A Guide to MILES DAVIS Part II / Sketches of Spain - Death 

Damn you really covered all 4 stages of life. Birth, Kind of Blue, Sketches of Spain, and death.

Death is my favourite Miles Davis album

Probably your best work. Such an immense amount of music to talk about, add on the fact that jazz is a rather difficult genre to speak about in detail, but you managed to cover it wonderfully! One of the best musicians ever, great guide

Ok I’ll listen to Miles Davis

Would you ever consider doing a Scott Walker guide? His career path is so interesting I would love to hear you talk about it.

This is my absolute favourite series on yt

If I were teaching music appreciation to a crowded classroom, I would duct tape my stupid mouth shut & show you to the podium. Another brilliant (and, yes - MESMERIC!) breakdown of a legendary discography. I've been listening to all kinds of music for my 63 years, and I have to say, from all I've heard & read thru the decades...Oliver, you & your enthusiasm take the cake. Your entire "Deep Cuts" series is "The Perfect Drug" ("wink wink, nudge nudge" - cue up NIN!). Please enjoy your time off. We'll be right here waiting for your return.

yeah i'm a madlad, what are you gonna do?

I'd suggest "A Guide to Frank Zappa"

I'm a diehard Coltrane fan. But, his Second Great Quintet is probably my favorite era of Miles. It's so intense and dark and wild. It's amazing.

On the Corner is a beast of an album

Miles might be my favorite artist of all time. I'm so happy you made these videos, you really did him justice :)

This is probably your best guide yet. Miles evolution in his discography is fucking incredible. You should do a future guide on a band like Kraftwerk or The Cure

A J Dilla or Madlib video could be interesting. They both have some pretty dense and diverse discographies

Oliver, you're the best. I was in the shower just the other day listening to Solar because you shined a light on its history and I thought to myself "I wonder when deepcuts is gonna release part 2" THANK YOU!!!

I see Girl In A Band in the book collection, hopefully that means the SY guide is coming soon!

This has set me off into a massive Miles Davis obsession. Ordered In a Silent Way and Jack Johnson on wax, can't wait. Thanks man!

Headhunters happened in 1973. The band that Herbie started after he left Miles was the Mwandishi Band - Fat Albert Rotunda (rec. 1969), Mwandishi (rec. 1970), Crossings (rec. 1972) and Sextant (rec. 1972). These are even more legendary than the Headhunters albums.

Please do a Charles Mingus guide 🙏

god this is so well produced its unreal

Just wanted to say big thaks for all you're doing. It's amazing seeing someone, who really gives a damm, talking about what he loves you also sold me on auterche so big props for that Godspeed

The quality of this is remarkable

HOLY SHIT THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU I LOVE YOU NEVER STOP MAKING VIDEOS

I'm so glad you included Dark Magus, it's my favorite. Sounds like the Davis/Hendrix jam we never got.

I've been feeling a _kind of blue_ until this popped up in my notifications!

You madman, you’ve finally done it!!! Been waiting for this patiently since the first half, can’t wait to watch this later tonight! Thanks for all your hard work, Olly! 🙏🙇‍♂️👏✌️❤️♾

Immense and too much food for thought!!! I now need more Miles Davis vinyl.....

yaay! nice to see you are doing well. I recently find a couple of netflix documentaries on jazz musicians, including Miles, Lee Morgan and Coltrane anyhow, Mile's wife told for the documentary she barely convinced him to accompany her on seeing flamenco. right after the show they went to local store and bought every flamenco record they could

" .. those irrascable castanets." Beautiful wordplay. Love your work, my man. Please keep it up. Thank You.

I think "A Guide to Bob Dylan" would do really good

It’s a shame that this channel has been abandoned.

Hot take. On the corner is his best. The OtC sessions is amazin too

This video is nothing short of brilliant. Thank you

Can't get into his earlier, lauded coo jazz records. His 70s fusion records are my fucking jam though. On The Corner, Get Up With it... Experimental, abrasive, cool af.

Finally, YES! Great video again, Oliver. I'd love to see something like this covering Coltrane's discography.

Of course you release this just as im getting into 70s Miles Davis u absolute legend - fantastic video as always and im glad u touched on all the live releases too: dark magus is mindblowing and everyones gotta hear it imo

Love On the Corner, Big Fun deserved to be talked about more, world music before anybody knew what that meant. The box sets of the complete recordings are special, got them all. Apart from the King Crimson box sets, the most treasured things in my collection.

