I Remember Miles (Benny Golson album)

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I Remember Miles
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Studio album by
Released1993
RecordedOctober 5 & 6, 1992
StudioClinton Recording Studios, NYC
Genre Jazz
Length61:23
Label Alfa Jazz
ALCR-277
Producer Yoshihisa Arao
Benny Golson chronology
Domingo
(1991)
I Remember Miles
(1993)
That's Funky
(1995)
Evidence Cover
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I Remember Miles is an album by saxophonist/composer Benny Golson, featuring compositions associated with or inspired by Miles Davis, that was recorded in 1992 and originally released by the Japanese Alfa Jazz label before being reissued in the US on Evidence Music in 1996. [1] [2]

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Reception

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The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow said "There are a few remarkable recreations on tenor-saxophonist Benny Golson's tribute to Miles Davis, particularly "'Round Midnight" and parts of "So What" and "Bye Bye Blackbird." Trumpeter Eddie Henderson (especially when muted) comes very close to duplicating not only the sound but the spirit of Davis while Golson sometimes discards his own strong musical personality to do close impressions of John Coltrane ... This heartfelt tribute album has enough unique moments to make it easily recommended". [3] On All About Jazz, C. Michael Bailey observed "Golson's I Remember Miles covers five of the Miles Davis book standards and four Golson originals, the latter being more interesting than the former ... This disc on the whole is a sleeper. It is well arranged and performed, but with no fire. It fairly pales when listened to during the same afternoon with Shirley Horn's I Remember Miles . While Golson and company offer a decent record, I recommend the same expenditure for the Shirley Horn Disc if the listener is trying to choose between the two". [5]

Track listing

All compositions by Benny Golson except where noted

  1. "Four" (Miles Davis) – 6:11
  2. "Heartstrings" – 7:16
  3. "'Round Midnight" (Thelonious Monk, Cootie Williams, Bernie Hanighen) – 10:13
  4. "Bye Bye Blackbird" (Ray Henderson, Mort Dixon) – 9:57
  5. "One Day, Forever (I Remember Miles)" – 5:46
  6. "Autumn Leaves" (Joseph Kosma, Jacques Prévert, Johnny Mercer) – 8:44
  7. "So What" (Davis) – 9:30
  8. "Uptown Afterburn" – 6:16

Personnel

Production

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References

  1. Benny Golson discography accessed March 22, 2019
  2. Jazzdisco: Benny Golson catalog accessed March 22, 2019
  3. 1 2 Yanow, Scott. Benny Golson: I Remember Miles – Review at AllMusic . Retrieved March 22, 2019.
  4. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 569. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.
  5. Bailey, C. M. All About Jazz Review accessed March 22, 2019