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Artist   | Miles Davis
Title    | E.S.P. (1965)

Genre    | Jazz
Source   | CDDA
Format   | Album (Remastered)
Label    | Columbia
Catalog  | 467899 2
Released | 1991
Ripped   | 2016

Quality  | 231 kbps avg at 44.1 kHz
Encoder  | Lame 3.98.4 V0
Size     | 83.71 MB

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R E L E A S E   I N F O R M A T I O N

Throughout a professional career lasting 50 years, Miles Davis
played the trumpet in a lyrical, introspective, and melodic style,
often employing a stemless Harmon mute to make his sound more
personal and intimate. But if his approach to his instrument was
constant, his approach to jazz was dazzlingly protean. To examine
his career is to examine the history of jazz from the mid-'40s to
the early '90s, since he was in the thick of almost every important
innovation and stylistic development in the music during that
period, and he often led the way in those changes, both with his own
performances and recordings and by choosing sidemen and
collaborators who forged new directions. It can even be argued that
jazz stopped evolving when Davis wasn't there to push it forward...

"ESP" marks the beginning of a revitalization for Miles Davis, as
his second classic quintet - saxophonist Wayne Shorter, pianist
Herbie Hancock, bassist Ron Carter, and drummer Tony Williams -
gels, establishing what would become their signature adventurous
hard bop. Miles had been moving toward this direction in the two
years preceding the release of "ESP" and he had recorded with
everyone outside of Shorter prior to this record, but his addition
galvanizes the group, pushing them toward music that was
recognizably bop but as adventurous as jazz's avant-garde.
Outwardly, this music doesn't take as many risks as Coltrane or
Ornette Coleman's recordings of the mid-60s, but by borrowing some
of the same theories -- a de-emphasis of composition in favor of
sheer improvisation, elastic definitions of tonality - they created
a unique sound that came to define the very sound of modern jazz.

Certainly, many musicians have returned to this group for
inspiration, but their recordings remain fresh, because they exist
at this fine dividing line between standard bop and avant. On "ESP",
they tilt a bit toward conventional hard bop (something that's
apparent toward the end of the record), largely because this is
their first effort, but the fact is, this difference between this
album and hard bop from the early '60s is remarkable. This is
exploratory music, whether it's rushing by in a flurry of notes or
elegantly reclining in Hancock's calm yet complex chords. The
compositions are brilliantly structured as well, encouraging such
free-form exploration with their elliptical yet memorable themes.
This quintet may have cut more adventurous records, but "ESP"
remains one of their very best albums.

Hard bop classic... Digitally remastered directly from the original
analog tapes.

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01. E.S.P.                                                              5:32
02. Eighty-One                                                          6:16
03. Little One                                                          7:24
04. R.J.                                                                3:59
05. Agitatioin                                                          7:48
06. Iris                                                                8:33
07. Mood                                                                8:49

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