundtrack of movie about boxer Jack Johnson. For the full 26 plus minutes I went into a literal trance. This performance blew my mind completely, and the guitar solo at the end is as electrifying a crescendo as there is in any form of music ever. The entire version of RIGHT OFF is a flat out masterpiece. R&B groove in outer space!
@jaquestotite Yeah.....mind bending shit that stands up ten thousand years later; quick, harsh, sweet and in some weird way uncomplicated...then bending back to In A Silent Way and then leaving that place again. The critics pissed on it at the time....but we cant remember their names so fuck em.
Agreed... It is a simple piece, but it is so busy. This was on of the first jammys that too me down the road to fusion. I was 4 when this dropped. Nobody covers this. If you look up Philadelphia Bass player Jamaladeen Tacuma, you will find a decent arrangement. Right Off will stand alone for years to come
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oh yes. only miles could keep that bridge section when it goes to chord IV (john goes early but grossman delays it - lovely! miles comes in on the fourth note of the chord) going for so long by playing so outside and sometimes back in, and leaving the gaps... oh the gaps that he leaves... a lesson in itself........
The first time I heard this, I had no idea who was playing, and never heard electric fusion jazz before. Put on Right Off and was hypnotized for the whole side. The way the bass and guitar comped and flowed endlessly reconfiguring the landscape for the trumpet solos. Then what completely blew my mind was the guitar solo at the end, still one of my favorite solos ever.
Went on to find out the guitar was Mclaughlin and never looked back. Hancock's organ solo on top of that.
Miles was/ is a rock star 2! If u love this, u've got 2 get "The Complete Jack Johnson Sessions" there's a piece called "Duran" that ne music lover would love!
Just fantastic music here. I might be wring but McLaughlin is at the very top of his game here. Hendrix would have played this groove in a different way, more r'n'b-like. Miles needed McLaughlin here.
I discovered this joint at 16 diggin thru a crate in the city. Some MoFo stole it from my flat two years later, not heard it since. When that horn comes in I get goosebumps. This really is the shit!
i dont box but i work out and run to this everyday. i know miles was in the best shape of his life when he recorded this, it really shows too! a lot of testosterone in these recordings. gets me pumped!
It was rough getting into the Mothers of Invention in the 80's because their albums were mostly ou of print at the time but I never thought that much about the Eric Dolphy Barbeque song on Weasels Ripped My Flesh until I wound up hearing him on Mingus, Coltrane, and someone else's albums and was floored. I think India inspired King Kong.
When I was a College Student in '83 and had never been exposed to fusion or what have you a person on my dorm floor got me into Mahavishnu Orchestra's first 3 Albums and then In A Silent Way, Bitches Brew, and i got into Jazz through the back door so to speak. After I got into the earlier pre John Mclaughlin Miles Davis Albums Kind of Blue, Sketches of Spain, Bags Groove, to name a few and then Coltrane, Monk, Mingus (had to hear the original Good Bye Pork Pie Hat after hearing Jeff Beck do it
What do you mean beta? Hot Rats came a year before Jack Johnson and Bitches Brew! Hot Rats is defiantly the first definably fusion album, but fusion had been floating around for a long time before it. I don't really consider In a Silent Way complete fusion, more of a prototype.
you have to admit mclaughlin was at his best when there was a miles davis standing over his shoulder ready to chew his ass out. be honest, when was the last time you listened to a mahavishnu album from beginning to end without being high? i submit that it can't be done.
i completely agree. its strange how the majority of Miles' collaborators from this period never came close to making music of bitches brew/on the corner/live evil ect. quality. just lame prog rock.
I have heard it is actually Sonny Sharock on guitar. Anyone else heard of this rumor? Regardless-I remember when I first heard this track on the radio- absolutely destroyed me. Thnks for uploading.
Please dont be angry but imagine if Miles and Hendrix had got a chance to play together, Sick shit man. I heard that they got together and jammed one night wondering if there is a tape of that
Don't mean to unkind to a legend like Hendrix who's music I like very very much. But if you read Mile's bio he talks about how Hendrix couldn't read a note music and was basically just a blues guitarist.
No doubt there's no comparing the popularity of the two which reminds me of something else I read from Miles Davis.
He's quoted saying that Rock musicians, "couldn't play but were popular"
I guess all artists want to be revered, but that shouldn't be only the reason why we listen to them. McLauglin's music perhaps too esoteric, more than likely to difficult to play for any local pub band to cover.
If Miles himself titled a piece on Bitches Brew" John McLaughlin" that's good enough for me!
they met at isle of wight 1970. but the only jam you can find is a 40 minutes jam of about 8/10 tracks between hendrix + mclaughlin with jimi band. the sound of record is a very good bootleg
In a guitar heavy era who but Miles Davis to find the perfect guitarist to collaborate with. You couldn't find anyone other than John McLaughlin to play like that. The two of them along with Michael Henderson's fluid funky bass take this piece to the house!
