FILLES DE KILIMANJARO
FILLES DE KILIMANJARO Miles Davis, Columbia (CS 9750) Richard Walls
Cuts: Frelan Brun (Brown Hornet); Tout De Suite; Petits Machins (Little Stuff); Fillas De Kilimanjaro (Girls of' Kilimanjaro); Mademoiselle Mabry (Miss Mabry).
Personnel: Davis, trumpet; Wayne Shorter, tenor sax; Herbie Hancock and Chick Corea, piano, electric piano ; Ron Carter or Dave Holland, bass; Tony Williams, drums.
Some people haven’t been able to get to Mile’s music recently, myself included. There’s been a coldness in his music from Miles Smiles (CS 9401) to Miles in the Sky (CS 9625)—the songs were beginning to sound all the same. A brief enigmatic melody, a flurry of notes by Miles, subdued lyricism by Shorter and a usually too brief solo by Hancock. Occasionally, there were ballads which glowed a little, but not enough. Nothing like the fire and interplay of Miles Davis in Europe (CS 8983). The music was getting more and more abstract. Boring in its singularity. This record changes all that.