Just a re-eco-lection.
I did hear a bootleg a few years back, of Prince and Miles Davis
collaborating in the studio.
While neither artist is necessarily particularly this-listy, the resulting
collaboration might well be.
Prince's vox and ego are tiresome and he's becoming a bit of a dirty old
man, but one can't fault his guitar style, studio savvy, or funked grooves.
As for Miles - well, it's been said he's God, and I won't differ.
I would go out on a limb and say he's potentially the most significant
force in 20th century music (More than 40 years of recording, arranging,
and mentoring the best of the best: cool jazz to big band to be-bop to hard
bop to psychedelic rock to hard rock to free jazz to noise to ambient to
"world" music to funk to go-go to hip-hop to acid jazz to...), but there's
an eq/bias in there for sure.
Anyway, from my one lucky listen four years back, I recall that the results
involved instrumental, deep intelligent beats with odd funky noises, with
Miles playing equally the trumpet notes and the spaces between.
I wonder, I do wonder, where one might track down any remnants of this
recording session? As far as I know, it was never properly released.
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