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Miles in the Sky

Miles in the Sky
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Studio album by Miles Davis
Released July 22, 1968
Recorded January 16 and May 15–17, 1968
Studio Columbia Studio B in New York
Genre Post-bop, jazz fusion
Length 50:56
Label Columbia
Producer Teo Macero
Miles Davis chronology
Nefertiti
(1968)
Miles in the Sky
(1968)
Filles de Kilimanjaro
(1968)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 3.5/5 stars
Down Beat 4.5/5 stars
The Rolling Stone Album Guide 3.5/5 stars
Sputnikmusic 4/5
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide 4/5 stars

Miles in the Sky is a studio album by American trumpeter and composer Miles Davis, released on July 22, 1968, by Columbia Records.

Miles in the Sky was produced by Teo Macero and recorded at Columbia Studio B in New York City on January 16, 1968, and May 15–17, 1968. For the album, Davis played with tenor saxophonist Wayne Shorter, pianist Herbie Hancock, drummer Tony Williams, and bassist Ron Carter. Guitarist George Benson made a guest appearance on the song "Paraphernalia". The album's title was a nod to the Beatles' 1967 song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds".

For Miles in the Sky, Davis and his quintet pulled further away from conventional jazz and more toward jazz-rock fusion. The album's compositions are extended and groove-oriented, and mostly have rhythms with simple 4
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time signatures from rock music, which are embellished by Hancock's electric piano. According to All About Jazz's C. Michael Bailey, Miles in the Sky is one of six albums by Davis' quintet between 1965 and 1968 that introduced the poorly defined jazz subgenre post-bop.

In a contemporary review, Down Beat magazine called Miles in the Sky one of the best albums by Davis and his second quintet because of how it shows he had been influenced by Ornette Coleman and John Coltrane: "even as Miles denies it, for their assault on the popular song has pushed Miles along the only path that seems open to him, an increasingly ironic detachment from sentiment and prettiness".


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