In a Silent Way

Um, tell me, okay, I, we, we don't have to spend all the time on Skridli-

But later, I like, In a Silent Way and that whole electric period of Miles was, like, I love those records.

But I didn't really-

Oh, yeah

Yes.

And A Love Supreme and-

I mean, at the time, for me, it's In a Silent Way is, that, that's the album.

Okay.

Always makes people think, this one.

Okay, at the moment, greatest record, I'm having a real Miles Davis phase, and I've been listening to In a Silent Way repeatedly, so...

I'm going to say that's the greatest.

Latest, in terms of brand new, I'm really excited by the AG Cook produced dive record, which actually is, I don't think it's out for a few weeks, but there's a track on there that I absolutely adore called The Fountain.

And we discussed that at the time because he chose a song from Lanquidity, which is my second favourite jazz album of all time.

My number one being In a Silent Way by Miles Davis being my favourite.

And I think it's a great song.

But I didn't know Strange Strings, the album that you've chosen, and yet another rabbit hole you sent me down.

We all know that Miles Davis quote-unquote discovered the 22-year-old British bassist playing at Ronnie Scott's in London, where Holland was performing with Joe Henderson and invited him to come to New York and record with him just days later.

Dave Holland was suddenly part of jazz history, recording In A Silent Way and Bitches Brew with Miles, but perhaps Miles Davis' influence on Dave Holland's future career was also one of reaction.

Miles famously told Holland: "Dave, you're a bass player", and that was at odds with Holland's desire to perhaps free the bass from its traditional role, to treat it not simply as a supporting instrument, but as a voice with its own melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic freedom.

And so Holland eventually left the band to pursue a less traditional way of conceiving a jazz group.

on on replay on random shuffle like it is the i mean it's exactly what i need it is just like soul nourishing and so inspiring and i love it so i am listening to that um and also i discovered um like What I like to write to is Miles Davis.

And there's like an expanded, like complete sessions of the In a Silent Way sessions that he did that I'm really loving right now.

So I go back and forth between those two with a little Bjorg sprinkled around.

That's like my holy trinity right now.

So I was interested in musicians who could play formless and also improvise and bring different voicings and You know, and I obviously, I mean, there are two people, you can't compare them to these two people, but the one thing that obviously Miles Davis and also Bowie, like when they got people to collaborate, they're like, you do your thing.

They're not like, you know, Miles Davis used to give, we all know that in a silent way, he goes up to McLaughlin after the first stuff and he goes, this is shit, you know, you've got to play.

And they have to, you know, but he's not telling them how to play.

They're just saying, this isn't working.

That's why I'm interested in people coming in and going, well, what do you feel? And what do you, you know, so we had outlines, arrangements, we had arrangements.

um but yeah it was it was great good musicians amazing musicians

it's interesting you talk about it in a silent way um which is a very linear uh river journey you know i mean it just really you know one of my favorite albums of all time For sure.

Me too.