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Miles Electric: A Different Kind of Blue (2004) Online
Original Title :
Miles Electric: A Different Kind of Blue
Genre :
Movie / Documentary
Year :
2004
Directror :
Murray Lerner
Cast :
Gary Bartz,Bob Belden,Paul Buckmaster
Type :
Movie
Time :
1h 27min
Rating :
8.0/10
Miles Electric: A Different Kind of Blue (2004) Online

Documentary about Miles Davis' legendary gig at the Isle of Wight Festival, August 1970. Includes full live footage and recent interviews with band mates and others. .
Credited cast:
Gary Bartz Gary Bartz - Himself
Bob Belden Bob Belden - Himself
Paul Buckmaster Paul Buckmaster - Himself
Ron Carter Ron Carter - Himself
Chick Corea Chick Corea - Himself
Pete Cosey Pete Cosey - Himself
Stanley Crouch Stanley Crouch - Himself
Miles Davis Miles Davis - Himself (archive footage)
Jack DeJohnette Jack DeJohnette - Himself
Herbie Hancock Herbie Hancock - Himself
Dave Holland Dave Holland - Himself
Keith Jarrett Keith Jarrett - Himself
Dave Liebman Dave Liebman - Himself
Marcus Miller Marcus Miller - Himself
Joni Mitchell Joni Mitchell - Herself


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Lightbinder

Lightbinder

For folks who lived the times of the concerts of in isle or Wight, this remains one of the best musical moments of a generation that changed forever the landscape of jazz and rock music. In the biography of Miles Davis this is the peak of a change that brought a jazz musician who was already a legend, but only in the rather conscripted world of jazz on the world screen of the widely known pop music.

The documentary does a pretty good job explaining the transition undergone by Davis in the years before Wight, his permanent search of new means of expression, his discovery of the capabilities of the electric instruments and his push to fellow musicians which changed the life and art of no lesser names like Chick Corea, Carlos Santana, Herbie Hancock and other. These artists outlived Davis, and they tell their stories on screen, but I mostly liked the final homage brought by each of them in musical language at the end of the film. And in-between we have filmed excerpts of the concert which represented a MILEStone in the history of music.