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GENRE: Jazz/Fusion/Large Jazz Ensemble
COMPOSERS: Miles Davis, Joe Zawinul
ARRANGER: Charles Pillow

As in the previous release, "Electric Miles", this set of music comes from a particular period in Miles' oeuvre; 1969-75. Some of these titles were represented merely as bass lines, and Miles would, in live performance, segue from one to the next by musical gestures from his trumpet. The band would follow him this way. His music from 1972 forward became somewhat chaotic, yet focused on energy and intense playing from the band. Players such as Chick Corea, Steve Grossman, Mtume, Jack DeJohnette, Dave Holland, John McLaughlin, Billy Cobham, Billy Hart, Dave Liebman, and many others were the driving force behind this mostly mis-understood music that helped usher in a new direction in jazz.

Charles Pillow: arranger, alto/soprano sax, flute
Alexa Tarrantino: alto/soprano sax flute
Jimmy Greene: tenor sax
Michael Thomas: tenor sax, flute, clarinet
Dave Rieckenberg: bass clarinet, baritone sax

TROMBONES
Michael Davis
Alan Ferber
Nick Grinder
Jeff Nelson

FRENCH HORNS
Kyle Hoyt
Judy Lee
Eric Davis

TRUMPETS
Tony Kadleck
Jim Hynes
Frank Greene
Scott Wendholt
Clay Jenkins
Tim Hagans <

SOLOISTS
Scott Wendholt
Tim Hagans
Clay Jenkins

KEYBOARDS
Henry Hey
Mike Holober

GUITAR
Pete McCann

BASS
Ugonna Okegwo
Chuck Bergeron

DRUMS
Jared Schonig

Charles Pillow comes from Baton Rouge, LA. After college at Loyola University, he pursued his Masters Degree in Jazz Studies at the prestigious Eastman School of Music, in Rochester, NY. Since moving to NYC in 1987, he has appeared on over 100 recordings of jazz, pop luminaries such as Frank Sinatra, Mariah Carey, Jay Z, Luther Vandross, Paul Simon, Michael Brecker, Bruce Springsteen, John Scofield, Tom Harrell, Dave Liebman, David Sanborn, to name a few.

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• For those who want to explore obscure Miles Davis tunes with some of the best musicians New York has to offer...

Press Quotes

''Pillow is on the cutting edge of a trend. He ushers in a previously unexploited way to enliven and extend jazz''

     —All About Jazz

'...a new and exultant Davis tribute and it presents a fresh and enjoyable examination of Davis' fusion material.'

     —Audiophile Audition

'...beautiful voicings... and a powerful punch...'

     —Rochester City Newspaper

'Charles Pillow has done it triumphantly with his modern charts and arrangements. He brings something both substantial and new to Miles' very important music that are the source of modern electric jazz.'

     —WPRB FM

'...Charles Pillow has synopsized an important era for jazz using his seventeen-piece band to execute arrangements from the best of fusion...'

     —Musical Memoirs