Love the video, but I think you should have mentioned the horrific car accident in 1972. For those who don't know, Miles broke his legs and got hooked badly on drugs after that. When he recovered his trumpet tone wasn't what it used to be, so he started playing hammond organ more and more on his records until his hiatus in '75. I think that's why Dark Magus, Miles in Concert '73 and Get Up With It are so dark and painful. He was really suffering on a daily basis.

great video, altough Shorter deserved more attention for his compositional role, that was crucial at least as Gil Evans. We're talking about a composer as important as Monk and Ellington for the previous generations, and who wrote some of the best and most sophisticated jazz tunes of the history of the genre, and some of those were played by Miles Davis, influencing deeply the sound of the band (Footprints, Sanctuary, Iris, Pinocchio, Nefertiti, Fall etc)

my boi comin through with the Live Evil love

Thanks for putting this together! 2 other live albums that came out in the early 70's are "Live at Fillmore" and "Miles Davis In Concert (at Philharmonic Hall). Both excellent and intense albums.

This was so fucking good, as always. A Guide to WEEN next??

Live Evil is one of my all time favorites. The studio recorded tracks, also arranged by Evans, are so strange and pretty. There's an overarching psychedelic strange ooze in and over them. Don't even get me started on the cover art!!

This series is fucking awesome. Great work.

On the corner was ridiculously cool

If you made it through Coltranes Ascension On The Corner should be a piece of cake. My fav will always be Blue Haze.

Brilliant video, probably one of my favorites in all of RU-vid. Although I think you underrate Nefertiti (probably my favourite album of his).

Super great day! Love this series!

I actually picked up his autobiography after realising you made this guide and finished it today. An obsessive, controversial man, but an absolute musical mastermind. Fantastic, well-researched video, Oliver! Great stuff!

It's pretty handy that whenever you upload a new video it'll be first in my recommended feed because I watch your channel so prolifically ;)

I couldn't thank you enough for this informative deep cuts. It's insane how one person was able to create handful of ground-breaking albums.

Amazing Guide Thanks Man. I've had my hands on the discography for a while but I haven't had the nerve to get started on it just cause of how long and daunting a task it seems. Probably won't got started on it for a while but knowing some of the context honestly has me itching to jump in.

Here we go. I’m going to present another request. I have thoroughly enjoyed your work. There is an artist that has somehow incredibly escaped the recognition he deserves. A maverick in his career. Making use of his producing talents of other artists to afford not following a commercially acceptable path in his own work. Every year the R&R hall of fame allows him to slip through the cracks despite accolades from his piers and loyal fans. Todd Rundgren. If you haven’t explored him yet, please start from the beginning. His path has been eclectic to say the least but sprinkled with wonderful jewels of songwriting and innovation.

Watched both parts, excellent videos!

I remember the day I listened to In A Silent Way. I bought the record and didn't know what to expect. The needle dropped and learned I was getting into some good stuff.

Saw Miles twice in the mid-80s. It was fantastic. No wonder, Prince wanted to work with him. At the very peak of his enigmatic powers, no jazz musician came even remotely close to matching him and that includes John Coltrane. Classic Miles albums :- Kind Of Blue Walkin' Cookin' Relaxin' Steamin' Milestones Porgy And Bess Sketches Of Spain My Funny Valentine ESP Miles Smiles Bitches Brew Tribute To Jack Johnson Agharta

Frances also influenced Sketches of Spain. In the recent documentary Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool, Frances talks about how she first introduced him to flamenco while they were visiting Spain. After watching a flamenco performance with Frances, Miles went straight to the record store and bought every flamenco record he could find. I’m sure this had an influence on his interest in Spanish music.

Great video. I love what Miles did in the late 60s up to the mid 70s (obviously not ignoring greats like Sketches of Spain though). Massive thank you for recommending 'Dark Magus'. Wow, what an album. I probably wouldn't have ever tried it, unless it was recommended. It went straight in my top 10 of all time. CAN have become possibly my favourite band, and this period of Miles music, for me, beautifully compliments CAN's music, though I'm only really a fan of the Damo Suzuki and Malcolm Mooney era. My fav albums CAN - Tago Mago The Fall - 'Slates' Radio Los Santos (from GTA SA) (not technically an album, but a fantastic playlist of early west-coast hip hop) The Velvet Underground & Nico XTC - Drums and Wires Dark Magus Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band CAN - Ege Bamyası The Beach Boys - Smile Rush - Moving Pictures

Auyyy!! Been waiting for this one!! Good stuff mate!!!

