Directions (Miles Davis album)

Directions
Compilation album by Miles Davis
Released	March 1981
Recorded	Mar 11, 1960 - Feb 27, 1970
Genre	Jazz-rock, post bop
Length	94:26
Label	Columbia/Legacy
Producer	Teo Macero
Miles Davis chronology
Circle in the Round (1979) Directions (1981) The Man with the Horn (1981)

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Directions is a compilation double album by jazz musician Miles Davis. It collects outtakes not previously issued from a variety of sessions over a ten-year period. "Song of Our Country" is from the sessions that led to Sketches of Spain and there is a "new" version of "'Round Midnight" from 1961, along with "So Near, So Far" dating from 1963.

The remainder is from the transitional 1967-1970 period when Davis was experimenting with combining jazz and rock. (Water Babies and Circle in the Round, released in the late 1970s, also document this transition from acoustic to electric jazz fusion.)

Track listing

Disc 1

1. "Song of Our Country" (Evans) - 3:27
2. "'Round Midnight" (Hanighen, Monk, Williams) - 7:44
3. "So Near, So Far" (Crombie, Green) - 5:18
4. "Limbo" (Shorter) - 5:33
5. "Water on the Pond" (Davis) - 7:04
6. "Fun" (Davis) 4:12
7. "Directions, No. 1" (Zawinul) - 6:51
8. "Directions, No. 2" (Zawinul) - 4:51

Disc 2

1. "Ascent" (Zawinul) - 14:44
2. "Duran" (Davis) - 11:00
3. "Konda" (Davis) - 14:10
4. "Willie Nelson" (Davis) - 10:21

Personnel

Recorded between Mar 11, 1960 - Feb 27, 1970.

• Miles Davis — trumpet, bells, chimes
• John Coltrane — tenor saxophone
• Cannonball Adderley — alto saxophone
• Hank Mobley — tenor saxophone
• Wayne Shorter — tenor saxophone
• Bernie Maupin — bass clarinet
• Khalil Balakrishna — sitar
• Joe Beck — guitar
• George Benson — guitar
• John McLaughlin — guitar
• Red Garland — piano
• Bill Evans — piano
• Wynton Kelly — piano
• Herbie Hancock — piano
• Chick Corea — piano
• Joe Zawinul — piano
• Paul Chambers — bass
• Ron Carter — bass
• Dave Holland — bass
• Philly Joe Jones — drums
• Jimmy Cobb — drums
• Tony Williams — drums
• Billy Cobham — drums
• Jack DeJohnette — drums
• Airto Moreira — percussion

References

1. ^ Yanow, Scott (2011 [last update]). "Directions - Miles Davis | AllMusic". allmusic.com. http://www.allmusic.com/album/-r106209. Retrieved 2 August 2011. 

External links

• Album on Amazon