Miles Davis ‎– In A Silent Way

It's "Made in Holland" on this record not in France !

2013 pressing cs9875 is very noisy on side 2. Got 2 copies that exhibit same issue.
Sub-par quality.

Picture on cover is almost completely black, can barely see Davis's face. I remember the pressing being so-so. This is such a soft sounding record that any surface noise kills it.

I don't like all of Miles' post bop/fusion work, but I think this album works really well,a nd is well ahead of its time

My B-side Matrix / Runout is XSM-150309-1H

According to the notes "B-side mothers between A and J apparently got scrapped, hence the gap." yet mine has the H. Any ideas...?

telegraph Avenue

let's say that this lp is one step into the futur of jazz
that miles was a pioneer who would look forward and match evolution
miles davis was the futur at that time and became the biggest rock band in jazz :
mixing hendrix ,sly stone, santana influences... and bebop heritage .
Combining such opposisite aspect is the mark of the greatest. r i p

In a Silent Way is a very interesting album and it was just when Miles Davis was starting to move froward into the jazz-fusion era and it shows because it's not all fusion, just light hints of hit here and there. There's a lot of modal and bop going on throughout the album.

The first side, which consists of two tracks, starts of pretty much as the title suggests. It's very peaceful, slow moving and soft. I could wrap my ears around this for 40 minutes easy but it soon picks up after about 5 minutes and in come in the organ and drums that pick up the pace a bit more. There's also a softly played guitar and throughout this track there's organ motifs that have been sampled a million times I'm sure simply because they're so damn good. And just when you think your getting bored the pace picks up again and then settles you down. This is one track you have to have patience for but it's damn groovy.

The second side, which again consists of two tracks as one, starts off at a faster pace and is already groov'n with organ sighs, jamming drums and guitar. The track sounds very much like a continuation of the first two and it's great to listen to on CD because it seems like one long 40 minute track that doesn't even seem like 20 minutes. I prefer it on vinyl, like most jazz, but this is a case where having it on CD can come in handy too. All in all this album is a land mark in the Miles Davis discography and I would have giving it a 5/5 if there had been more variation but this vinyl still gets spinned a lot by me!

Miles can play some beautiful music when he set himself to the task. Beautiful and fragile in a way that Sketches of Spain was. An intensely hopeful record.
This is like the calm before the storm and an incredible album to throw on late late in the night right when the sun begins to rise.
In a Silent Way, the song itself should worm its way into your special music collection.
This album also literally was the calm before the storm that brought forth the most intense and fertile period of Miles shape shifter career and possibly the last time you could hear that horn played with such a gentle approach.