Miles Davis
Agharta (2LP)
Label4 Men With BeardsGenreJazz & Improvisation
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condition (records/cover): NM / EX
Gatefold sleeve. No insert.
February 1st, 1975, Osaka, the afternoon show. Miles Davis was in constant physical pain, months away from a retirement that would last five years, and playing with a band that had refined the electric approach into something genuinely unprecedented: Pete Cosey sitting cross-legged behind a table of effects making guitar sounds that had no name yet, Reggie Lucas and Michael Henderson holding down a groove of immense weight, Sonny Fortune supplying the only conventionally beautiful sound in the room. Two hours of it, unedited. The evening performance became Pangaea. Together they are the last word on the whole period.
Reissue on 4 Men With Beards, double LP with the original Tadanori Yokoo artwork. Still one of the most extreme records ever released by a major label.
Release notes
Recorded live at Osaka Festival Hall, Japan, February 1, 1975. 180 gram gatefold Includes insert Special Thanks to the Yomiuri Shinbun, Yamaha
| A | Prelude (Part One) | 22:34 | |
| B | Prelude (Part Two) / Maiysha | 23:01 | |
| C | Interlude / Theme From Jack Johnson (Part One) | 26:17 | |
| D | Interlude / Theme From Jack Johnson (Part Two) | 25:59 |
- Tadanori Yokoo
- Artwork
- Michael Henderson
- Bass [Fender]
- Mtume
- Congas [Conga], Percussion, Drum [Water Drum], Drum Machine [Rhythm Box]
- Al Foster
- Drums
- Tomoo Suzuki
- Engineer
- Mitsuru Kasai
- Engineer [Assistant]
- Takaaki Amano
- Engineer [Assistant]
- Reggie Lucas
- Guitar
- Pete Cosey
- Guitar, Synthesizer, Percussion
- Shigeo Anzai
- Photography By
- Tadayuki Naitoh
- Photography By
- Teo Macero
- Producer
- Keiichi Nakamura
- Product Manager [CBS/Sony]
- Sonny Fortune
- Soprano Saxophone, Alto Saxophone, Flute
- Miles Davis
- Trumpet, Organ, Composed By
