# Previously Unheard Miles Davis Album set for release: CD cover, Video

- Link: https://jazzblues.eu/2019/06/16/previously-unheard-miles-davis-album-set-for-release-cd-cover-video/
- Published: 2019-06-16T13:00:59+01:00
- Author: https://JazzBlues.EU

**Miles Davis shocked the music world in 1985 when he left Columbia Records after
30 years to join Warner Bros. Records. In October of that year, he began recording
the album Rubberband in Los Angeles at Ameraycan Studios with producers Randy Hall
and Zane Giles. **

The musical direction Davis was taking during the sessions marked a radical departure,
with the inclusion of funk and soul grooves, as well as plans to feature powerhouse
vocalists Al Jarreau and Chaka Khan. Eventually, the album was shelved, and Davis
went on to record Tutu, leaving the Rubberband songs unheard and untouched for over
30 years.

Davis’ fans finally got a taste of the iconic trumpeter’s long-lost album last year
with the release of a 4-track Rubberband EP for Record Store Day. Now Rhino/Warner
Records are excited to announce that the entire 11-track Rubberband album will make
its long-awaited debut on September 6th on CD, LP, and digitally. Finished by the
original producers Hall and Giles, and Davis’ nephew Vince Wilburn Jr., who played
the drums on the original sessions for the album in 1985-86, the album also features
newly recorded vocals from acclaimed US singers Lalah Hathaway (daughter of soul
legend Donny Hathaway) and the 12-time Grammy-nominated Ledisi.

Davis, who plays both trumpet and keyboards on the album, was joined in the studio
by keyboardists Adam Holzman, Neil Larsen and Wayne Linsey, percussionist Steve 
Reid, saxophonist Glen Burris, and Vince Wilburn, Jr. on drums. The sessions were
engineered by Grammy-winner Reggie Dozier, whose brother Lamont Dozier was part 
of the legendary Motown songwriting team Holland-Dozier-Holland.

Rubberband includes linear notes from George Cole, writer of The Last Miles, and
features an original painting by Miles Davis as the cover art.

**Track Listing:**

“Rubberband Of Life” – featuring Ledisi
 “This Is It” “Paradise” “So Emotional” –
featuring Lalah Hathaway “Give It Up” “Maze” “Carnival Time” “I Love What We Make
Together” – featuring Randy Hall “See I See” “Echoes In Time/The Wrinkle” “Rubberband”

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