Studio recordings of the miles davis quintet, 1965-68, Waters, Keith

Treating six different studio recordings in depth--ESP, Miles Smiles, Sorcerer, Nefertiti, Miles in the Sky, and Filles de Kilimanjaro--Waters has tracked down a host of references to and explications of Davis work. His analysis takes into account contemporary reviews of the recordings, interviews
with the five musicians, and relevant larger-scale cultural studies of the era, as well as two previously unexplored sources: the studio outtakes and Wayne Shorters Library of Congress composition deposits. Only recently made available, the outtakes throw the master takes into relief, revealing
how the musicians and producer organized and edited the material to craft a unified artistic statement for each of these albums. The authors research into the Shorter archives proves to be of even broader significance and interest, as Waters is able now to demonstrate the composers original
conception of a given piece. Waters also points out errors in the notated versions of the canonical songs as they often appear in the main sources available to musicians and scholars. An indispensible resource, The Miles Davis Quintet Studio Recordings: 1965-1968 is suited for the jazz scholar as
well as for jazz musicians and aficionados of all levels.