Rubberband / Miles Davis.
Material type:
MusicPublisher number: R2 599464 | Warner Records/Rhino603497850785 | Warner Records/RhinoPublisher: Los Angeles, CA : Warner Records/Rhino, [2019]Copyright date: ℗2019Description: 1 audio disc : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 inContent type: - performed music
- audio
- audio disc
- Rubber band
- Producers: Randy Hall, Attala Zane Giles, Vince Wilburn, Jr., except "Rubberband" produced by Miles Davis, Randy Hall, Attala Zane Giles.
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult CD
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Northport Library | CD | JAZZ Davis, Miles | Available | 33111009528577 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Before Miles Davis recorded Tutu as his debut offering for Warner Bros., he worked on a funky, jazz-pop-vocal project called Rubberband in North Hollywood over a three-month period in late 1985 and early 1986. While co-producers Randy Hall and Attala Zane Giles felt satisfied, Warner Jazz boss Tommy LiPuma was less enthusiastic. It was ultimately shelved. Davis performed some of its tunes live, and later, trumpet parts from the sessions were grafted onto "Fantasy" and "High Speed Chase" for the posthumously released Doo-Bop. Rubberband is almost thoroughly reinvented from the original tapes with full cooperation from the Davis estate, and guided by Davis' nephew and drummer Vince Wilburn, Jr., who played on the original sessions. The bookend tracks are both high points: "Rubberband of Life" with Ledisi, and a remixed version of the title track (featuring a nasty Mike Stern guitar break), were previously issued on a limited five-track EP. Davis' trumpet playing is the album's real boon. He's quite active, delivering funky vamps, mysterious lyricism, and sometimes meaty solos; check his beguiling fills on "So Emotional," a fine modern soul ballad featuring vocalist Lalah Hathaway. On the punky funk of "Give It Up," he's mixed far above the band. The Prince-cum-James Brown-inspired jam is all the better for it. "Paradise" -- a funky calypso number complete with the sound of synthed steel drums -- finds him trilling against layers of percussion punctuated by swampy basslines and acoustic and electric lead guitar as Medina Johnson's vocal cascades in from the margins. The angular funk of "This Is It" (inspired by Scritti Politti) is all vamp; Miles' playing is casually slotted between synth layers and screaming guitar solos. "Carnival Time" is a mashup of fusion and smooth jazz punctuated by Latin percussion with a lovely harmonic sense. "See I See" smokes: co-written by keyboardist Adam Holzman, it's easily recognizable as the kind of swaggering funk Davis was playing live at the time. The long "Echoes in Time/The Wrinkle" atmospherically features Davis on dueling keyboards with Holzman playing distorted, jagged vamps supplemented by fills from his horn. It sets up "Rubberband" as the smoking closer and session highlight. There are some truly weighty grooves and a few hip tunes in this dense, hip-hop styled mix. ~ Thom Jurek
The "lost Miles Davis album," finished by the original producers, Randy Hall and Zane Giles, and Davis' nephew, Vince Wilburn, Jr.
Title from disc label.
Principally written by Miles Davis, in part with others.
Program notes by George Cole (16 unnumbered pages : portraits (some color)) inserted in container.
Rubberband of life (featuring Ledisi) -- This is it -- Paradise (featuring Medina Johnson) -- So emotional (featuring Lalah Hathaway) -- Give it up -- Maze -- Carnival time / Neil Larsen -- I love what we make together (featuring Randy Hall) -- See I see -- Echoes in time / Miles Davis ; The wrinkle / Wayne Linsey, Randy Hall, Attala Zane Giles -- Rubberband.
Producers: Randy Hall, Attala Zane Giles, Vince Wilburn, Jr., except "Rubberband" produced by Miles Davis, Randy Hall, Attala Zane Giles.
Miles Davis, trumpet ; with assisting musicians.
Original tracks
Miles Davis originally began recording this album in 1985. It marked a radical departure from his usual sound with the inclusion of funk and soul grooves. However, it was shelved and left unheard and untouched for 30 years. Now it has been completed.