{"id":53911,"date":"2025-06-05T22:50:30","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T20:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vinylgrove.nl\/?post_type=product&#038;p=53911"},"modified":"2026-03-03T13:16:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T12:16:26","slug":"davis-miles-63","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/vinylgrove.nl\/index.php\/product\/davis-miles-63\/","title":{"rendered":"Davis, Miles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Re: 11-04-2025<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Recorded When Miles Davis Opened for the Grateful Dead in San Francisco at Fillmore West:\u00a0<em>Black Beauty<\/em>\u00a0Surges Ahead into a Future Jazz World, Features Superb Performances and Rich Colors<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5><strong>First-Ever Domestic Vinyl Release of 1973 Live Album: Mobile Fidelity\u2019s Numbered-Edition 180g 33RPM 2LP Set Plays with Captivating Energy, Presence, and Clarity<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5><strong>1\/4&#8243; \/ 15 IPS analog copy to DSD 256 to analog console to lathe<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Dateline: April 10, 1970. Setting: The storied Fillmore West in San Francisco, CA. Context: Miles Davis, three days removed from his first session for\u00a0<em>Jack Johnson<\/em>\u00a0and, with newly recruited soprano saxophonist Steve Grossman in two, opening shows for countercultural heroes the Grateful Dead on the latter\u2019s home turf. Result: The initial rumblings of a thrilling era in which Davis and his cohorts would again upend jazz and popular conceptions of the genre with music steeped in groove, improvisation, and hang-on-for-your-life adventurousness. All captured on\u00a0<em>Black Beauty: Miles Davis at Fillmore West<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Mastered at MoFi\u2019s California studio, pressed at Fidelity Record Pressing in California, and housed in a Stoughton gatefold jacket, Mobile Fidelity&#8217;s numbered-edition 180g 33RPM 2LP set helps bring what went down that spring evening in Bill Graham\u2019s venue to your listening room with exceptional clarity, balance, and presence. Originally only released in Japan in 1973 and unavailable in the United States until the late \u201890s on compact disc, this marks the first time <em>Black Beauty\u00a0<\/em>has been issued on domestic vinyl. The wait is worth it.\u00a0 Given Davis was only a few months away from releasing the pioneering double album\u00a0<em>Bitches Brew<\/em>, it shouldn\u2019t come as a surprise that much of the fare here adheres to similar explorative approaches. Turbulent rhythms, provocative trumpet passages, and rich, saturated tonal colors that seemingly splash against a blank canvas take precedence over any traditional attempts at organization and melody.<\/p>\n<p>Tracklist:<\/p>\n<p>Side A:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Black Beauty Part I<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Side B:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Black Beauty Part II<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Side C:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Black Beauty Part III<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Side D:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Black Beauty Part IV<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black Beauty: Miles Davis At Fillmore West (2LP\/Gatefold)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":53912,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[2986],"product_cat":[26,32],"product_tag":[823],"class_list":{"0":"post-53911","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_brand-mofi","7":"product_cat-audiophile","8":"product_cat-jazz","9":"product_tag-mobile-fidelity-sound-lab","11":"first","12":"instock","13":"shipping-taxable","14":"purchasable","15":"product-type-simple"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vinylgrove.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/53911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vinylgrove.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vinylgrove.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vinylgrove.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vinylgrove.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vinylgrove.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=53911"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vinylgrove.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=53911"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vinylgrove.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=53911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}