{"id":9822,"date":"2018-07-24T17:47:12","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T00:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=9822"},"modified":"2019-01-15T12:13:01","modified_gmt":"2019-01-15T20:13:01","slug":"monday-recommendation-pillows-electric-miles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2018\/07\/monday-recommendation-pillows-electric-miles\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Recommendation: Pillow&#8217;s Electric Miles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2LAVpEw\"><strong>Charles Pillow<\/strong> Large Ensemble, <em>Electric Miles<\/em><\/a> (Mama Records)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9823\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/81XX2d9q15L._SX522_-e1532479403923.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/>Whatever the title <em>Electric Miles<\/em> might lead you to expect, chances are that it wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be an album of non-electric big band music. A Louisiana alto saxophonist long since ensconced in New York, with skill and imagination Pillow arranges eight of the pieces with which Miles Davis surprised\u00e2\u20ac\u201deven shocked\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthe jazz establishment in one of the trumpeter\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s many influential next steps following the last phase in which he led a conventional quintet. The <em>Bitches Brew<\/em> album opened a new path for Davis and, to a considerable extent, for jazz. Pillow includes \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Bitches Brew,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d as well as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Sanctuary,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153In A Silent Way\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and five other pieces from Davis\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s electronic ventures. His writing for 16 pieces is alternately peaceful and stirring. In addition to his own soprano and alto solos, Pillow showcases trumpeters Tim Hagans and Clay Jenkins and, on \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Black Satin,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d David Liebman on soprano sax.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Pillow Large Ensemble, Electric Miles (Mama Records) Whatever the title Electric Miles might lead you to expect, chances are that it wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be an album of non-electric big band music. A Louisiana alto saxophonist long since ensconced in New York, with skill and imagination Pillow arranges eight of the pieces with which Miles Davis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9822","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-recommendations","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}