Today is the official release date for the Miles Davis box set The Cellar Door Sessions 1970, and reviews are beginning to appear across the Net. Blender magazine gives the set four stars, while All About Jazz has an "extended analysis" here, and writer Ben Ratliff weighs in for the New York Times here:
"The Cellar Door Sessions, 1970, a new six-CD box set full of live Miles Davis music, represents a stretch when Davis was making organic, linear music. It is six musicians in a working band, making sense of a new paradigm on a nightclub stage in Washington, from a Wednesday to a Saturday...In everyday terms, this box set is too much music. One of these discs alone, perhaps the second or the sixth, can be nearly overwhelming; each demands concentration. But for now that's beside the point. It's filling a hole in general knowledge, and it establishes better than before that there was, in fact, a third great Miles Davis group beyond the quintets of the 1950's and 60's"
(edited 12/27/05 to correct the name of the box set)
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