DOO BOP - Final Miles Davis Album (Review) - Part of the Easy Mo Bee and Miles Davis Fantasy
For me, music and life are all about style. - Miles Davis
In modern music, a music lover often finds a giant change in any band or musician, which can often be understood negatively or may be highly praised by critics. We met many examples of this in the monolithic and rich history of world music. I decided to talk about the legendary Miles Davis' final studio album "Doo-Bop", which came out a few months after his death and was initially criticized negatively, but nevertheless the album still won the 1993 Grammy award for Best R&B instrumental performance. American producer and rapper Easy Mo Bee was already famous for the period when he met Davis to help him to create the latest studio experimental album. The main inspiration for Miles was the street noises and youth. He was always interested in what young people were creating. Doo-Bop is a visual album of thoughts and ideas of a jazz musician full of youthful spirit and at the same time immensely experienced (many people consider Doo-Bop as separate jazz, jazz-rap, Funk, jazz-fusion and R&B album (by the way, it has also many rock and trip-hop elements (by the sounds of drum beats), But Doo-Bop is an astonishing synthesis of these genres) ). Most of the songs included in Doo-Bop are completed after Miles's death, with the help of his trumpet sampled recordings. The sound of this trumpet is immortal and therefore no studio change can replace its beauty and power. The album was created at the highest level. The sound quality is really amazing and all of these instruments can be heard flawlessly.The album uses some famous song samples. For example: beloved American band Kool & The Gang's tracks: Summer Madness and Jungle Boogie; Also Rapper Slick Rick's 1985 single "La Di Da Di".
Doo-Bop's first instrumental is called Mystery. The music is enigmatic, followed by an amazing synthesizer bass line (Easy Mo Bee says no real bass guitar was used on the album, which makes the album more interesting. Each bass part of the album is performed on a synthesizer) and odd rhythms with a melancholy in each of them. Miles trumpet speaks and tells stories about Miles's past and present. Davis has gone through a long, but difficult life path and the music makes it feel very noticeable. The second song is called The Doo Bop Song (This is not an instrumental, it's a song. There are 3 songs out of 9 on the album, and the rest is instrumental.) Easy Mo Bee was a member of "Rappin 'Is Fundamental "and this song is performed by this trio. The other two performers in the trio are A.B. Money and Mr. Styles. Basically Easy Mo Bee raps while the other two members add harmonic vocals. The text includes one interesting part where the producer's very positive attitude towards Miles:
"Lets kick a verse for my man called Miles
'Cause seems to me his music's gonna be around for a long while
'Cause hes a multi-talented and gifted musician
Who can play any position "...
After Doo-Bop, the instrumental is called the Chocolate Chip. The instrumental is more lively and maybe sweeter than the first track. The album includes electric guitar. The instrumentation is basically packaged at one pace. The sound and tone of Miles trumpet seem to come out of a sad background and take on a more happy vision. The fourth instrumental is called High Speed Chase, which is the fastest- musical movement in Doo-Bop. I momentarily remembered the psychedelic rock of the 60s. The effect of the synthesizer is very similar to the accelerated psychedelic emotions. Elements of industrial electronic music are also felt. Easy Mo Bee showed the great respect of Miles to one of the greatest jazzmen: Jaco Pastorius, with the bassline of this composition. Miles plays fast and chaotically. It does not follow standards. It can be said that Miles is the ambassador of free music to the world. Blow - that’s the name of the next song that is one of the most interesting on "Doo Bop". The trumpet continues to speak again, and this time Easy Mo Bee tells us about Miles and his connected musical journey:
"Here I am, Easy Mo Bee
Kickin 'it live with the legendary
Miles Davis Just my favorite
And his trumpet can't be played with
Tampered with or picked up and thrown to the pavement
With the left and right, boy, the right, the left
Wherever microphone is kept
You'll be sure to hear Miles do the woobity shoo bop
Just to show us he be created for doo-hop
Not doo-wop, but beebop mixed with hip hop ... "
The trumpet goes here and there and invites us to follow this familiar and beautiful voice. We too inadvertently follow this voice. The trumpet in the composition has an amazingly clean sound and really delights any listener. After the album, the instrumental called "Sonya" is accompanied by a memorable slap bass line. Easy Mo Bee wanted a bass sound to be realistic. It does seem to be a synthetic bass, but the bass solo is awesome in this case as well. The seventh song on the album's next is Fantasy. This composition is distinguished by the fact that the background is accompanied by the sound of a beautiful sitar or some nameless Asian instrument (which may not even exist). A similar sound is followed by the Miles trumpet, orchestral voices and then in unison these sounds are crossed by Easy Mo Bee's words to Miles:
"... That's where you seek for the need of a chance to be
Part of the Easy Mo Bee and Miles Davis fantasy
Yeah What I mean
What of the words?
For your mind, one time
Get up, stop Take it, Miles " ...
...and again Miles speaks in a peculiar way to the trumpet, and we, his faithful listeners, understand what he means by these notes and this harmonious wordless speech. The eighth instrumental of the album is called Duke Booty, at the beginning of which we hear Miles' raspy voice. He addresses Deron Johnson, an American pianist who performs the role of pianist on this album: Deron, you gon 'play behind me, and then whatever's. This composition is a strange synthesis of sadness and joy. The musical background is more fun, but Miles still plays sadly. The album ends with Mystery (Reprise). That's the album's masterpiece from Miles Davis's last genius breath. He spent his whole life trying to release the best album and with each album he was improving more and more on such a difficult goal. The final composition is an almost identical and abbreviated rendition of the first instrumental, which deserves love from all over the world, as Miles Davis weaves the richest and highest power in each note. Doo Bop is a brilliant example of an album about how one of the most innovative and finest musician of the 20th century (and of all time) should say goodbye to the earth. Miles told us what he meant by Doo-Bop and this album still amazes the listener with its mysteries, fantasy, musicality, sadness and joy.
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