Pete's picks: 1) Jack Johnson (1971) 2) Bitches Brew (1970) 3) Miles Smiles (1967) 4) In a Silent Way (1969) 5) On the Corner (1972) 6) Filles de Kilimanjaro (1968) 7) Nefertiti (1968) 8) Live Evil (1971) 9) Big Fun (1974) 10) Agharta (1975) Honorable mentions: Sorcerer Miles in the Sky Water Babies Black Beauty-At Filmore West Miles Davis at Fillmore East Dark Magus Pangaea Chuck's picks: 10 Miles At The Fillmore 9 Agartha 8 Filles De KIlamanjaro 7 Get Up With It 6 Live Evil 5 Bitches Brew 4 A Tribute To Jack Johnson 3 On The Corner 2 In A Silent Way 1 Miles Smiles Honorable Mentions -Miles In The Sky -Live At The Fillmore East (March 7th, 1970) Andy's picks: 1) Bitches Brew 2) Panthalassa 3) Live Evil 4) Agharta 5) Jack Johnson 6) In a Silent Way 7) Get Up With It 8) Pangaea 9) Miles Smiles 10) In Concert Honourables: Circle in th Round, Directions, Water Babies.

My mom used to tell me that sometimes if order to learn how to love something, you have to watch someone who loves it. That is what SOT has demonstrated to me.

Pete, you bring the greatest people together to talk about music. Thank you so much!

Miles playing at the Isle of Wight festival 1970 worth a mention - available on DVD- great improvisation.

Big Fun is so hypnotic. My favorite out of the 12 I've got.

I love the show, i love Miles. And this period is amazing. Mindblowing stuff all the way through. More of this brothers. More of this.

Me two hours back with a whole bunch of Miles, all the metal box sets, anniversary editions etc.. "I have enough..there isnt any major stuff I need" Me after watchin "Yeah, where is my credit card?" Started, like Pete, when Chuck showed the complete Fillmore East and kept on adding up. Its like a....curse. A real curse.

This is just great, I added about 10 new albums to my music library. I love everyone's passion.

This video only proves I have so much to dig into from this era and other Miles eras, however, I adore In A Silent Way. I’d say it’s in my top 50 favorite albums by anybody. Gorgeous, spacious, peaceful mosaics. A perfect evening wind-down record.

Pete, I'm only half way through this, but already it's my favourite SoT show. Three guys who love Miles as much as I do. Any of the albums that were mentioned could be no. 1 - in particular I agree with Pete about On the Corner - my "hate to love" journey is exactly the same!

For a moment I thought you were going to do a video ranking the entire discography. That would be like a 24 hour stream, lol.

Great job guys, I have a decent Miles collection, but definitely have much to learn. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and passion for Miles

You can NEVER listen to too much Miles or Coltrane. Always great to hear what others get from the stuff you love. GREAT call from Andy for #2.

My Top Ten: 1) Bitches Brew 2) Panthalassa (Bill Laswell remix) 3) Live Evil 4) Agharta 5) Jack Johnson 6) In a Silent Way 7) Get Up With It 8) Pangaea 9) Miles Smiles 10) In Concert Honourables: Circle in th Round, Directions, Water Babies...

This is a great discussion of my favorite era of Miles Davis. I even managed to write down my own rankings of the 20 LPs from this period. The Electric Miles has such an immense influence on hip-hop and electronica, as well as post-punk, alternative and metal. This music was decades ahead of the curve.

The albums of Miles Davis are more than just a catalogue of music, they're a historical library's worth of history with so much material that any one of them could easily be a number one because of how historically important they are. When you think of jazz, you think of Miles Davis, he not only defined the genre but he completely changed the face of the game forever. This was without a doubt, the best ranking the albums I have ever seen. Great job guys 👏

"Footprints" was the first thing that grabbed me by Miles and that amazing group. Hypnotic but playful, as if these guys are right in the living room working out some music and doing so so well!