Mc Laughlin matches Davis in that funky jazz art mode that it's in a place by itself.
...there's nothing like this music...it kills me!~
The McLaughlin solo near the end is incredible, wish it was developed more - it's not on this upload since it takes place after 10 minutes. This is some of McLaughlin's finest playing, it is hard-edged, cutting, and powerful.
thanks, jimbosity007, wish you'd posted the whole thing so we could hear the amazing moment when our Herbie comes in on the organ...the story goes he was on his way home with his shopping past the studio, and went in to see how things were going, miles silently called him in (mid-take!!) whispered in his ear "don't fuck this up" and pointed to the organ...sweet
Damn Miles is really playing great on this track...with Authority and Force...It sounds excellent, cant stop listening to this track...Cant believe it has taken me this long to hear music of this caliber...
no problem, John Mac Laughlin is a legend,a great guitar hero,but don't forget the spirit of Jimi hendrix,the intro of "right off" by Mac Laughlin,is for me a great tribute to Jimi Hendrix, where's the problem??for sure Mac Laughlin is one of the greatest guitarist of all time.
You're absolutely right Hendrix is their inspiration, but if you knew how many different chords and chords structures John McLaughlin is using in this piece the comparison with Hendrix would end right there.
Hendrix like Miles said himself in his biography was basically just a blues guitarist, and Davis's whole idea was to take Rock music and have it played by great musicians.
...enter John McLaughlin, Herbie Hancock, and the rest.
This is Mile's Art Rock statement...before there was such a thing. Leave it to Miles to start something new. When he gets it going listen to McLaughlin in the background...the bass and drum groove...it just kills me!
I bought this album for McLaughlin and Cobham but this is where I first fell in love with the playing of Steve Grossman who became very important to me. Grossman's solo (which occurs after this video fades out) is pure heaven.
Magauphlins work in Trio of doom is very similar to this, a little more up beat faster and the drums are a bit more swing, But the guitaring is very similar. I love everything about this number they have put together.
Sometimes the whole doesn't equal the sum of it's parts; sure you can think of talented people,and so and so would have sounded better etc. But you know what? Any team of jazz all stars would have been hard pressed to match the dynamics,but more importantly, the seamless and intuitive symmetry captured here.
Musicians (or even people) that "get it" study this recording note for note. Musicians that dont "get it", this record doesnt make sense to them. Sort of separates the adventurous thinkers from the lameos.If you are ever playing with someone new and you want to get a feel for where they stand, ask them about this recording.
My favourite bit is 8.26 - 8.32. It's the sound of comforting entropy. It's a truly cosmic piece of playing.
Miles 69-73 is my favourite ever music. Closely followed by Krautrock band Can on the albums Tago Mago, Ege Bamyasi and Future Days. Does anyone else feel that Can and Miles were drinking from the same improv funk electronic cosmic psychedelic well at this point? And why is no-one doing music like this now? Even the good stuff these days is tedious compared with this.
This is paint peeling guitar, forced to be percussive because Miles was such a strict and demanding angry son of a bitch. Whoever posted this thing gets acase of the finest.
I believe I read where Miles told Maclaughlin to "play like you dont know how to play" for his solo at the very end of this side. (Not heard on this upload)
That's very interesting.You know this whole groove is not what they had practiced the night before in preparing for the "Right Off" studio recording.When the musicians began to strap up to record this at the studio,a brash McLaughlin started to warm up with the beginning of the groove-Miles heard it,and after several takes, rolled with John's new impromtu version.
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Nah, that is from In a Silent Way, hear the original version of the extended sessions and then hear the standard version after JM was instructed. He plays like he doesn't know how. And it is beautiful. This session was later.
lol Brock You know I had the original album,played the hell out of it,then lost track of it after I moved.Then, in the mid-Eighties, I found a new factory sealed LP in a discount shop. It's now a well protected keeper!
Yeah Jimbo mentioned Miles' electic stuff to me recently. Since Jimbo isn't lame i knew i should take a listen.......this is good sh...t!
I love Billy Cobham but i think he would be better suited in his hard-core jazz genre' than here. This seems like music built just for a Buddy Miles and.....Jimbo too!
Ummm Elvin Jones would have had a party on this song too.
Madero-I do respect your history as a working jazz drummer and traditional jazz fan,but this ensemble turned out to be the perfect creative storm! And to think that Henderson and Grossman were only 18 and 19 years old respectively when they cut this track is nothing short of AMAZING!
