Sonny Sharrock Sonny recorded with Miles on the sound track of the film named A Tribute to Jack Johnson and on the album Yesternow. Interestingly enough, his participation in the sound track of A Tribute to Jack Johnson was not credited. The soundtrack also includes John McLaughlin as guitar player. His tenure with Miles was from 1970 to 1972 approximately. One of his greatest contribution to Miles's group can be seen in this quote from "The Sharrock way of knowledge" by Robert Palmer (1991), when Palmer said: "before rock guitarists began acquiring jazz-based chops - before Hendrix, before Cream - the R&B-seasoned guitarist Sonny Sharrock was whipping up sonic thunderstorms in the company of Pharoah Sanders and other seminal free-jazz players".
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He played on the title track of Herbie Hancock's Future Shock album, but did not appear on record again until Akira Sakata's album (with Sakata, Bill Laswell and Hamid Drake) in 2000. Throughout the '80s, he was involved in a number of Chicago- and New York-based groups with various musicians, but no recordings have been released. In 1987, Pete replaced Bill Frisell in the trio Power Tools with bassist Melvin Gibbs and drummer Ronald Shannon Jackson. In 2001, Pete started a group called Children of Agharta to explore the electric Miles Davis repertoire (WHE, 2001). In 2007-08, Cosey contributed to the CD Miles from India, which celebrates the music of Miles Davis. As history shows, the music of Miles Davis was always part of Pete's life, evidenced in his recordings and professional career; he always went back to the interpretation and exploration of Miles's music.
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Lucas and Cosey shared stage as Miles's guitar players. Reggie appeared on the following albums: Get Up With It, Agharta, Pangaea, Dark Magus and The Complete On The Corner Sessions released in 2007. Reggie was 19 years old when he was asked to join Miles's group. His contribution to Miles's group was a Hendrix influenced rock guitar style (Charles, 1999). In 1976, as stated in Lucas's bio, Miles took a hiatus of 4 years and Reggie went to play with Roberta Flack's band. Once with Roberta, Lucas started moving towards songwriting, with the ultimate goal of producing records, which came after playing with Miles. As an interesting note, Reggie became the producer of the majority of Madonna's 1983 self-title album, which he co-produced with percussionist Mtume. As stated in an interview with Mtume - “Once you finish with a genre, you move on.” Once you’ve crossed a bridge, burn it so you don’t allow yourself the opportunity to go back. I think I got that lesson from the years I spent with Miles Davis. He changed music three or four times, and the reason why he could do that is because he never looked back", a common thought shared between Lucas and Mtume (Mao, 2014).
Mike
He played on the title track of Herbie Hancock's Future Shock album, but did not appear on record again until Akira Sakata's album (with Sakata, Bill Laswell and Hamid Drake) in 2000. Throughout the '80s, he was involved in a number of Chicago- and New York-based groups with various musicians, but no recordings have been released. In 1987, Pete replaced Bill Frisell in the trio Power Tools with bassist Melvin Gibbs and drummer Ronald Shannon Jackson. In 2001, Pete started a group called Children of Agharta to explore the electric Miles Davis repertoire (WHE, 2001). In 2007-08, Cosey contributed to the CD Miles from India, which celebrates the music of Miles Davis. As history shows, the music of Miles Davis was always part of Pete's life, evidenced in his recordings and professional career; he always went back to the interpretation and exploration of Miles's music.
Reggie …show more content…
Lucas and Cosey shared stage as Miles's guitar players. Reggie appeared on the following albums: Get Up With It, Agharta, Pangaea, Dark Magus and The Complete On The Corner Sessions released in 2007. Reggie was 19 years old when he was asked to join Miles's group. His contribution to Miles's group was a Hendrix influenced rock guitar style (Charles, 1999). In 1976, as stated in Lucas's bio, Miles took a hiatus of 4 years and Reggie went to play with Roberta Flack's band. Once with Roberta, Lucas started moving towards songwriting, with the ultimate goal of producing records, which came after playing with Miles. As an interesting note, Reggie became the producer of the majority of Madonna's 1983 self-title album, which he co-produced with percussionist Mtume. As stated in an interview with Mtume - “Once you finish with a genre, you move on.” Once you’ve crossed a bridge, burn it so you don’t allow yourself the opportunity to go back. I think I got that lesson from the years I spent with Miles Davis. He changed music three or four times, and the reason why he could do that is because he never looked back", a common thought shared between Lucas and Mtume (Mao, 2014).
Mike