In a Silent Way

Better than Coldplay

Pleasant jazz album

The saxophones are getting louder

Profound, meditative, beautiful.

Bitches Brew is all aggressive "look at me" while this is its exact opposite.

One to live with and get to know.

40 minutes of some of the most hypnotic jazz music you're ever likely to hear. Definitely one of my favourite albums in the genre.

Shhhhhh

Shhh...Peaceful in a silent way .

Very chill, great in the background or dedicated listening.

Didn't love it. I don't think it's anything special. I wouldn't listen again. Ummm yeah it was fine.

Surprised to see it’s only 2 songs. It at least managed to keep my attention longer than the other instrumental albums so far. 6/10

This was my first time experience with Miles Davis and I loved it!

I am not a fan of instrumental Jazz but I know that any greatest hits list of the 70s will always include this gentleman’s Kind of Blue and Bitches Brew so was interested.
This was absolutely beautiful. It was like sparkling rain on my head tempered with rolling thunder. Never has a trumpet sounded so yearning. It made me happy in a way I can’t explain and I can only imagine that when I eventually get (I hope) his two greatest albums my head will explode with the sheer immensity of his work.

Spacey-fusion Miles is mijn favoriete Miles. Deze is een stuk toegankelijker dan Bitches Brew maar je hoort al heel goed welke kant het de jaren erna op zal gaan. Misschien wel de perfecte balans zo.

"What a short album! Oh...."
This is really what I needed this morning to settle me down after a chaotic drop off. I'm just curious about how he performed these songs! Did he just never take a break? I knew he was impressive but damn.

Well, I honesty don’t know how to feel about getting this recommended to me; I have this one on vinyl, and adore it to pieces, and I’ll get to that in a second, but I would hope to get more new albums in a second. Like wouldn’t it be so cool to get like a kinks album recommended? The typa stuff I wouldn’t normally listen to. This… I’ve already heard. Whatever though. I got like more than 900 albums still to go. Something like 986 I wanna say? One day at a time. But anyway this album is flawless. Shhh/peaceful is one of the most masterful pieces of jazz I’ve ever heard in my life, what with the way the guitars and organ interact in the track pan… I fell in love with music production because of that. And in a silent way is one of the most beautiful pieces of ambient-jazz type music I’ve ever, and probably single-handedly invented nu jazz. And it’s about that time… I mean have you heard that trumpet riff at around 13 minutes in?? It takes a titan to do something like that. And that’s what Miles Davis was, a titan. Uhh I don’t really got much more to say. This is like maybe the best jazz album ever though so it’s got that going for it
10/10

8.3

I was confused when I saw that there were only two songs. Then I looked closer and oh god. I get that this is more common for jazz, but I just haaate it. Call me too young for only being alive during the standard 3 minute song, but it's just the sweet spot like it or not. I enjoy longer songs, but it's just such a rare occurence for me. These songs clearly don't fit into that. The songs sound pretty much the same for ALMOST 20 MINUTES STRAIGHT. I'm sorry I just can't like this at all. I'm strictly rating based on how much I like the music. I just can't repeat this experience like ever. It doesn't sound bad. he wouldn't have been that popular if it did, it's just that... it's bland? I don't feel anything listening to this. It's cool and all, maybe it works best as some waiting room background music cause the type we have now is horrible.

Final thoughts: Not interesting to me in any way, sorry.

Miles has so many incredible records I've been listening to him since high school and somehow completely skipped this one. What an amazing sound world he created here. Somehow groovy and ambient at the same time. A new favorite.

Manche nennen es ein Meisterwerk. Ich nenne es: das längste Intro der Musikgeschichte – nur ohne den Song danach. In a Silent Way klingt, als hätte man eine Kreismusikschul-Combo mit einem Synthesizer allein im Studio gelassen und ihnen gesagt: „Spielt einfach irgendwas – wir nehmen alles.“

Was folgt, ist ein endloses, zielloses Geplänkel aus elektrifiziertem Gedudel, das sich für tiefgründig hält, aber in Wahrheit klingt wie der Soundtrack zu einem Aquarium-Bildschirmschoner. Miles Davis haucht sich durch seine Trompete, als würde er selbst nicht glauben, was da passiert, während die restliche Band zwischen „Ich hab den Einsatz verpasst“ und „Ich probier mal was“ pendelt.

Natürlich wird das Ganze als „revolutionär“ gefeiert – vermutlich von denselben Leuten, die auch Waschmaschinen-Geräusche als Ambient-Kunst verkaufen. Zwei Sterne gibt’s für den Mut, Jazz so konsequent zu entkernen, dass selbst eingefleischte Fans sich fragen: „Ist das noch Musik oder schon Konzeptkunst mit Nebenwirkungen?“

Sounds like NYC at night