Very true and since he was very impressed with Jimi Hendrix,even inviting Buddy Miles to the Jack Johnson Sessions, his probable collaboration with Jimi would have been one for the ages!
Just read on a music blog site that Miles was indeed scheduled to join Jimi Hendrix in a band that would have also included Tony Williams on drums and Paul McCartney on bass.
that would have been totally SICK!!! in MILES, miles says that jimi and himself jammed at his home on several occasions. someone has those tapes...either his estate or columbia. i hope i live to see the day that they are released in some fashion...until then.
great post by the way!!! check out 'the little blue frog (alt)'.
Talk about "super sessions",but with their egos weighing in, I can't see more than one album.But what an album!The mind reels with the thought!.Pleasure posting this by the way.
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I seriously doubt Jimi had much ego, especially when playing with Miles. It's not for nothing Jimi started getting Jazz lessons just before he died. His sessions with JM would have shown him the work required.
Thanks for putting this up. It's one of my favorite Miles jams. I was fortunate enough to get to see Miles a few years after this in '74 I believe. He had Michael Henderson still playing bass for him. Miles was mesmerizing. I'm so glad I got to experience him live.
Miles is great live.Caught him at the pier around 1990 or so.But what grabbed my attention early on in this track was the rock like groove and John Mclaughlin's licks off of it.When it first came out, I had never heard anything so cool.
You were lucky to see him; he died the next year. I tried 3 times in the 70s and he only showed to the one gig. I always thought John was totally unique here. He never played quite like this on anything else. It sounds like Miles played him Sly
Thanku4letinmebemiceelfagin & told him to riff like that. That and James Bond theme music. Agree it's too bad Herbie comes later & didn't make this edit.
Thks for your sharp feedback.I think we agree that the recording was magical,being able to merge genres so easily like this, and the dynamics,energy,groove and synergy were unreal!
evets530 you were right on the money with Miles's tie with Sly as a project influence,as my research indicated that Miles wanted Sly's Sing a Simple Song as the project template. Kudos man!
AAA
MrWildcountry 2 weeks ago
That Solo is insane, People who only think as Miles as a softer muted player, have no idea, this is mind blowing, Miles says more during this 9 minutes than Wynton ever has.
TheDarkprinceofjazz 3 weeks ago
Thanks Jimbosity. Maybe I like McLaughlins electric sound best on this album. Love how it all fits together.
RobMackenzie 2 months ago
Released the year following the ground breaking Bitches Brew, I find Jack Johnson to be more focused and truly a superior work. Unfortunately it's been far too overlooked because of the historic impact of Bitches Brew.
aarfeld 3 months ago
@aarfeld
I agree 100 percent!
Chris2P 1 month ago
Miles Davis, kicking Wynton Marsalis' ass yet again. And again. And again.
Bravo6Whiskey 6 months ago 3
five people do not understand the meaning of music!
uiuarctic 6 months ago
A-M-A-I-Z-I-N-G...!!!!!
TheJazzySu 9 months ago
he is good when he does not play. I love him.
IvoryK2 10 months ago
Love those short sweet 'tender' moments before it all begins to boil up again. Not as feindish and twisted as On the Corner but......so what?
molloyxx1 10 months ago
HOLY SHIT! DID THEY REALLY DO THIS?!? MILES U R DA MUTHFUCKIN MAN!!!
coolymac 10 months ago
now i m hooked on miles again.thanks.
cosmicrider287 11 months ago
:-)
emptynet1 1 year ago
a call to the wild
savagestranger 1 year ago
Excellent!! Thanks for posting jimbosity007 ;-)
Ghostorchid2 1 year ago
thanx to jimbosity007 for posting this and ofcourse strongly encourage everyone to listen to the entire version, ending with one of the epic guitar solos of all time.
just wanted to agree whole heartedly with jimbosity007's take on the soloing of Miles Davis here. He is so lucid in all of his solos and if Charlie Parker would be smiling if he could have heard some of these searing bop lines Miles was ripping off with the incredible aggression.
the comping of Mclaughlin is awsome throughout.
1Delta 1 year ago
@1Delta I agree, Mclaughlin does a great job comping, probably the best comping i have ever heard. not to mention the great solo at the begining haha.
drummerman558 1 year ago
this was the very first fusion I ever heard. found an LP just sitting on someone's shelf. no personnel listed for musicians,....just Miles Davis Soundtrack of movie about boxer Jack Johnson. For the full 26 plus minutes I went into a literal trance. This performance blew my mind completely, and the guitar solo at the end is as electrifying a crescendo as there is in any form of music ever. The entire version of RIGHT OFF is a flat out masterpiece. R&B groove in outer space!
