Miles Davis - A Tribute To Jack Johnson 1971 (remaster) 320kb/s

Ripped at 320kb/s in TRUE STEREO. Please stop using Joint Stereo people! It's in your iTunes ripping options, and it's turned on by default. Miles Davis A Tribute to Jack Johnson Columbia/Legacy Released 1971, Reissued 2005 Well, here it is, finally: the Miles Davis album A Tribute to Jack Johnson , newly remastered. I've looked for this album on torrent for ages, and finally I gave in and bought it. It was worth every penny. Hope you'll agree. For the uninitiated, let us state that the real substance of Jack Johnson was recorded on April 7th, 1970 by what was, compared to the lineups that made Bitches Brew, a skeleton crew of a band. There are two songs, each originally one side of a vinyl record: "Right Off" and "Yesternow", each about twenty-five minutes long. The music was recorded for the soundtrack of a documentary about boxer Jack Johnson, a black celebrity many years ahead of his time in terms of fearlessness and ostentation; obviously, someone Miles could relate to. The album, unlike Bitches Brew , sold poorly upon its initial release, lost in a flurry of new electric Miles Davis albums and for the first time, competing fusion releases, often by former Miles sidemen. Jack Johnson is a tremendous album, and in its particular concentration of biting, staccato rock (if this is rock/jazz fusion, rock is winning), it's unique in Miles' body of work. If it was meant to break through to rock audiences, it failed, and of course it did: while this is loud, amplified, improvisational music, it's too harsh and perhaps too black-sounding for fans of the Grateful Dead or the Charles Lloyd Quartet. And to me, Jack Johnson sounds best divorced from the various sections of recorded sessions that produced it. Wading through the hours of studio time that fill The Complete Jack Johnson Sessions or The Complete Bitches Brew Sessions, or The Complete In a Silent Way Sessions is fascinating, but to these ears, just blunts the impact of the actual albums. It compromises their mystery, like seeing the sawdust, discarded costumes and bored Teamsters backstage at a play. Personnel: Miles Davis: trumpet; Steve Grossman: soprano saxophone; Herbie Hancock: organ; John McLaughlin: electric guitar; Michael Henderson: electric bass; Billy Cobham: drums; Sonny Sharrock (uncredited, #2 only): electric guitar Track Listing: 1. Right Off 2. Yesternow

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Strick (2007-08-23)

I got this one o vinyl but haven´t listened to it since my vinyl player crashed lotsa years ago... a super album, thank you!

NeverTheSame (2007-08-24)

Awesome dude! Glad it made you happy. Apparently they're gonna be releasing a 5 CD box set in the next month or two of the Complete Recording sessions that led to this record.
This is, hands down, my favorite Miles record from the Fusion era, possibly my favorite of all.

beardog69 (2007-11-30)

Thanks mate, been after this for ages!

ceddieboy (2007-12-15)

First, Awesome torrent! Love the CD and info!
But why the hating on joint stereo? It has no barring on the sound its just a more smarter compression scheme. I always use JS with VBR set to min and max when I am doing lossy compression.
If you really wish to impress try offering a lossless encode, preferably FLAC, next time!
Ced

NeverTheSame (2008-02-28)

Summarized from Wikipedia:
"There are two kinds of joint stereo:
Intensity stereo coding uses a technique known as joint frequency encoding, which functions on the principle of sound localization. Human hearing is predominantly less acute at perceiving the direction of certain audio frequencies. By exploiting this 'limitation', intensity stereo coding can reduce the data rate of an audio stream with little or no perceived change in apparent quality.
M/S stereo coding transforms the left and right channels into a mid channel and a side channel, hence the name. The mid channel is the sum of the left and right channels, or L + R. The side channel is the difference of the left and right channels, i.e., L ? R."
In both cases, it is modifying the original stereo image to something new. I prefer to hear the record the way the artists/producers intended.

gabell26 (2008-06-18)

Thank you. I've never been listening something like this. It's really great.

jaqdo (2011-01-12)

Thank you not only for uploading but also for ripping at 320 kbps.