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MILES DAVIS

BIG FUN

DOUBLE VINYL LP

Big Fun presents music from three different phases of Miles Davis's early-seventies "electric" period.

Sides one and four ("Great Expectations/Orange Lady" and "Lonely Fire") were recorded three months after the Bitches Brew sessions and incorporate sitar, tambura, tabla, and other Indian instruments. They also mark the first time since the beginning of Miles Davis's electric period that he played his trumpet with the Harmon mute which had been one of his hallmarks, making it sound much like the sitar. This contributed to creating a very clear and lean sound, highlighting both the high and low registers, as opposed to the busier sound of Bitches Brew which placed more emphasis on the middle and low registers.

"Ife" was recorded after the 1972 On the Corner sessions, and the framework is similar to tracks from that record. It has a drum and electric bass groove (which in fact at one point breaks down due to mistiming) and a plethora of musicians improvising individually and in combinations over variations on the hypnotic bassline.

 
1. Great Expectations

   Bass – Ron Carter

   Bass [Fender] – Harvey Brooks

   Bass Clarinet – Bennie Maupin

   Drums – Billy Cobham

   Electric Guitar – John McLaughlin

   Electric Piano – Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock

   Percussion – Airto Moreira

   Sitar [Electric], Tambura – Bihari Sharma, Khalil Balakrishna

   Soprano Saxophone – Steve Grossman

   Trumpet – Miles Davis

   27:34

2. Ife

   Bass – Michael Henderson

   Clarinet, Flute – Bennie Maupin

   Drums – Al Foster, William Hart*

   Percussion [African] – Mtume*

   Piano – Lonnie Smith

   Piano, Sitar – Harold "Ivory" Williams

   Soprano Saxophone – Carlos Garnett

   Soprano Saxophone, Flute – Sonny Fortune

   Tabla – Badal Roy

   Trumpet – Miles Davis

   21:33

3. Go Ahead John

   Bass – Dave Holland

   Drums – Jack DeJohnette

   Guitar – John McLaughlin

   Saxophone – Steve Grossman

   Trumpet – Miles Davis

   28:26

4. Lonely Fire

   Bass – Dave Holland

   Bass [Fender] – Harvey Brooks

   Bass Clarinet – Bennie Maupin

   Drums – Billy Cobham, Jack DeJohnette

   Electric Piano – Chick Corea

   Electric Piano , Organ [Farfisa] – Joe Zawinul

   Instruments [Indian] – Airto Moreira, Khalil Balakrishna

   Saxophone – Wayne Shorter

   Trumpet – Miles Davis

   21:21

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