1Delta 1 year ago
Yeah, did not check spelling.
jaquestotite 1 year ago
Greatest piece of fusion that happened by accident. Right Off the fuckin' chain.
jaquestotite 1 year ago
@jaquestotite Yeah.....mind bending shit that stands up ten thousand years later; quick, harsh, sweet and in some weird way uncomplicated...then bending back to In A Silent Way and then leaving that place again. The critics pissed on it at the time....but we cant remember their names so fuck em.
molloyxx1 1 year ago 3
@molloyxx1
Agreed... It is a simple piece, but it is so busy. This was on of the first jammys that too me down the road to fusion. I was 4 when this dropped. Nobody covers this. If you look up Philadelphia Bass player Jamaladeen Tacuma, you will find a decent arrangement. Right Off will stand alone for years to come
jaquestotite 1 year ago
@molloyxx1 lol
loislombardo 11 months ago
This is "Right There!"
sonicboomfunk 1 year ago
If more people were hip to this s*** back when it dropped...can you imagine what it might have pushed Miles to let loose!!!
sonicboomfunk 1 year ago
That guitar sound!
nobodady1 1 year ago
This one has played in my head nearly every day for 40 years.
clambake444 1 year ago 2
special, this song has effects physical effects
raggamuffinand 1 year ago
This saved my night! Thanks for posting that!
jarijuhani1 1 year ago
what an opening...
andrewcramer13 1 year ago
badder than anything of its time and a subject twice as bad as that. Sex dem whiteys, Jack.
toweringflesh 1 year ago
Asbolutely unic!!! Fabulous...
folasenshort 1 year ago
I gotta get my hands on this album. This is pure genius...jazz/rock/soul all in one!!!
Sonny Sharrock is playing a wicked guitar on the background too!
coolymac 1 year ago
@coolymac John Mclaughlin..... Not Sonny. Good all though.
jaquestotite 1 year ago
Superrb clip..Love it
Thanks for posting this
musicbros102 1 year ago
One of Mile's truly great solos!
DHB1959 1 year ago 2
thank you
tomrozen1984 1 year ago 2
Great video! To the people that wanted to download, its so easy. In your URL location bar type the letters "pwn" in front of "youtube", and hit enter.
cameronorr 1 year ago
This is better than sex.
joh3 1 year ago 33
Who you fuckin'?
detectivesyme 1 year ago 2
it's good, but i don't think it's better than sex. maybe u should get some with this playing in the background, LMAO!
coolymac 1 year ago 3
@joh3 XD
quutamo87 1 year ago
@joh3 hahahah
good one :p
patsie00 1 year ago
@joh3 ur virgin
raggamuffinand 1 year ago
@joh3 then your doing it wrong ,,,, think about it
lesterclaypool1 1 year ago
oh yes. only miles could keep that bridge section when it goes to chord IV (john goes early but grossman delays it - lovely! miles comes in on the fourth note of the chord) going for so long by playing so outside and sometimes back in, and leaving the gaps... oh the gaps that he leaves... a lesson in itself........
flonusbonus 2 years ago
ladies and gentleman, Mr. John McCalughlin
mharrin5507 2 years ago 2
yes , did McLaughlin ever sound better? did Miles?
baantalingngam 1 year ago 2
everyone likes blues.
HendrixPrinceFlea89 2 years ago 3
so good.
butt17sex 2 years ago 24
NOT BETTER , BUT ALMOST .........
mr01FABIO 1 year ago 2
miles d owns
dziendobry1 2 years ago 2
wow, i never heard this before, I'm loving it.. Any recommendations this style ?
kickinitonthetube 2 years ago
check out billy cobham´s record spectrum... a true classic
arminalicbass 2 years ago
thanks man, ill check that out. i had never given this music a chance till i watch some of cobham's drum vids.
kickinitonthetube 2 years ago
Eclipse is great too
oldirtybassist 1 year ago
agharta, on the corner,
davidwatson 2 years ago
The first time I heard this, I had no idea who was playing, and never heard electric fusion jazz before. Put on Right Off and was hypnotized for the whole side. The way the bass and guitar comped and flowed endlessly reconfiguring the landscape for the trumpet solos. Then what completely blew my mind was the guitar solo at the end, still one of my favorite solos ever.
Went on to find out the guitar was Mclaughlin and never looked back. Hancock's organ solo on top of that.
masterpiece.
1Delta 2 years ago
Doesn't need to b said, but he's still ALIVE! and always will be.
The1fatpanda 2 years ago
He brought attention to SO manyy great, beautiful musicians. <3
The1fatpanda 2 years ago
Jack Johnson de Heavy Weight Music Champion of de world in de Seventies.
Mc Laughlin de Big Inspirations and de Grossman, " Spirit Blow " over the magical
and strong groove of Billy Cobham and Michael Henderson, was the air of these years, thanks for many beautifull moments, Miles.
purpureox 2 years ago
yeah, Purpureox. Thanks, Miles.
