Style: jazz, free jazz
Primary Emotions/Themes: Two long songs that embody patience and subtlety
Thoughts: Miles Davis needs no introduction. His career is one of the most well known in all of jazz... no in all of music. I've been wanting to get into his music more, and in doing so I picked up In A Silent Way. I had no idea what style of jazz was on display here, but if you're expecting Kind of Blue this is not it.
There are two long compositions. Both revolve around a repeating backbone with different artists taking the lead at different moments. The rhythm section usually consists of only a few notes that are repeated ad nauseum yet slowly evolving over the course of the 20 minute compositions. It's fascinating to hear.
I'm not versed well enough in jazz to know what category this fits into, but it feels free flowing and more improvised than normal... so maybe it's free jazz. I'm again not sure, but the end result here is an album that gets multiple spins every time it hits the turntable. Another fantastic album from Mr. Davis.
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