Doo-Bop
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Producer | Easy Mo Bee | |||
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Doo-Bop is the final
Background
The project stemmed from Davis sitting in his New York City apartment in the summer with the windows open, listening to the sound of the streets. He wanted to record an album of music that captured these sounds. In early 1991, Davis called up his friend Russell Simmons and asked him to find some young producers who could help create this kind of music, leading to Davis's collaboration with Easy Mo Bee.
At the time of Davis's death in 1991, only six pieces for the album had been completed.[2] Easy Mo Bee was asked by Warner Bros. to take some of the unreleased trumpet performances (stemming from the unreleased 1985 album Rubberband, which was later released as an album in 2019), and build tracks that Davis "would have loved" around the recordings. The album's posthumous tracks (as stated in the liner notes) are "High Speed Chase" and "Fantasy". A reprise of the song "Mystery" rounded out the album's nine-track length.[3]
Release and reception
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The title is a play on words on the two musical genres
In a positive review,
Track listing
- All tracks written by Miles Davis/Easy Mo Bee, except where indicated:
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Mystery" | 3:56 | |
2. | "The Doo-Bop Song" | 5:02 | |
3. | "Chocolate Chip" | Davis, Easy Mo Bee, Donald Hepburn | 4:41 |
4. | "High Speed Chase" | Davis, Easy Mo Bee, Larry Mizell | 4:40 |
No. | Title | Length |
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5. | "Blow" | 5:07 |
6. | "Sonya" | 5:32 |
7. | "Fantasy" | 4:38 |
8. | "Duke Booty" | 4:56 |
9. | "Mystery (Reprise)" | 1:26 |
Personnel
Credits are adapted from The Last Miles (2007) by George Cole.[18]
Musicians
- Miles Davis – trumpet
- Deron Johnson – keyboards
- J.R – performer
- A.B. Money – performer
Production
- Easy Mo Bee – producer
- Matt Pierson – associate producer
- Gordon Meltzer – associate executive producer
- Daniel Beroff – engineer
- Reginald Dozier – engineer
- Zane Giles – engineer
- Randy Hall – engineer
- John McGlain – engineer
- Bruce Moore – engineer
- Arthur Steuer – engineer
- Kirk Yano – engineer
- D'Anthony Johnson – engineer, mixing
- Eric Lynch – engineer, mixing
- Ted Jensen – mastering
- Rodney Lucas – technical Services
- Faith Newman – production services
- Linda Burke – production services
- Robin Lynch – art direction
- Annie Leibovitz – photography
- Michael Benabib – photography
Charts
Chart (1992)[19] | Peak position |
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American Albums Chart | 190 |
American Jazz Albums Chart
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1 |
American R&B Albums Chart | 28 |
Certifications and sales
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Germany (BVMI)[20] | Gold | 10,000^ |
United States | — | 276,000[21] |
Summaries | ||
Worldwide | — | 300,000[4] |
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. |
References
- ^ Aldrich, Steve. "Doo-Bop". AllMusic. Retrieved 15 September 2018.
- ^ Miles Davis Community at Sony Music Entertainment.
- ^ a b AllMusic review
- ^ ISBN 978-1-4234-3076-6.
- ISBN 978-0857125958.
- ^ a b Sandow, Greg (August 21, 1992). "Doo-Bop". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved May 22, 2016.
- ^ a b Snowden, Don (July 26, 1992). "Miles Davis Leaves a Hip-Hop Finale". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved May 22, 2016.
- ^ a b Q: 70. September 1992.
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- ^ Britt, Bruce (June 18, 1992). "Miles Davis's 'Hip-bop' Disc Due June 30". Los Angeles Daily News. Retrieved May 22, 2016.
- ^ Freeman, Phil (October 29, 2014). "Miles Davis Albums From Worst To Best". Stereogum. Retrieved May 22, 2016.
- ISBN 9781610586825. Retrieved May 22, 2016.
- ^ Newman, Melinda; Morris, Chris; Morris, Edward, eds. (July 18, 1992). "Album Reviews". Billboard: 48. Retrieved May 22, 2016.
- ^ Williams, Richard (July 25, 1992). "Jazz: Miles Davis- Doo-Bop". The Independent. Retrieved May 22, 2016.
- ^ "June 1992". Musician: 96.
- ^ "THE 35TH ANNUAL GRAMMY AWARDS : Winners in Other Grammy Categories". Los Angeles Times. February 25, 1993. Retrieved May 22, 2016.
- ISBN 978-0472032600.
- ^ "Doo-Bop: Awards". AllMusic. Retrieved May 22, 2016.
- ^ "Gold-/Platin-Datenbank (Miles Davis; 'Doo Bop')" (in German). Bundesverband Musikindustrie.
- ^ Cwik, Greg (September 25, 2015). "Understanding Miles Davis, in 9 Parts". Vulture. Retrieved June 15, 2020.
Further reading
- Cole, George (n.d.). "Interview: Easy Mo Bee: The Doo-Bop Remix Project". TheLastMiles.com.
- Moon, Tom (March 14, 1993). "Mixing Hip-hop & Jazz Rappers Are Improvising. And Jazz Artists Are Picking Up The Beat. Is It A Fad Or The Future?". The Philadelphia Inquirer.