Negative Reviews for Miles Davis in a Silent Way

Review by ravnspore May 22, 2003 (1 of 1 found this review helpful)	Functioning: Sonics:
Another classic from Miles. A demanding heed for some - maybe, with information technology's ultra long tracks. With iii keyboardists, i guitar role player, one saxophonist plus drums and bass and non forgetting Miles, it is virtually a "big" band, but the playing is - every bit the title suggests - very deadening and intimate. In surround it is very prissy experience with Corea, Zawinul and Hancock floating around each corner and Miles, Shorter and McLaughlin upward front. Make sure you have a good heart-speaker to capeesh the fine work of Miles and Wayne. Sonically information technology will prove it's age, simply considering that, it is nevertheless worth four stars. The performances though are elevation notch.
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Review by vonwegen September eleven, 2003 (vii of 7 found this review helpful)	Performance: Sonics:
My beginning & favorite Miles Davis anthology, this is great for driving. Likewise bad Sony or Philips isn't curently developing any SACD environs motorcar systems at the moment. One annotation: there are obviously two different versions of this SACD, both with identical 5.1 mixes (which audio nifty, BTW, especially the 3 keyboards and their sonic positions)--merely with different stereo mixes. Nigh review copies sent to magazines had the re-mixed stereo mix done by Bob Weldon & Mark Wilder when the CD version was issued several months ago. My copy has the original stereo mix from the vinyl issue--you can hear how the multiple splices Teo Macero & Miles did have deteriorated in sonic quality--one splice in particular, at x:42 into Shh/Peaceful, is especially noticeable because the mixdown record has a big drop-out due to tape crinkle. Too the closing fadeouts at the stop of both sides of vinyl are evidently much cruder and quite abrupt considering the faders on the mixing lath at Columbia Studios were not virtually every bit sensitive equally the ones in use today--vinyl of course covered that up because about people didn't have the equipment to reveal such sonic 'problems'. It's actually quite fun to compare the quondam stereo mix with the 5.i one--shows how much DSD applied science has brought us.
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Review past madisonears September 6, 2004 (1 of ane found this review helpful)	Performance: Sonics:
Accented music. These are not bebop or gratis jazz interpretations of chestnuts. This is original, pure music. There is no theme, definitely no lyrics, and even close to no structure, but the music is universal, almost familiar, arousing yet soothing some primitive recess of one's consciousness. This music gets in your head and puts you in a place that yous might not become to without hearing it. That, to me, is the best kind of jazz; indeed, the best kind of music, period. The sound is terrific, with merely a few reminders of its vintage status.
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Review by eesau February 2, 2005 (ane of 6 institute this review helpful)	Performance: Sonics:
Howdy, music is superb but why exercise they make multi-channel mixes similar this? Where does the drummer play? Somewhere on the left paw side only nowhere special and he changes position when you turn you head ... Oh boy ... Sony/Columbia should not make multi-channels out of their sometime material at all. All Dylan and Miles multi-channel mixes suck. Avoid them. The stereo version is very skilful ... but I've had it already as CD for nearly two decades ... so this was not a good investment at all.
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Review by DeSelby February xiii, 2005 (1 of three found this review helpful)	Sonics:
stereo sonics: Davis plugged in. Bang-up!
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Review by JW September xiv, 2006 (ane of 2 institute this review helpful)	Functioning: Sonics:
2 tracks. That's all. This music sounds as if information technology floats in a iii-dimensional infinite. Miles' trumpet has tremendous bite merely never distorts. The electric piano can misconstrue a little on some of the overtones, but not by much. Well layered soundstage. Infectuous rythmns past Tony Williams on drums underpin the whole thing. Yup, the bass is muddy/woolly - as observed in a higher place past another reviewer. And it has tape hiss. Straight ahead jazz fans beware. This is Miles in electronic and improvisational - though not experimental - course. Not angular, no counterpoints, merely it is a piddling gratis grade although information technology stops well curt of complimentary jazz in my opinion. Nicely flowing. And very interesting, especially track 1. Track ii is monotonous until about 8m.30s into information technology, so it gets going with Dave Kingdom of the netherlands laying downward some very cool (electronic) bass patterns. But you lot know, 2 tracks and 38 minutes is enough. Jw
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Review by Jijagua May 13, 2011 (four of 4 institute this review helpful)	Performance: Sonics:
Extraordinary - in multi-channel SACD. I'll go to that afterward. The stereo sound was very skillful, with each instrument clearly located from left to right. There was some hiss due to the age of the recording, simply it become non-consequential when the music started playing. The audio-stage was very wide. I heard details too as with any of the all-time recordings I've heard. Every musical instrument was piece of cake to individually pick out (yous could point to it with your optics airtight). The dynamics and clarity were offset rate. Each instrument sounded similar information technology actually should. Every bit for the performance, I am putting it close to "Nighttime Side of the Moon" (which is my favorite album of all time, in all categories combined). Seeing as I've had "In a Silent Way" for two days, I hope to arrive easy to understand how strongly I rate this album. The music is wonderful jazz fusion, simply non so electro-guitar heavy as his later stuff. This is truly an intermediate anthology - between before relaxed jazz, and the later psychedelically-laden, guitar heavy stuff. Information technology'due south definitely a relaxed album that seems to flow very nicely. Information technology's not fast, nor is it slow, simply some mellow place in between. My only complaint is that this is a brusque anthology. Apparently, these Japanese SACD factories are focusing on the album itself and non adding in whatsoever bonus content. Nevertheless, I think they could accept bundled this album with another on this one disk. At present for the multi-channel SACD. I listened through headphones and the experience was extraordinary. Not simply did each of the players occupy a certain space from left-to-correct, but there was a thickness to each player. Basically, the players surrounded my skull, with each one taking up a 3D space of its own - I'd say the shape was something like a football game in my mind. Besides, this mellow album seemed to "period" - sometimes the menses would get from front to dorsum, so side to side, and sometimes static. There was besides less hiss than the stereo version. Even the instruments sounded cleaner in the multi-channel version. At somewhere around $fifty a pop, it seems similar I am going to take to get every Miles Davis album in SACD multi-channel (if I can). After listening to this anthology, it is articulate how much I've been missing by only listening to the stereo versions. I should have learned this with Nighttime Side of the Moon, but it is ever and so axiomatic afterwards listening to "In a Silent Fashion".
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