1. Shhh/Peaceful - (17:58)
2. In a Silent Way/It's About That Time - (19:57)
Total time: 37:55
Miles Davis - trumpet
Wayne Shorter - tenor and soprano saxes
John McLaughlin - guitar
Herbie Hancock & Chick Corea - electric pianos
Josef Zawinul - electric piano & organ
Dave Holland - bass
Tony Williams - drums.
Recorded 2/18/69 in New York City.
Produced by Teo Macero.
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In a Silent Way brought Miles Davis together with members of his brillant group of the '60s (Herbie Hancock/Wayne Shorter/Tony Williams) and emerging musical spirits (Chick Corea/Dave Holland/Joe Zawinul/John McLaughlin) who would launch Davis into the Bitches Brew era. On In a Silent Way, Davis was moving away from "tunes" while utilizing more electric instrumental coloring and rockish patterns and splicing to manufacture the music -- ideas which seemed to take hold a year after his stunning Plugged Nickel recordings. Here the music continued to show the distinct Davis use of suspension and space, but it was more amorphic and no longer seemed rooted in a clear, direct emotion, but was rather indirectly emotional in an illusive sense of reality. ~ Bob Rusch, Cadence(Cadence), All-Music Guide
1969 | LP | CBS CS 9857 (US) | CBS 63630 (GB) | CBS-Sony SONP-50131 |
CBS-Sony SOPL-170 | CBS-Sony 25AP770 | CBS-Sony 23AP2575 | ||
CD | CBS CK 40580 (digitally remastered) (US) |
Sony 32DP-730 (J) | Sony 450982-2 |