I saw Miles Davis 3 times, in 1974 with Sonny Fortune, Pete Cosey and Reggie Lucas (apparently Dominique Gaumont was out sick) in Paul's Mall, a small jazz club in Boston (I had a front row table--Miles was about 6 feet away), in 1981 at Kix in Boston with Mike Stern, Al Foster, Marcus Miller and Bill Evans, and in 1985 with Stern, Bob Berg on tenor, I think Vince Wilburn on drums, others I can't quite recall at the moment. The 1974 show was the best concert in any genre I've ever seen, 3 45-minute sets and a 20 minute closer. It's really not contest, and I've seen Sonny Rollins, McCoy Tyner, Bob Dylan (3 times), John McLaughlin's original Mahavishnu Orchestra (twice) Muddy Waters, and other titans of 20th century music. The live shows from that 1973-1976 period are astounding. The three double live albums are essential listening. The two other shows I saw each had a different dynamic--1981 had some continuity with the mid-70s shows but was more lyrical, less dense. The 1985 (or 86?) show was extremely impressive, almost 3 hours of music, beautiful versions of Time after Time and Human Nature, and great work by Stern, Berg and I think Tom Coster on keyboards. Miles was very strong by then on trumpet, great tone and time. I love his final bands from the late 80s to his final shows with Ken Garrett and Foley McCreary. The studio albums just can't show how good his bands were live. Thanks for an astute review of your favorites.

Fun idea! In A Silent Way took over from Kind of Blue as my fave of his entire catalog around 15 years ago, so not close. I've gradually grokked his mid-70s stuff more and more, with Pangaea and Big Fun bubblin' under, just over Sorceror, Miles in the Sky and Filles de Killimanjaro. 1. In A Silent Way (Columbia, 1969) 2. Bitches Brew (Columbia, 1970) 3. Miles Smiles (Columbia, 1966) 4. A Tribute To Jack Johnson (Columbia, 1971) 5. On The Corner (Columbia, 1972) 6. Nefertiti (Columbia, 1967) 7. E.S.P. (Columbia, 1965) 8. Get Up With It (Columbia, 1974) 9. Agharta (Columbia, 1975) 10. Sorcerer (Columbia, 1967)

Miles Smiles is my favourite lp by Miles. Also Hello from the UK 🇬🇧

Been waiting for this a long time. Great show with so much information. I got into Jazz and Jazz fusion because of this channel.

Four and More is 1964 but I think that captures the urgency of the quintet live at it's finest.

I can't wait....1 hour and 40 mins of Miles chat. To me, the greatest single musician of the 20th century. Virtually any of his 65-75 albums could be my number one, depending on my mood on a particular day. Probably today, a joint, three-way tie between Miles Smiles, Bitches Brew and the Cellar Door Sessions. Thanks in advance, Pete and co. for this show.

I saw Miles twice. Once in 1974 in a club called the Smiling Dog Saloon, then again in 1982 in a bigger theater called the Front Row. The 1974 show was..."interesting." The band was just jamming the whole time with a funk jazz sound onslaught with Miles blasting above the din. I also learned that Miles was the Coolest Person On The Planet at this show. The 1982 show was much tighter, so it was more musically compelling. Guitarist Mike Stern was amazing, and the MVP of the show. Bill Evans on sax and Marcus Miller on bass were no slouches either. My favorite Miles album is Live-Evil. I had a cassette of it in the 70's and I must have played that in my car a thousand times.

It was a pleasure to listen to three guy with my taste in jazz! My unforgettable Miles Davis live experiences: Innsbruck (Austria) 1987 & Munich 1989

So cool to see Andy on SoT.

Miles ability to bring in these legendary names, was a huge part of this period. He surrounded himself with” cream of the crop” jazz players. I think he took a lesson from Art Blakey. Blakey and the Jazz Messengers was the prior generation of jazz players. Interestingly, Shorter bridges that gap.

pete we need more jazz shows i love this stuff

Great show, always fun to watch and listen to.

Great show. What is noteworthy is that the live albums have to be included in any ranking of Miles Davis. Lots of ranking episodes of other artists on various channels do not include live albums because they are mostly standbys before a studio album gets made, inconsequential, or a marketing strategy. In the case of Miles Davis and his various bands, the live albums are as meaningful and beautiful works of art, just as much as the studio albums are.

Don't forget the great uncredited Sonny Sharrock on the "Willie Nelson" segment of "Yesternow"

This is WHY i love so much this channel.Great job guys! My picks : 1- Circle in the Round 2- Directions 3- In a Silent Way 4- Miles Smiles 5- Bitches Brew 6- Filles de Kilimandjaro 7- Miles in the Sky 8- Sorcerer 9- Nefertiti 10- Jack Johnson

Would love to see an 80s one. The 80s is a definite underated period, very good stuff

Wow...awesome show! Glad to see you guys all love that Psychedelic Afro/Soul Jazz-Free Funk-Acid Rock thing...think I got most of it in there. Miles at the Fillmore East. Bill Graham had this thing of some very off the wall pairings. Miles & Laura Nyro?!? Miles & The Steve Miller Band?!? IIRC, Miles insisted on opening...even though he was the "headliner".

