Word: sectioning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Live at Philharmonic Hall finds Miles and company settling into a groove so deep it sounds like they might never come up. It is 1972, and the old rhythm section has replaced by a new one whose grounding is purely R&B. The difference shows itself as mind-bending, morphing rhythms are replaced by swirling cymbal crashes and striking beats. Dizzying bass acrobatics are replaced by percolating, rock-steady lines. The band seems to find one voice, and in tracks stretching up to 30 minutes long, the musicians lay into one repetitive groove after another with a vengeance. Miles...
Dark Magus, from 1974, serves as the culmination of the journey documented by these albums. By this time, the wall of sound Miles employs has grown to such an extent that it has become something new entirely. With three guitars, Miles playing organ and a relentless rhythm section, Dark Magus becomes a sea of sound--a dense, nearly opaque collage of crashing rhythms, slamming funk and inspired, wild soloing. Unlike Philharmonic Hall, where the soloists largely stayed in the vein of the steady funk of the band, the soloists in Dark Magus can barely be contained. As horn player Dave...
...year, for example, I'm not going to panic over my work. I'm not going to talk back to people. Plus, I'm not going to let little things bother me--like all those times that I groan a little too loudly when that annoying kid in my section starts pontificating for the 100th time...
...great so far," said Robert Bruce, a teaching fellow in the class. "I think the students have been able to tie together the textbook with section work in a more efficient manner than before...
Students have expressed gratitude that they can now catch the shuttle bus after late-night parties or hop on the shuttle for a quick ride home to retrieve a forgotten paper or textbook for section...