Today's track in the "Music for a Melancholic Monday" series is a personal favorite, "In a Silent Way/It's About That Time" by Miles Davis. I discovered this during my short tenure as a student at Berklee College of Music. I was drawn to the synesthetic name of the album and I wanted to learn how music could be silent. Who better to teach me than the great Miles Davis? I listened to the album a few times in the Berklee Music Library, they had just about everything a guy could ever want to listen to, it was pretty close to heaven for a music junkie. Since the library eventually closed for the night, I decided that I liked In A Silent Way enough to buy it. This track (the second track on an album that only has two tracks) helped me through some tough times while I was living in Beantown.
Though I'm no expert, I can tell you that In A Silent Way (1969) comes from the beginning of Miles's more experimental era and this album would probably be classified as jazz-fusion. This was one of the recordings that helped launch guitarist John McLaughlin's career. I tend to be more of a fan of the bop and hard bop era, but this is one of the handful of fusion albums that I really like. If you need to grade a stack of papers or do some other mindless task, put this on and give it a listen. Or if you just want to stare out the window at grey skies, this track is the perfect accompaniment, I'm thinking of you East Coast friends.
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