Thanks so much for the video, it’s fantastic. Keep up the great work Oliver!

Thanks so much for making these 2 guides. It has offered a dive into jazz I always felt I needed.

You really should have your own tv/radio slot mate, absolute quality and top-notch. You have put some hard work into this! A++👏😎🎺

Let me add how stunningly beautiful his cover artworks are. From the beautiful portraits in the earlier albums (Kind of Blue and A Silent Way are particularly full of character), to the work of Matti Klarwein during the electric period (Bitches Brew, Live-Evil and others), the almost synesthetic cover for Big Fun (I always imagine being enveloped in a trumpet "bath" such as the woman in the cover whenever I hear Miles playing in the 1st track Great Expectations), or the adorably psychedelic cover for Miles in the Sky. Come on, you know the music is great when you see a cover like that.

you're not giving "someday my prince will come", nor "seven steps" enough credit. both miles and trane's solos on "someday" are iconic. miles plays some of the most beautiful melodic improvisation of all time, with incredibly mature rhythmic and harmonic sensibility. and then trane comes in, the contrast between his solo and hank mobley's is incredibly compelling. its like 20 years of jazz history summed up in one track. and "seven steps" has some of the most technically impressive blowing miles ever recorded in the studio

The world (or me, selfishly) would love a Guide to Typhoon, out of Portland, OR. Kyle Morton and crew are writing/performing some of the most innovative/thoughtful rock music these days. Love your channel!

"get off your ass and go bloody listen to it" music reviews need to sound like this all the time.

man you should do a guide to kraftwerk, that would make for a great video!

YESSSSS you absolute legend

many of the songs on ESP are Wayne Shorter compositions. Still one of the best records ever, I love Iris.

Enjoyed the review. I’m a big Miles fan.

Fantastic video, covering the (imo) best Miles era!

The first ever Miles album I listened to was On the Corner…. That’s right… On the Corner! I started to get into jazz by the end of high school and I knew about the importance of Miles in the history of the genre, so I went to the record store (this was around the year 2000) and was immediately struck by the cover art. I was already listening to funk music so I recognized the obvious James Brown drawing and then, saw on the back that there were two 20 minute tracks and a dream lineup of musicians (I was already into Prog rock and jazz fusion so I knew some of the names). I didn’t need anything else to make up my mind so I got it and as soon as the album started I realized that this was NOTHING like what I expected… I LOVED IT!!! It wasn’t until some years later that I finally listened to Kind of Blue….

It's finally here, I can die happy

Here we go

ive been waiting for this one

Really really good, comprehensive guide. Thanks. I miss the mention of Canonball Adderley’s something’ else. It is a land mark album and worth a mention in terms of Miles contribution to jazz.

sketches of spain is great :)

Felt like I've been waiting for much longer than it was

BTW Siesta is one weird movie but the soundtrack is mesmerizing. The opening line by miles is one of the most enchanting pieces of music iv'e heard

Second great quintet years are by far the best in his discography. The interplay between all 5 of them mixed with Wayne shorter’s amazing compositions makes these so exciting. Just listen to the song esp or freedom jazz dance

Idk if you are a Prince guy but I would love to see you do a guide to Prince

let's... FUCKING go!

I often recommend Miles Runs The Voodoo Down to newcomers to fusion, the simple and infectious bassline lays a sturdy foundation for the following chaos that its easy to parse; I tell them it's like holding onto a street lamp in a hurricane. Love that track.

Ok, another artist in my list to listen

man, thanks for this stupendous effort! and I feel you about Live/Evil, it just grooves so fuckin hard

More brilliant stuff Oliver! I think you've definitely earned some time off... Miles will make yr head spin sometimes!!

BBC Four wished they made this stunning documentary.

Doesn’t Yesternow directly use In A Silent Way in the middle of the track?

incredible series! I watched both parts twice

Woa, I've been waiting for this! Thanks!

The electric Miles is my favourite part from his career and also I think the 80's era is very very good and underrated.

Great piece if work this! Thanks! Would love to see you tackle Zappa’s discography next.

do a Fishmans guide!!!!!!!!!

Great video thanks...

I love you so much Oliver, thanks

I'm usually reluctant to listen to so-called "legends" because of their massive catalogues but you made me feel like trying his music

I would like to see a guide to the Beach Boys(Brian Wilson).

Would love to see a Scott Walker or Prince guide. The former has a really interesting musical trajectory, the latter a vast and robust discography to sink your teeth into

youre the best man ty:)

amazing work watched both parts!!