Miles Davis – Get Up With It
One of the great underrated Miles albums, Get Up With It pushes forward with the full force, sophistication, groove, and beautiful chaos of Miles’ electrified wah-wah trumpet and organ. The sweetness of In A Silent Way and Kind of Blue may be gone from Miles’ music during this period (he suffered lasting injuries from a car crash in 1972), but left in its place was a wild, drug-fueled creativity that broke apart the very foundations of jazz. Miles would fall into a dark depression not long after the album was released… For a deep dive into the album, we highly recommend checking out our friend Andy Beta’s writeup on Pitchfork.
Recommended – Full Listen
A He Loved Him Madly
B1 Maiysha
B2 Honky Tonk
B3 Rated X
C Calypso Frelimo
D1 Red China Blues
D2 Mtume
D3 Billy Preston
Arranged By [Brass] – Wade Marcus (tracks: D1)
Arranged By [Rhythm] – Billy Jackson (tracks: D1)
Bass [Fender Bass] – Michael Henderson
Calligraphy [Hand Lettering] – Andy Engel
Congas [Conga] – Mtume* (tracks: A, C, D1)
Design – Teresa Alfieri
Drums – Al Foster (tracks: A, B1, B3 to D3), Bernard Purdie (tracks: D1), William Cobham* (tracks: B2)
Engineer [Recording Engineer] – Stanley Tonkel*
Engineer [Remix engineer] – John Guerriere, Stan Weiss
Flute – David Liebman (tracks: A, C)
Guitar – Cornell Dupriee* (tracks: D1), Dominique Gaumont (tracks: A, B1), John McLaughlin (tracks: B2), Pete Cosey (tracks: A, B1, C, D2), Reggie Lucas (tracks: A, B1, B3, C, D2, D3)
Harmonica – Wally Chambers (tracks: D1)
Keyboards [Keyboard] – Herbie Hancock (tracks: B2), Keith Jarrett (tracks: B2)
Organ – Cedric Lawson (tracks: D3), Miles Davis (tracks: B1, B3, C, D2)
Percussion – Airto Moreira (tracks: B2)
Percussion [African Percussion] – Mtume* (tracks: B1, B3, D2, D3)
Photography By [Cover Photograph] – Giuseppe Pino
Photography By [Inside Photo] – Paul Slaughter
Piano – Cedric Lawson (tracks: B3), Miles Davis (tracks: C1, D3)
Producer – Billy Jackson (tracks: D1), Teo Macero
Saxophone [Sax] – Carlos Garnett (tracks: D3), John Stubblefield (tracks: C)
Saxophone [Sax], Flute – Sonny Fortune (tracks: B1, D2)
Sitar – Khalil Balakrishna (tracks: B3, D3)
Soprano Saxophone [Soprano Sax] – Steve Grossman (tracks: B2)
Tabla – Badal Roy (tracks: B3, D3)
Trumpet – Miles Davis (tracks: A to B2, D1, D2)
Written-By – M. Davis*