On the Corner 1709678 219146561 2008-06-13T20:01:25Z Dan56 6661051 {{Infobox Album | <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Albums --> | Name = On the Corner | Type = [[Album]] | Artist = [[Miles Davis]] | Cover = Miles Davis On The Corner.jpg | Released = [[Late]] [[1972]] | Recorded = [[June 1]] [[&]] [[6]]; [[July 7]] [[1972]] | Genre = [[Jazz]] | Length = 54:39 | Label = [[Columbia Records|Columbia]] | Producer = [[Teo Macero]] | Reviews = * [[Allmusic]] {{rating-5|5}} [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:38q8g40btv8z link] *''[[Rolling Stone]]'' (very favorable) [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/milesdavis/albums/album/102145/review/6067538/on_the_corner link] *[[Yahoo! Music]] (favorable) [http://music.yahoo.com/read/review/12035525 link] | Last album = ''[[A Tribute to Jack Johnson]]'' <br /> (1971) | This album = ''On the Corner'' <br /> (1972) | Next album = ''[[Big Fun (album)|Big Fun]]'' <br /> (1974) }} '''''On the Corner''''' is a [[jazz fusion]] [[album]] by [[Miles Davis]] recorded in June and July [[1972 in music|1972]]. It was scorned by critics at the time of its release and was one of Davis's worst-selling recordings. Its critical standing has improved dramatically with the passage of time; today it is seen as a strong forerunner of the musical techniques of [[post punk]], [[hip hop music|hip hop]], [[drum and bass]], and [[electronic music]]. Davis claimed that ''On the Corner'' was an attempt to connect with a young [[African American|black]] audience which had largely forsaken jazz for [[rock and roll|rock]] and [[funk]]. While there is a discernible rock and funk influence in the [[timbre]]s of the instruments employed, from a musical standpoint the album was a culmination of sorts of the [[musique concrète]] approach that Davis and [[Record producer|producer]] [[Teo Macero]] (who had studied with [[Otto Luening]] at [[Columbia University]]'s [[Computer Music Center]]) had begun to explore in the late 1960s. Both sides of the record were based around simple, repetitive drum and bass grooves (the track delineations below were arbitrary at best), with the "melodic" parts snipped from hours of meandering jams. These techniques, refined via the use of computers and digital audio equipment, are now standard amongst producers of electronically-based music. Also cited as musical influences on the album by Davis were the contemporary composer [[Karlheinz Stockhausen]], who was later falsely rumored to have recorded with the trumpeter in the late 1970s, and [[Paul Buckmaster]] (who played [[electric cello]] on the album and contributed some [[arrangement]]s). Joining previous multi-disc Davis reissues ''[[In a Silent Way]]'', ''[[A Tribute to Jack Johnson]]'' and ''[[Bitches Brew]]'', ''On the Corner'' was reissued on the 6-disc boxed set ''[[The Complete On the Corner Sessions]]'', released in September 2007. ==Track listing== ===Side A=== #"On the Corner / New York Girl / Thinkin' One Thing and Doin' Another / Vote for Miles" (19:55) #"Black Satin" (5:16) ===Side B=== #"One and One" (6:09) #"Helen Butte / Mr. Freedom X" (23:18) The 1993 [[compact disc|CD]] [[reissue]] of ''On the Corner'' (which has the "Columbia Jazz Masterpieces" logo stamped on the front cover) separates each "composition" into a distinct track so that the album has 8 tracks rather than 4. Later reissues returned the songs to their original, conflated status. ==Personnel== * [[Al Foster]] - [[drum]]s * [[Badal Roy]] – [[tabla]] * [[Bennie Maupin]] – [[bass clarinet]] * [[Carlos Garnett]] – [[soprano saxophone|soprano]] and [[tenor saxophone]] * [[Don Alias]] – [[Percussion instrument|percussion]] * [[Chick Corea]] – [[electric piano]] * [[Collin Walcott]] – [[electric sitar]] * [[Dave Liebman]] – soprano saxophone * [[David Creamer]] – [[electric guitar]] * [[Harold I. Williams]] – [[Organ (music)|organ]], [[synthesizer]] * [[Herbie Hancock]] – electric piano, synthesizer * [[Billy Hart|Jabali Billy Hart]] – drums, [[Bongo drum|bongos]] * [[Jack DeJohnette]] – drums * [[James Mtume|James "Mtume" Foreman]] – percussion * [[John McLaughlin (musician)|John McLaughlin]] – electric guitar * [[Khalil Balakrishna]] - electric sitar * [[Lonnie Liston Smith]] – organ * [[Michael Henderson]] – [[bass guitar|electric bass]] * [[Miles Davis]] – [[trumpet]] * [[Paul Buckmaster]] – [[cello]] ==External links== * [http://www.miles-beyond.com/otc.htm ''On the Corner'' track sheets at the ''Miles Beyond'' web site] {{Miles Davis}} [[Category:1972 albums]] [[Category:Miles Davis albums]] [[Category:Columbia Records albums]] [[Category:Jazz fusion albums]] [[Category:Legacy Recordings albums]] [[Category:Albums produced by Teo Macero]] [[fr:On the Corner]] [[it:On the Corner]] [[ja:オン・ザ・コーナー]] [[pl:On the Corner]]