Big Al Posted August 10, 2006 Report Share Posted August 10, 2006 I'm pretty sure it was Aura. How's THAT for an inauspicious introduction to the man's music? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cali Posted August 10, 2006 Report Share Posted August 10, 2006 KoB. First time I heard Trane's solo on SO WHAT was a life changing experience. Previously had been into LockJaw on those COOKBOOK LPs. When I heard Trane it was like an electric jolt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnS Posted August 10, 2006 Report Share Posted August 10, 2006 Can't really say for sure, Milestones maybe but more likely Kind Of Blue when it first came out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris olivarez Posted August 10, 2006 Report Share Posted August 10, 2006 Bitches Brew. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidewinder Posted August 10, 2006 Report Share Posted August 10, 2006 (edited) I've just realised that my initial response to this thread was wrong. It wasn't the 'Greatest Hits' LP (although this was the first one I actually bought) but a loan from an uncle (for which I will forever be grateful) of the 'Essential Miles Davis' 3LP set put out by Henri Renaud at French CBS ( ). This is the one with the flock 'Indian restaurant wallpaper' style box cover (very early 70s) and the bonus 45rpm of 'Great Expectations'. That would have made the first Miles I heard side 1 track 1 'Bye Bye Blackbird' with Coltrane. Not a bad intro. I've since got me a copy of that great 3LP set ! Edited August 10, 2006 by sidewinder Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rooster_Ties Posted August 10, 2006 Report Share Posted August 10, 2006 COOL cover!! Never saw that one before, that's for sure. Thanks for posting it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidewinder Posted August 10, 2006 Report Share Posted August 10, 2006 (edited) Glad you enjoy it. The cover is psychadelic furry felt so it is also very pleasant to touch ! :rsmile: Henri Renaud at French CBS put out such great material around this time (including those massive Basie sets) and fortunately some of it sneaked in to the UK. Edited August 10, 2006 by sidewinder Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flat5 Posted August 10, 2006 Report Share Posted August 10, 2006 squiggly cover? Maybe it was one that Don Martin did. I first heard Miles on the Bird Dial recordings I would guess. No idea which record of his I first bought. Probably an early Columbia. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PHILLYQ Posted August 11, 2006 Report Share Posted August 11, 2006 It was around 1972, and I had heard Mahavishnu and was knocked out by McLaughlin's guitar playing. I went to a record store(all vinyl in those days!) with a few buddies and one noticed that McLaughlin was on a double album by Miles Davis, so I bought Live/Evil. 'What I Say' floored me, with Miles' pyrotechnic solo and Jarrett's long electric piano solo, and McLaughlin burnin' up the fretboard. Jack deJohnette became a hero to me(musically), and that album led me into more Miles, Jack, Gary Bartz, Airto, Jarrett, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LAL Posted August 11, 2006 Report Share Posted August 11, 2006 Relaxin' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ejp626 Posted August 11, 2006 Report Share Posted August 11, 2006 A cassette tape with Sketches of Spain on one side and In a Silent Way on the other. I would have eventually gotten deep into jazz anyway, but this particular purchase was inspired by a short story by Harlan Ellison where this guy decides to listen to Sketches of Spain as the world ends. Not too long after I got the cassette version of BB, which I liked a lot. KOB was probably next after that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EKE BBB Posted August 11, 2006 Report Share Posted August 11, 2006 Kind of Blue Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clifford_thornton Posted August 11, 2006 Report Share Posted August 11, 2006 Well, I inherited a bunch from my father, all original pressings. Miles Smiles, Nefertiti, Miles in the Sky, IASW, Blackhawk 1&2, My Funny Valentine, In Europe and a few others I'm forgetting. Trouble is, most of them were sorta rough shape so I barely kept any of them... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andybleaden Posted August 11, 2006 Report Share Posted August 11, 2006 It was his Blue Note stuff for me if I remember. Actually never made a big secret of the fact that until about 4-5 years ago that was all the Miles I really listened to. Although now I do have the Prestige sides and Columbia ealrier stuff and some other stuff..........never really done much for me. Certainly never made my foot tap the same way that other stuff from that era did or any other era he played in Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim McG Posted August 12, 2006 Report Share Posted August 12, 2006 KOB...of course Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GA Russell Posted August 12, 2006 Report Share Posted August 12, 2006 1969, freshman year of college. I mail ordered two LPs directly from Prestige. The first was Ezz-Thetic with Lee Konitz and Billy Bauer. Side Two was Teddy Charles. The second was Trumpet Giants, with tracks by Miles, Dizzy and Fats Navarro. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shrugs Posted August 13, 2006 Report Share Posted August 13, 2006 double cassette of My Funny Valentine/Four and More Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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