Agharta (album)
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| Live album by Miles Davis | |||||
| Released | 1976 | ||||
| Recorded | February 1, 1975 | ||||
| Genre | Jazz fusion | ||||
| Length | 97:34 | ||||
| Label | Columbia Records | ||||
| Producer | Teo Macero | ||||
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Japanese edition design by Tadanori Yokoo.
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Agharta is an album recorded by jazz trumpeter Miles Davis in 1975. Both Agharta and Pangaea were recorded on the same day in Osaka, Japan. The Agharta concert took place during an afternoon matinee, while Pangaea was recorded in the evening.
[edit] Track listing
Disc One
- "Prelude (Part One)" – 22:37
- "Prelude (Part Two)" – 10:31
- "Maiysha" – 12:20
Disc Two
- "Interlude" – 26:50
- "Theme from Jack Johnson" – 25:16
All compositions by Miles Davis.
[edit] Personnel
- Miles Davis – trumpet, organ
- Sonny Fortune – soprano saxophone, alto saxophone, flute
- Michael Henderson – electric bass
- Pete Cosey – guitar, synthi, percussion
- Al Foster – drums
- Reggie Lucas – guitar
- Mtume – conga, percussion, water drum, rhythm box
[edit] Miscellanea
- About sixteen minutes into "Interlude", the band briefly play a psychedelic version of the theme from "So What", a track from Davis's Kind of Blue (1959).
- The Japanese CD pressing indexes both "Prelude"s into one track, and the entire second disc is also indexed as one 52-minute track. [1]
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