Agharta (album)

Infobox Album |
Name = Agharta
Type = Live Album
Artist = Miles Davis


Released = 1976
Recorded = February 1 1975
Genre = Jazz fusion
Length = 97:34
Label = Columbia Records
Producer = Teo Macero
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:5srn282r058a link]
Last album = "Dark Magus"
(1974)
This album = "Agharta"
(1976)
Next album = "Pangaea"
(1975)
Misc = Extra album cover 2
Upper caption = Agharta
Type = Live Album


Lower caption = Japanese edition design by "Tadanori Yokoo".

"Agharta" is an album recorded by jazz trumpeter Miles Davis in 1975. Both "Agharta" and "Pangaea" were recorded on the same day in Osaka, Japan. The "Agharta" concert took place during an afternoon matinee, while "Pangaea" was recorded in the evening.

Track listing

Disc One
# "Prelude (Part One)" – 22:37
# "Prelude (Part Two)" – 10:31
# "Maiysha" – 12:20

Disc Two
# "Interlude" – 26:50
# "Theme from Jack Johnson" – 25:16

All compositions by Miles Davis.

Personnel

*Miles Davis – trumpet, organ
*Sonny Fortune – soprano saxophone, alto saxophone, flute
*Michael Henderson – electric bass
*Pete Cosey – guitar, synthi, percussion
*Al Foster – drums
*Reggie Lucas – guitar
*Mtume – conga, percussion, water drum, rhythm box

Miscellanea

* About sixteen minutes into "Interlude", the band briefly play a psychedelic version of the theme from "So What", a track from Davis's "Kind of Blue" (1959).
* The Japanese CD pressing indexes both "Prelude"s into one track, and the entire second disc is also indexed as one 52-minute track. [http://www.discogs.com/release/1046026]