The1fatpanda 2 years ago
I don't know what to saY, cept, hope I can play like that some day. WOW! Thank You.
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The1fatpanda 2 years ago
yes,Miles played Jack Johnson
what a powefull
Ron Carter's play is cool , too
IvoryK2 2 years ago
CostCordero I agree with you 1000% They sleep on that one! Duran is the shit!
DADDY2U4EVER 2 years ago
''dynamite''
irlandos1 2 years ago
THE heaviest rock music ever made. A shame the ending didn't make it on to YouTube. Great post !
tapeatsbill 2 years ago
Miles was/ is a rock star 2! If u love this, u've got 2 get "The Complete Jack Johnson Sessions" there's a piece called "Duran" that ne music lover would love!
CostCordero 2 years ago
quite the possibly the heaviest music ever recorded!
dumbdick74 2 years ago
I agree with EZIOTHEMASTER....this is great music. Love it~ thanks, Jimbosity007 for posting. Excellent job.
rosesredvioletsblue 2 years ago
guitar riff at beginning is great too!
chicagokmc 2 years ago 3
the guitar solo at the very end is one of the best ever,...
in history, period!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1Delta 2 years ago 2
First time I listened Billy C. + J. Mc Laughlin with Miles Davis ! That's great ! Have you others tunes with tem please ? Thanks ! Alain
DESMYTTER 2 years ago
Just fantastic music here. I might be wring but McLaughlin is at the very top of his game here. Hendrix would have played this groove in a different way, more r'n'b-like. Miles needed McLaughlin here.
EZIOTHEMASTER 2 years ago
Mclaughlin is one bad mother here, struttin his shit across the barroom floor then making it talk...then miles...SCREAMS
mharrin5507 2 years ago 6
Damn!!
I discovered this joint at 16 diggin thru a crate in the city. Some MoFo stole it from my flat two years later, not heard it since. When that horn comes in I get goosebumps. This really is the shit!
TheBigRagu82 2 years ago
i love listening to this when I'm at my boxing gym.
I plug my ipod into the speakers and nail those fuckin bags.
i really dig it!
strokesfan1107 2 years ago 3
i dont box but i work out and run to this everyday. i know miles was in the best shape of his life when he recorded this, it really shows too! a lot of testosterone in these recordings. gets me pumped!
thankgoditsmusic 2 years ago
For my money, you can't do better than John and Miles together...it's the shit, period.
zenguin13 2 years ago 2
It was rough getting into the Mothers of Invention in the 80's because their albums were mostly ou of print at the time but I never thought that much about the Eric Dolphy Barbeque song on Weasels Ripped My Flesh until I wound up hearing him on Mingus, Coltrane, and someone else's albums and was floored. I think India inspired King Kong.
chrisfrommaxs 2 years ago
When I was a College Student in '83 and had never been exposed to fusion or what have you a person on my dorm floor got me into Mahavishnu Orchestra's first 3 Albums and then In A Silent Way, Bitches Brew, and i got into Jazz through the back door so to speak. After I got into the earlier pre John Mclaughlin Miles Davis Albums Kind of Blue, Sketches of Spain, Bags Groove, to name a few and then Coltrane, Monk, Mingus (had to hear the original Good Bye Pork Pie Hat after hearing Jeff Beck do it
chrisfrommaxs 2 years ago
hot rats beta
postrockalypse 2 years ago
What do you mean beta? Hot Rats came a year before Jack Johnson and Bitches Brew! Hot Rats is defiantly the first definably fusion album, but fusion had been floating around for a long time before it. I don't really consider In a Silent Way complete fusion, more of a prototype.
Chickenpainter111 2 years ago
yeah. but miles davis and coltrane were doing that stuff in smoky bars while zappa was living in a bunker in opa locka florida.
postrockalypse 2 years ago
MacLaughlin's guitar on these sessions is infinitely more palpable and inventive than that overblown and pompous Mahavishnu Orchestra bullshit.
DONDIVA1969 2 years ago 3
woah there is no need for that
dickyb1980 2 years ago
you have to admit mclaughlin was at his best when there was a miles davis standing over his shoulder ready to chew his ass out. be honest, when was the last time you listened to a mahavishnu album from beginning to end without being high? i submit that it can't be done.
ajdicks 2 years ago
i completely agree. its strange how the majority of Miles' collaborators from this period never came close to making music of bitches brew/on the corner/live evil ect. quality. just lame prog rock.
EamonAndrews 2 years ago
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CONSPIRI666 2 years ago
I don't to force it...go along with it...cozy up to it...this shit just takes over...it swings!
poochiekafelnikov 2 years ago
...This is a middle age genius musician who wanted to play Rock and Roll...
