YO MILES! Lightning, by Henry Kaiser, Wadada Leo Smith

YO MILES! Lightning

by Henry Kaiser, Wadada Leo Smith

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1.	Thunder and Lightning 21:24
2.	Cozy Pete 12:33
3.	Macero 03:35	buy track
4.	Still Sunrise (Live) 02:41	buy track
5.	Tsapiky Frelimo (Live) 14:29
6.	Miles Dewey Davis III - Great Ancestor 08:19	buy track

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What Kaiser and Smith have demonstrated with the Yo Miles! project, above all, is that the jazz fusion idiom essentially created by Davis (with a little help from his early collaborators and some inspiration from rock and funk influences such as Jimi Hendrix and James Brown) was a great vehicle for creative playing, providing possibilities both for tight, funky ensemble work à la Brown and extended collaborative improvisations. Of course, musical second-raters subsequently rode jazz fusion into the ground, but the Yo Miles! cast demonstrates that the form itself is still vital when it's in the right hands. Kaiser and Smith shine, as usual. Smith, who was once dismissed as a cerebral jazz intellectual, is ebullient and expansive throughout.

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released September 28, 2010

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Henry Kaiser San Francisco, California

Henry Kaiser is an American guitarist and composer, known as an idiosyncratic soloist, a sideman, an ethnomusicologist, and a film score composer. Recording and performing prolifically in many styles of music, Kaiser is a fixture on the San Francisco Bay Area music scene. He is considered a member of the "second generation" of American free improvisers. ... more

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