Saw Miles live in 1991 in London. Bloody brilliant classic

As Miles always said jazz is what is happening at that moment in time and he always sighted Louis Armstrong as being a massive influence in the beginning of improvised jazz making, along with Dizzy.

Long awaited fantastic show, did not disappoint! The 90 plus minutes went by so quick! Andy’s episode on playing Bitches Brew while in concert with Robert Plant in typhoon Italy was precious! And great selection by all, will have to re-listen to many of the albums in my collection, and purchase those not yet in the collection!

1. Get Up With It 2. Dark Magus 3. Bitches Brew 4. Black Beauty 5. In a Silent Way 6. Nefertiti 7. Miles Smiles 8. On the Corner 9. Agartha 10. A Tribute to Jack Johnson

Great stuff Guys Really enjoyed this one. I dig way too many Miles albums to rank them, but love everything with Ron carter, Tony Williams or Herbie. Awesome catalog of magnificent music.

Bought the box all the Columbia albums such an interesting catalog. Probably my favorite artist I have over 150 Miles Cd's probably more. please except this giant thank you for doing any sort of a top 10 on the genius of Miles Davis.

SOT's finest moment I've watched this so many times

This was brilliant! Will watch again too. I've been getting into Miles over the past few months and you have all really inspired me to invest further in the catalogue. Brilliant guys 😎

THANK YOU for this episode, one of you best best album episode so far as i'm quite the jazz enthusiast myself, no expert by any means, but i do love what we know as modern jazz or free jazz and early fusion if you like although i've never thought of those early fusion jazz albums as that, as the jazz fusion i've heard fro the latter 70's and onwards with your labels GRP and so forth makes me ILL/ANGRY and i'm veeeery open minded, for being a metal/punk fan as being the fundamental in my life, being literally born in to the music industry (well, in a hospital but....) and my father being a producer etc, was a blessing and not so great, which i won't get into here, but love the albums you picked i was very excited about what you would pick, and i agree with alot of what you said, and you're absolutely right with alt of your observations and THEE importance mr DAVIS have had on the world of music, indeed, even though i'm big on Coltrane (the other BIG one) Miles is my guy, and if i had to pick 2 all time fave Miles albums, which isn't easy and i've got some albums to get into, specially that mountain of live recordings that exist, and ALL of his era's, would be; Get Up With It AND Sketches Of Spain, to AMAZING albums in each their very own and different way, but in the end my fave period if i had to pick would be the era you discussed in this episode, thank you for this great talk/list/discussion/celebration of some of this masters heavy amount of output, hope someone will pick up an album by this great an after seeing this for the first time in his/her life 🙂

Awesome, awesome show with great insights into this magical music, thanks

Some of the best music ever made.

Pete, "Noisy Bliss" is spot on for "Maiysha" no doubt !And those guitars, really some of the funkiest, rawest and innovative ever recorded.Andy makes some great points about the way Miles' legacy has stretched way beyond jazz rock fusion into so many other genres like Jungle and leftfield hip hop and will no doubt continue to do so.I was heavily involved in the Asian Underground scene in the 90's in London and you would hear this stuff everywhere. Has any other artist reshaped music so often , so successfully with that much wild excitement?This has been my fave ever S of T rankings, joyous stuff thank you!! PS Dark Magus ...oh yes.

Great episode. I’m always up for some Miles chat. You guys delivered.

Hi Pete, can you do a top 10 album ranking on Keith Jarrett with Chuck and Andy?

For beginners - A Kind of Blue. It's not from this era but there's a reason it's the best selling jazz LP of all time.

I know this is a tear old but this is my favorite because I just love listening to Miles and I have about 25 vinyls so seeing what I have against what Yous guys picked is so fun!!

Excellent!! Love you guys. Andy's channel rocks. Chuck, Pete and Dany really know their prog, jazz, fusion, hard rock. Great video! Andy's stories here are hillarious. I was laughing my ass off.

Panthalassa got me into Miles. He Loved Him Madly is amazing

What a great episode - so informative! Thanks guys!

Miles in the sky DEFINITELY in my top 10. Paraphernalia is one of the best ever Miles tracks. And Stuff is legendary... maybe top 5 for me

Great video and rankings, thanks !