..and plays it to death!
Miles at the height of his powers physically,mentally, unleashes it on this jam...yes a jam with a mind blowing solo
that's one for the ages.
And he has John McLaughlin just killing it with Cobham and Henderson putting down a huge bass and drum track
...check it out from 5:19 to 6:00...actually it's all fantastic!
timages13 2 years ago
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ROSCOVANSUCKMYCOCK 2 years ago
I have heard it is actually Sonny Sharock on guitar. Anyone else heard of this rumor? Regardless-I remember when I first heard this track on the radio- absolutely destroyed me. Thnks for uploading.
hehaww 2 years ago
Please dont be angry but imagine if Miles and Hendrix had got a chance to play together, Sick shit man. I heard that they got together and jammed one night wondering if there is a tape of that
macewindu67 2 years ago
Don't mean to unkind to a legend like Hendrix who's music I like very very much. But if you read Mile's bio he talks about how Hendrix couldn't read a note music and was basically just a blues guitarist.
...he was no John McLaughlin.
timages13 2 years ago
All valid points, but name one song John Mclaughlin has written That has been covered by anyone ever...
n0w0rld0rder 2 years ago
No doubt there's no comparing the popularity of the two which reminds me of something else I read from Miles Davis.
He's quoted saying that Rock musicians, "couldn't play but were popular"
I guess all artists want to be revered, but that shouldn't be only the reason why we listen to them. McLauglin's music perhaps too esoteric, more than likely to difficult to play for any local pub band to cover.
If Miles himself titled a piece on Bitches Brew" John McLaughlin" that's good enough for me!
timages13 2 years ago
yeah, you're basically right, I re-read your comment and I thought I deleted the reply I sent. :0)
n0w0rld0rder 2 years ago
they met at isle of wight 1970. but the only jam you can find is a 40 minutes jam of about 8/10 tracks between hendrix + mclaughlin with jimi band. the sound of record is a very good bootleg
XanAxDdu 2 years ago
In a guitar heavy era who but Miles Davis to find the perfect guitarist to collaborate with. You couldn't find anyone other than John McLaughlin to play like that. The two of them along with Michael Henderson's fluid funky bass take this piece to the house!
Mc Laughlin matches Davis in that funky jazz art mode that it's in a place by itself.
...there's nothing like this music...it kills me!~
timages13 2 years ago
Great
mymusicdiscovery 2 years ago
The McLaughlin solo near the end is incredible, wish it was developed more - it's not on this upload since it takes place after 10 minutes. This is some of McLaughlin's finest playing, it is hard-edged, cutting, and powerful.
tmmmviii 2 years ago
holy cow...that's gotta be some of the best musicianship i've ever heard...like, ever.
hatesbostonredsox 2 years ago
thanks, jimbosity007, wish you'd posted the whole thing so we could hear the amazing moment when our Herbie comes in on the organ...the story goes he was on his way home with his shopping past the studio, and went in to see how things were going, miles silently called him in (mid-take!!) whispered in his ear "don't fuck this up" and pointed to the organ...sweet
wolliamcrift 2 years ago
Mmmmmm - so f****n cool and vibrating!
BillyBoysing 2 years ago
the guitar intro by MacLaughlin is powerful, imagine if Jimi Hendrix was alive with Miles,THE REVOLUTION OF THE CENTURY.
dannpenn 3 years ago
Damn Miles is really playing great on this track...with Authority and Force...It sounds excellent, cant stop listening to this track...Cant believe it has taken me this long to hear music of this caliber...
Dr77Funkenstein 3 years ago
God, one of the only periods in which Miles made some music you couldn't just listen to, but had to dance with. Amazing, had great fun with this.
tkgawa 3 years ago
"Jack Johnson"
andhakari 3 years ago
excellent...that rhythm section is amazing...Thats cobham on this track? I have his "spectrum" album, revolutionary
Dr77Funkenstein 3 years ago
A classic! Puts to shame most of the crap made these days.
Soulnik 3 years ago 4
whats the name of that album???
its amazing stuff
thanx
JeanPaul1964 3 years ago
A Tribute to Jack Johnson (from 1971).
AnthonyCoffeecake 3 years ago
ahh thank u very much!!!!
JeanPaul1964 3 years ago
Hope they are goin' to play this at my funeral...thx dude!
sangoor22 3 years ago 2
play yesternow
gonzocaine 3 years ago
lol My pleasure sangoor.
bayridgegroove 3 years ago
That Bb7 sus4 over the E vamp is awesome!
railcar123 3 years ago
This was my first Miles album!
bringoutdafreilach 3 years ago
just a year removed from bitches brew, and so entirely different. this my first time hearing this. it kind of reminds me of the meters.
glib11 3 years ago
great tribute to Jimi Hendrix by Maclaughlin.
dannpenn 3 years ago
what's with this Jimi Hendrix stuff?
