Nefertiti

[Ron Party]

I'm sitting here in my office listening to Miles' Nefertiti (in DSD)



and am enjoying it quite a bit. All-star line up for sure. We tend to hear significantly more about other albums by Miles. Just wondering what some of the bop-heads here think about the music on this album?

 

[jazdoc]

Along with ESP, of my favorite 'middle' period Miles

 

[mep]

I have this LP and will have to play it again. I don't remember being terribly excited about it on first play.

 

[Cascais]

Miles Davis pushing the envelope and what a quintet, with Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter on bass and Tony Williams on drums. This kind of jazz is an acquired taste, for me anyway, for those who like Kind of Blue. The rhythms are slower and languid, and the solo lines are long and unhurried. I am a fan of Shorter's ts, and love the cymbal splashes by Williams. One of my favorite Miles Davis works of the middle period when he was at his peak IMHO. This is jazz as abstract art. Great stuff and great sound.

 

[Orb]

Miles Davis pushing the envelope and what a quintet, with Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter on bass and Tony Williams on drums. This kind of jazz is an acquired taste, for me anyway, for those who like Kind of Blue. The rhythms are slower and languid, and the solo lines are long and unhurried. I am a fan of Shorter's ts, and love the cymbal splashes by Williams. One of my favorite Miles Davis works of the middle period when he was at his peak IMHO. This is jazz as abstract art. Great stuff and great sound.

Great write up.
Cheers
Orb

 

[mep]

So I did break out this LP and listen to it again as a result of this thread and I have to say I liked it much the better this time than I did the first time. I find the music compelling to listen to which I didn't the first time I heard it.

 

[Cascais]

So I did break out this LP and listen to it again as a result ol this thread and I have to say I liked it much the better this time than I did the first time. I find the music compelling to listen to which I didn't the first time I heard it.

I played Nefertiti again today also but on CD and enjoyed it as usual. It has a dreamy, almost hypnotic quality as the band goes about its business, with Williams' percussion keeping the soloists grounded. It's certainly not swinging jazz but more abstract in nature and an acquired taste as it took me years to appreciate Nefertiti. However, it's about as far out as I go since I haven't delved into Bitches Brew or Jack Johnson yet. Maybe that's a new topic, for the more adventurous.

 

[mep]

I played Nefertiti again today also but on CD and enjoyed it as usual. It has a dreamy, almost hypnotic quality as the band goes about its business, with Williams' percussion keeping the soloists grounded. It's certainly not swinging jazz but more abstract in nature and an acquired taste as it took me years to appreciate Nefertiti. However, it's about as far out as I go since I haven't delved into Bitches Brew or Jack Johnson yet. Maybe that's a new topic, for the more adventurous.

I thought it was a touch too much abstract for me the first time I heard it. Maybe it was my mood at the time or maybe it was my recent new gear (we do share a line stage in common), but it just sounded very much more engaging to me this time.

 

[Cascais]

I thought it was a touch too much abstract for me the first time I heard it. Maybe it was my mood at the time or maybe it was my recent new gear (we do share a line stage in common), but it just sounded very much more engaging to me this time.

Certain music takes a while to get into and that usually is the kind that stays with you, presenting a challenge to your usual listening habits. Davis gets more challenging as you go from the early 1950s to Kind of Blue to Nefertiti and beyond. In the same way, one day you want Mozart and another day Prokofiev. We both have a Ref 5se, although I stay away from tube power amps because of tube anxiety and the heat factor. I bought a Ref 5 and flipped it for a Ref 5se - great piece to use - and couple that with a darTZeel NHB 108.

 

[mep]

Cascais-One of the things that attracted me to the REF 75 after owning plenty of tube amps that use lots of output tubes per channel is the fact they only use two output tubes per channel. It's much easier to maintain a pair of output tubes per channel and cheaper to replace them when the time comes compared to tube amps with two or more pairs per channel.

 

[Cascais]

Cascais-One of the things that attracted me to the REF 75 after owning plenty of tube amps that use lots of output tubes per channel is the fact they only use two output tubes per channel. It's much easier to maintain a pair of output tubes per channel and cheaper to replace them when the time comes compared to tube amps with two or more pairs per channel.

I've heard the Ref 100 and 150 but never the Ref 75. For me that would be the most practical ARC tube amp which is an important consideration. The 2000 hours recommended tube life comes around pretty quickly. But I am very satisfied with the ss darTZeel.

 

[24bit]

Along with ESP, of my favorite 'middle' period Miles

+1
and so nice with that clear placement of the instruments; piano left, drums right, horns in the middle, you rarely hear that anymore.

see link;

Rediscovering the Miles Davis Quintet.

By Adam Shatz

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jazz/1998/05/jazz_democracy.html