01 In A Silent Way 02 Bitches Brew 03 Get Up With It 04 Miles In The Sky 05 Jack Johnson 06 On The Corner 07 Big Fun 08 Nefertiti 09 Miles Smiles 10 Live Evil

Bitches Brew, a classic, In a Silent Way Filles de Kilimanjaro. Miles Smiles Miles in the Sky On the Corner I was not present for your first Miles Davis session, so I would be wanting, to fail to mention my love for Sketches of Spain, Porgy and Bess, Miles Ahead. i

This has been one of the most enjoyable SOT videos. Thanks! Great to see Filles de Kilimanjaro get a mention. One of my favourites of the era. I often like transitional albums, especially those cobbled together from different sessions that work well regardless. Most of my favourites came up but a couple of honourable mentions go to Live at the Plugged Nickel, The Cellar Door Sessions 1970 and one other. Recorded live in '64 but only released in '66, 'Four' and More opens with the most blistering version of So What. I've read somewhere that the band were angry as Miles had volunteered their pay to charity which he could more easily afford. You can hear the rage and Tony Williams is at his most ferocious here - It was pre-ESP so he was still very young. I'm aware I'm bending the rules but it's one of my favourite recorded moments of Miles' career and anyone hearing the track in question for the first time will surely forgive. Miles Smiles is my favourite from the second classic quintet. Bitches Brew is my favourite from the early fusion era. Apart from the gorgeous main melody from Shhh/Peaceful, in a Silent Way does leave me a little cold at times. I much prefer Filles before and the churning music from the Brew that followed. Agharta and Pangea go together and so I can't separate them easily. They both have their charms and get the nod for favourite later fusion period.

Thank you for this Pete and gang. I'm a huge Miles Davis fan but my collection is skewed greatly to the classic quintets of the 50's and the Gil Evans stuff. I love Jack Johnson and In a Silent way but this really gives me some direction to explore!

Great show, guys! Thank you for sharing your knowledge. This is my favorite period of Miles, so I was excited to see you all's take... I've heard the vast majority of Miles's canon, but I've still a good bit to hear (mostly later stuff).

The musicians who started playing with Miles Davis were already more or less established names. One of the reasons was that Miles gave excellent salaries to his players, far better than the rest. Art Blakey is the one who gave a lot of musicians their first chance in the professional jazz world.

Fantastic as always!!!!

Fantastic episode! My all-time fave musician and my all time fave period of his. Great to see so much love for this.

The picture on the back of Live Evil is q caricature of J.Edgar Hoover apparently.

Would love to see a deep dive into Ornette Coleman or Sun Ra!

I had no idea Panthalassa existed and I just listened to In A Silent Way off it. Wow it’s amazing👍

Great show, outstanding guests! (And this from a viewer who frequently passes on lengthy guest-filled shows.)

Hey Pete!!! I have recommendation for a Tuesday night show....or something separate for the Fusion guys....do a each individuals Fusion Super Groups....It would be killer to find out everyones thoughts on this

Tremendously excellent episode, guys! I don’t know how you all were able to nail down solid rankings for this; I can’t do it. I agree with Chuck that Jack Johnson might be the most accessible place to start for the uninitiated. I would be remiss if I didn’t mention my delight over hearing the sheer amount of other artists (and genres) that were name-checked throughout this episode - Miles Davis’ influence was immense, but more so, it serves to highlight the fact that all music is ultimately connected. Fantastic!!!

Miles Behind is my favorite LP.

Definitely agree about Panthalassa (double album) so good! Would choose Circle in the Round too

Great episode guys!

Outstanding. Very informative.

Awesome Show!

For someone who has a fleating affair with Miles, this show delivers big time. The panel were insighful and their devotion so contagious, I look forward to listening/ watching the show again....and again. A very classy performance paying tribute to a peerless talent, gentlemen.

Amandla is my favorite Miles Davis LP.

Wow! Great job guys. Been a true pleasure watching this and seeing how much you guys love this stuff.

Excellent show with thee well informed cats

I didn't read the title properly and was like where's Milestones or Kind Of Blue?! Derp. There's a great Miles concert with Keith Jarrett on ePiano on KZfaq from 1971. It's not an official album or video but it is absolutely killer in every way. Good lists!

Lucille Handberg's tornado picture used on Bitches Brew and Tinderbox was also used on Deep Purples stormbringer.

I absolutely love In Concert. One of my favourite live albums.