...you're Talking about JOHN MCLAUGHLIN!
The guy was so break out incredible that Miles named a song after him on BITCHES BREW!
...HELLO
timages13 2 years ago
no problem, John Mac Laughlin is a legend,a great guitar hero,but don't forget the spirit of Jimi hendrix,the intro of "right off" by Mac Laughlin,is for me a great tribute to Jimi Hendrix, where's the problem??for sure Mac Laughlin is one of the greatest guitarist of all time.
dannpenn 2 years ago
You're absolutely right Hendrix is their inspiration, but if you knew how many different chords and chords structures John McLaughlin is using in this piece the comparison with Hendrix would end right there.
Hendrix like Miles said himself in his biography was basically just a blues guitarist, and Davis's whole idea was to take Rock music and have it played by great musicians.
...enter John McLaughlin, Herbie Hancock, and the rest.
timages13 2 years ago 2
This is Mile's Art Rock statement...before there was such a thing. Leave it to Miles to start something new. When he gets it going listen to McLaughlin in the background...the bass and drum groove...it just kills me!
timages13 3 years ago
/watch?v=7eVXhgrUEnI
reginr 3 years ago
I bought this album for McLaughlin and Cobham but this is where I first fell in love with the playing of Steve Grossman who became very important to me. Grossman's solo (which occurs after this video fades out) is pure heaven.
Soamsey 3 years ago
Nice to hear you give the sax man some!
Thanks for your comments.
bayridgegroove 3 years ago
Magauphlins work in Trio of doom is very similar to this, a little more up beat faster and the drums are a bit more swing, But the guitaring is very similar. I love everything about this number they have put together.
shockson55 3 years ago
the bass and drum groove really does it for me, you would have to be pretty lame to play something bad over it.
shinybald36 3 years ago
but you would have to be miles to play that over it :)
demandango 3 years ago
correction-the seamless and intuitive synergy captured here.
bayridgegroove 3 years ago
Sometimes the whole doesn't equal the sum of it's parts; sure you can think of talented people,and so and so would have sounded better etc. But you know what? Any team of jazz all stars would have been hard pressed to match the dynamics,but more importantly, the seamless and intuitive symmetry captured here.
bayridgegroove 3 years ago
Miles est le meilleur musiciens du monde, tout le monde peut aller se coucher, quel style, quel prestence, c'est impressionnant
franoise2 3 years ago
Musicians (or even people) that "get it" study this recording note for note. Musicians that dont "get it", this record doesnt make sense to them. Sort of separates the adventurous thinkers from the lameos.If you are ever playing with someone new and you want to get a feel for where they stand, ask them about this recording.
railcar123 3 years ago
From 7:00 on is Miles at his very best,with his sublime catalytic bursts ending the tape.
And a good call charliehungerford related to 8:26+, maybe the coolest most potent riff I've heard to date.
bayridgegroove 3 years ago
My favourite bit is 8.26 - 8.32. It's the sound of comforting entropy. It's a truly cosmic piece of playing.
Miles 69-73 is my favourite ever music. Closely followed by Krautrock band Can on the albums Tago Mago, Ege Bamyasi and Future Days. Does anyone else feel that Can and Miles were drinking from the same improv funk electronic cosmic psychedelic well at this point? And why is no-one doing music like this now? Even the good stuff these days is tedious compared with this.
charliehungerford 3 years ago
it's wonderful
franoise2 3 years ago
All of a sudden,after all this time since I posted the vid in May, I am now hearing this in stereo! Unbelievable.
bayridgegroove 3 years ago
McLaughlin is dynamite on this. Thank you for posting.
fidomusic 3 years ago
You're very welcome fidomusic.
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chiclorio 3 years ago
This is paint peeling guitar, forced to be percussive because Miles was such a strict and demanding angry son of a bitch. Whoever posted this thing gets acase of the finest.
molloyx 3 years ago
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And because Mclaughlin is edgy and spikey naturally. He loves it. This is his groove.
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arimamiyazawa 3 years ago
I believe I read where Miles told Maclaughlin to "play like you dont know how to play" for his solo at the very end of this side. (Not heard on this upload)
railcar123 3 years ago
That's very interesting.You know this whole groove is not what they had practiced the night before in preparing for the "Right Off" studio recording.When the musicians began to strap up to record this at the studio,a brash McLaughlin started to warm up with the beginning of the groove-Miles heard it,and after several takes, rolled with John's new impromtu version.
bayridgegroove 3 years ago
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Nah, that is from In a Silent Way, hear the original version of the extended sessions and then hear the standard version after JM was instructed. He plays like he doesn't know how. And it is beautiful. This session was later.
mygransbeaver 3 years ago
Incredible, can't thank you enough for posting this. But dammit now you've made me buy the album.
