miles smiles

Miles Davis and his second great quintet hit their stride with the effortless improvisation of this freebop studio masterwork. 'Miles Smiles' shows jazz's prince of darkness lightening up, allowing the rest of the band to contribute equally to the sound that flows through elements of hard bop, avante-garde, modal, and free jazz. Herbie Hancock's piano playing utilized new chord structures that combined with the polyrhythmic explorations of double-bassist Ron Carter and drummer Tony Williams. Saxophonist Wayne Shorter contributes half of the compositions on the album. Hancock considers, "The master writer to me, in that group, was Wayne Shorter. He still is a master. Wayne was one of the few people who brought music to Miles that didn't get changed." Davis said, "Wayne is a real composer. He writes scores, write the parts for everybody just as he wants them to sound... Wayne also brought in a kind of curiosity about working with musical rules. If they didn't work, then he broke them, but with musical sense; he understood that freedom in music was the ability to know the rules in order to bend them to your own satisfaction and taste." 'Miles Smiles' was recorded at Columbia 30th Street Studio with producer Ted Macero. It was the quintet's second album. The way they would explore musical themes and their sophisticated improvisational interplay came to be known as "time, no changes."








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'Orbits' (Wayne Shorter)

'Miles Smiles' 
full album:







Side one
"Orbits" (Wayne Shorter) - 4:37
"Circle" (Miles Davis) - 5:52
"Footprints" (Wayne Shorter) - 9:46
Side two
"Dolores" (Wayne Shorter) - 6:20
"Freedom Jazz Dance" (Eddie Harris) - 7:13
"Gingerbread Boy" (Jimmy Heath) - 7:43