My top 10 1 Bitches Brew 2 In A Silent Way 3 On The Corner (as with Pete and others this album has been growing on me) 4 A Tribute to Jack Johnson 5 Live Evil 6 Miles Smiles 7 E.S.P. 8 Nefertiti 9 Miles in the sky 10 Sorcerer

Because of you 3 i have to buy more Miles. Thank you! :)

Agharta favourite live album of all time a shredder the 65-68 is awesome Miles has some insane box sets

Miles is great for young people to get into. He never re-invented himself for the record labels : he was just so incredibly inventive it seems like he's re-inventing. Miles is a byword for philosophy in music - 'new directions in music'. I was fortunate enough to see Miles in the 80s. Miles is important to hear for younger players, as he shows musicians how far it is possible to take music to a higher place.

damn guys. great discussion. what an incredibly rich period. There's stuff you guys didn't even mention, like the Plugged Nickel stuff and the Festival de Juan Pins in 69. You could make it top 20 and there would be no degradation in quality. I'm not sure you can even come CLOSE to saying that about any other artist over a 10 year period.

There are magical moments on every one of those records, which makes them almost impossible to rank, however "In A Silent Way" to me is the one record, that is pure magic from start to finish. Only ranking electric Miles I'd go: 1. In A Silent Way (strong contender for best album ever) 2. Bitches Brew 3. On The Corner 4. Live-Evil 5. Big Fun 6. Jack Johnson (I think it's a great gateway into fusion for fans of hard rock, but to me it lacks a bit of that keyboard magic of the other albums of that period, also the drum sound is a bit too aggressive to my ears, "Right Off" starts out strong with Mclaughlin dealing some heavy blues licks, but after a certain time that hard rock shuffle has run its course imo and "Yesternow" is very patchy.) I can't rank Get Up With It and Agharta and other live stuff, because I haven't bought them yet.

Although I have many many Miles albums my fav 2 eras are definitely the late 60's through 70's fusion era covered here and his 80's funk street jazz era. The Jazz snobs get up my nose by discounting these periods. I actually attended Jazz School for my musical training (guitar major keyboard minor) here in NZ which is our equivalent of Jazz conservatory's in other countries and to the tutors this was like heresy although all us students loved it.

What a fantastic show, have only really dipped a toe into Miles Davis, but looks like that could be changing, gonna need a bigger house

Great deep dive y'all...Almost want to ask for a similar boots. Also, saw The Miles In Concert Band at The Shrine Auditorium, with Ms. Nina Simone, The Last Poets, & The Ujima Ensemble Featuring Reggie Andrews, in 1973.

Not gonna lie , I’m a novice in this genre. But, this particular episode “ kicked BUTT. Fabulous job TRIO. Thanks a lot 👍💯

10. Miles in the Sky 9. On the Corner 8. Filles de Kilimanjaro 7. Live Evil 6. Nefertiti 5. Tribute to Jack Johnson 4. Sorcerer 3. In a Silent Way 2. E.S.P. 1. Bitches Brew

1.Jack Johnson(Right Off is one of my favorite pieces of music) 2.On the Corner 3.In a Silent Way 4.Bitches Brew 5.Live Evil

Miles said ,"that don't know what they are doing"I agree,but what do I know.But when You here MD band,You realize what He is saying..All the guy's in the band are off the charts.

Fantastic episode. I am so glad there are other Miles Davis afficionado's here on SoT. So much to discover in Mile's storied catalogue. For the Electric Miles years, here are my favourites: 1) Pangaea 2) Agharta 3) Get Up With It 4) Big Fun 5) Dark Magus 6) Jack Johnson 7) Live Evil 8) On the Corner 9) Bitches Brew 10) In a Silent Way

Diving into Miles' music I'd like eating a big thick club sandwich. You get all those different layers and flavors as you bite into it.

Awesome Show My Top Picks: 1) Pangaea (1975) 2) Get Up With It (1974) 3) Agharta (1975) 4) On The Corner (1972) 5) Bitches Brew (1970) 6) Live/Evil (1971) 7) Jack Johnson (1971) 8) Big Fun (1974) 9) Dark Magus (1977) 10) In A Silent Way (1969)

I hope you do an early Miles era!

Interesting Pete your comments on the Bitches Brew artwork. I had the opposite effect from yours I envisage back streets of a city like New York with that dirty grimy feel for the most part. I guess we all have our own takes but a great album and is my No.1 from the period.

Good job, Pete. I love Miles in all his forms. Could it be possible to do another review to the last decade of Miles? From the "man with the horn" to "Doo bop", there are some amazing productions like "Aura" or "Tutu". There is not so much work done on that era. Thank you!!