Miles Davis Black Beauty (2-CD)

"...features fine handoffs between Steve Grossman's squonking sax, Chick Corea's nastily distorted keyboards and Miles' milky, yearning, sometimes angry trumpet..."
"...With his inimitable trumpeting--by turns melancholy, pungent, and lyrical--at the music's center, his electrified cohorts stretch the limits of jazz, rock, and funk..."
- Rating: A-
3.5 stars (out of 5) - "A gritty recording.... Steve Grossman's soprano is featured throughout, and the fascinating rhythm section of Jack DeJohnette on drums and Dave Holland...keeps the grooves honest and open..."
"...a volatile state of molten flux, expanding, shredding and spinning off...in an acrobatic display of without-a-net aplomb..."
"...The ears-open interactivity of Davis' ensembles--that ability to engage in serious musical conversation while flying in the upper atmosphere--is enough to shame any current bebop-babbling jazz automaton..."