Aura

Miles Davis | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 1, 2008)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sbme Special Mkts.
• ASIN: B0012GMZU4
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #81,259 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Intro

2. White

3. Yellow

4. Orange

5. Red

6. Green

7. Blue

8. Electric Red

9. Indigo

10. Violet

Customer Reviews

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Miles' last Columbia album, March 3, 2010

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James A. Bailey Jr. (Greensboro, NC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Aura (Audio CD)

With this album, Miles takes a departure from the electronic music he had done on recent albums. Here he returns to a more orchestrated approach using a big band. However, this is not traditional big band jazz. Instead this recording has more of a classical feel. If you are looking for something commercial and "poppy", this album is not it. On the other hand, if you enjoy hearing Miles experiment with some different sounds, this is a rather enjoyable recording.

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Classic, December 25, 2009

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Bill Your 'Free Form FM Handi Cyber Print DJ ... (Mahwah, NJ USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Aura (Audio CD)

This is the last major work from Miles. 1985. Just as he worked with arranger Gil Evan's in the 1950s, Miles steps in and works with the orchestra of Pele Millkenberg.

Of course the music is totally different. This is dissonant almost-classical music with huge structres spread out over what was a double album. It is electronic and intense. As always, David waltzes into the maximus, and signs his glorious name with his spare soloing.

The link to the rest of Davis' work is John McGlaghlan, who shows up just like he had fifteen years before, lending his rogorous axe work to the grand composition.

This is not B-Brew, In A Silent Way, Sketches, Porky, or Birth Of The Cool, but after four years out of retirement playing light jazz and pop, the sheer ambition of this is refreshing.

If you took all the major works above, they would be bookended by Birth Of The Cool and Aura. And that makes this final moonshot essential.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Listening Tlp, November 11, 2010

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Johnny Hodges (Clark Fork, ID United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Aura (Audio CD)

According to an ever changing array of critics (cynics) over the years, Miles has "sold out!" about a dozen times. I'm old enough to remember the hue and cry when he went from bop to cool to Gil Evans to even cooler jazz to modal to a movie soundtrack to trance music to electrified jazz to jazz-rock and beyond. So if you have some familiarity with Miles, try to flense your mind of any expectations for this music before listening. It would be ideal if you heard this without knowing who it was (right away, anyway). It's really one of Miles' most affecting performances. He considered it one of his best efforts.