Brock2097 3 years ago
lol Brock You know I had the original album,played the hell out of it,then lost track of it after I moved.Then, in the mid-Eighties, I found a new factory sealed LP in a discount shop. It's now a well protected keeper!
newyorkclambake 3 years ago
FINALLY someone posted this!!! awesome! thank you jimbo. work can be cool now.
jaydorman 3 years ago
You are welcome jaydorman. I have a new account now but will keep posting these gems!
newyorkclambake 3 years ago
That b5 Miles plays at 5:04-5:05 is awesome!
railcar123 3 years ago
awesome !!!!
realmadridvideos 3 years ago
Yeah Jimbo mentioned Miles' electic stuff to me recently. Since Jimbo isn't lame i knew i should take a listen.......this is good sh...t!
I love Billy Cobham but i think he would be better suited in his hard-core jazz genre' than here. This seems like music built just for a Buddy Miles and.....Jimbo too!
Ummm Elvin Jones would have had a party on this song too.
Thanx Jimbo.
madero111 3 years ago
Madero-I do respect your history as a working jazz drummer and traditional jazz fan,but this ensemble turned out to be the perfect creative storm! And to think that Henderson and Grossman were only 18 and 19 years old respectively when they cut this track is nothing short of AMAZING!
jimbosity002 3 years ago
This album is a master class in playing "outside" the box!
railcar123 3 years ago
this man has had the greatest influence of all on my music.
blahman178 3 years ago
The multi disc set of this session is amazing. This session probably cemented the collaboration between McLaughlin and Cobham.
dorian411 3 years ago
Thanks for your comment and I'm going to look into the CD set since I only have the original LP.
jimbosity002 3 years ago
McLaughlin is other-worldly.
ScooterNerd 3 years ago 2
miles was always steps ahead, reinventing himself seemingly with every release-
maida1982a 3 years ago 3
Very true and since he was very impressed with Jimi Hendrix,even inviting Buddy Miles to the Jack Johnson Sessions, his probable collaboration with Jimi would have been one for the ages!
jimbosity002 3 years ago
Just read on a music blog site that Miles was indeed scheduled to join Jimi Hendrix in a band that would have also included Tony Williams on drums and Paul McCartney on bass.
jimbosity002 3 years ago
that would have been totally SICK!!! in MILES, miles says that jimi and himself jammed at his home on several occasions. someone has those tapes...either his estate or columbia. i hope i live to see the day that they are released in some fashion...until then.
great post by the way!!! check out 'the little blue frog (alt)'.
jaydorman 3 years ago
Talk about "super sessions",but with their egos weighing in, I can't see more than one album.But what an album!The mind reels with the thought!.Pleasure posting this by the way.
jimbosity002 3 years ago
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I seriously doubt Jimi had much ego, especially when playing with Miles. It's not for nothing Jimi started getting Jazz lessons just before he died. His sessions with JM would have shown him the work required.
mygransbeaver 3 years ago
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Stanley Clarke would have been better.
mygransbeaver 3 years ago
Most kick-ass guitar riff of all time.
worldwideput 3 years ago 5
You bet! It seems to me that John and Miles brought out the best in one another.
jimbosity002 3 years ago
no i meant his organ solo isn't on this clip.
123BubberMiley 3 years ago
copy that and thks.
jimbosity002 3 years ago
Thanks for putting this up. It's one of my favorite Miles jams. I was fortunate enough to get to see Miles a few years after this in '74 I believe. He had Michael Henderson still playing bass for him. Miles was mesmerizing. I'm so glad I got to experience him live.
evets530 3 years ago 2
Miles is great live.Caught him at the pier around 1990 or so.But what grabbed my attention early on in this track was the rock like groove and John Mclaughlin's licks off of it.When it first came out, I had never heard anything so cool.
jimbosity002 3 years ago
You were lucky to see him; he died the next year. I tried 3 times in the 70s and he only showed to the one gig. I always thought John was totally unique here. He never played quite like this on anything else. It sounds like Miles played him Sly
Thanku4letinmebemiceelfagin & told him to riff like that. That and James Bond theme music. Agree it's too bad Herbie comes later & didn't make this edit.
evets530 3 years ago 2
Thks for your sharp feedback.I think we agree that the recording was magical,being able to merge genres so easily like this, and the dynamics,energy,groove and synergy were unreal!
jimbosity002 3 years ago
evets530 you were right on the money with Miles's tie with Sly as a project influence,as my research indicated that Miles wanted Sly's Sing a Simple Song as the project template. Kudos man!
jimbosity002 3 years ago