Author: Miles Davis
Title: Aura
Category: Electronic, Jazz
Style: Fusion
Year: 1989
Notes: Aura is a concept album by Miles Davis, produced by Palle Mikkelborg, Date of released in 1989. All compositions and arrangements are by Danish composer/trumpeter Palle Mikkelborg, who created the suite in tribute to Miles Davis when Davis received the Léonie Sonning Music Prize in December 1984, the year Decoy was Date of released.

The main theme consists of 10 notes, yielded by the letters "M-I-L-E-S-D-A-V-I-S" (see "BACH motif", and Schoenberg hexachord "EsCHBEG"). It is introduced at the beginning over a sustained chord of these same notes. The following 9 movements of the suite represent the colours Mikkelborg sees in Miles's aura.

The music is scored for an extended jazz big band, and the core of the band is formed by the Danish Radio's Big Band, featuring Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Thomas Clausen and Marilyn Mazur. Notable international guests such as John McLaughlin and Davis' nephew Vince Wilburn are featured during the recordings. They took place in Copenhagen in 1985 at Davis' own initiative, as he had been very honored and satisfied with the suite. It was the first time Miles Davis recorded with a big band for over 20 years. Aura, however, is not a conventional big band jazz album. The music is perhaps best categorized as fusion jazz with a strong flavor of modern classical music, as many of the orchestral passages reveal Mikkelborg's inspiration from composers like Olivier Messiaen and Charles Ives.

Although the album was recorded at Easy Sound Studios in Copenhagen in 1985, contractual issues delayed its release until 1989. The album won a Grammy Award in 1990 for Best Jazz Instrumental Performance. Rating: 4.4
Format: FLAC DMF MMF AU AA MPC DTS FLAC MP3
MP3 album RAR size: 1498 mb | FLAC album RAR size: 1412 mb

Tracklist

Intro	4:25
White	6:02
Yellow	6:45
Orange	8:34
Red	9:56
Green	4:20
Blue	6:33
Electric Red	4:16
Indigo	5:58
Violet	9:01

Versions Find Your Version

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
463351 2	Miles Davis	Aura ‎(CD, Album)	CBS	463351 2	Europe	1989
463351 1	Miles Davis	Aura ‎(2xLP, Album)	CBS	463351 1	Europe	1989
463351 1	Miles Davis	Aura ‎(2xLP, Album)	CBS	463351 1	Spain	1989
463351 1	Miles Davis	Aura ‎(2xLP, Album)	CBS	463351 1	Australia	1989
c2x 45332	Miles Davis	Aura ‎(2xLP, Album)	CBS	c2x 45332	US	1989
C2x 45332, C 45080, C 45081	Miles Davis	Aura ‎(2xLP, Album, RE)	Columbia, Columbia, Columbia	C2x 45332, C 45080, C 45081	US	1989
CK 45332	Miles Davis	Aura ‎(CD, Album)	Columbia	CK 45332	US	1989
463351 4	Miles Davis	Aura ‎(Cass, Album)	CBS	463351 4	Europe	1989
CTX 45332, TX45332	Miles Davis	Aura ‎(Cass, Album)	CBS, CBS	CTX 45332, TX45332	US	1989
463351 2	Miles Davis	Aura ‎(CD, Album, RE)	Columbia, CBS	463351 2	Europe	1991
SRCS 5728	Miles Davis	Aura ‎(CD, Album, RE)	Sony Records	SRCS 5728	Japan	1991
SRCS 9327	Miles Davis	Aura ‎(CD, Album, Ltd, RE, RM, Pap)	Sony Records	SRCS 9327	Japan	1997
CK 63962	Miles Davis	Aura ‎(CD, Album, RE)	Columbia	CK 63962	US	2000
CK 63962, 0639622000	Miles Davis	Aura ‎(CD, Album, RE, RM)	Columbia, Legacy	CK 63962, 0639622000	Europe	2000
CK 63962, 0639622000	Miles Davis	Aura ‎(CD, Album, RE, RM)	Columbia, Legacy	CK 63962, 0639622000	Australia	2000
CK 63962, 0639622000	Miles Davis	Aura ‎(CD, Album, RE, RM, Unofficial)	Columbia , Legacy	CK 63962, 0639622000	Russia	2000
SRCS- 9743	Miles Davis	Aura ‎(CD, Album)	SME Records	SRCS- 9743	Japan	2001
SICP-852	Miles Davis	Aura ‎(CD, Album, RE, RM, Dig)	Sony Records Int'l	SICP-852	Japan	2005
SICJ 88	Miles Davis	Aura ‎(CD, Album)	CBS	SICJ 88	Japan	2015
none	Miles Davis	Aura ‎(CD, Album, Unofficial)	Limited Edition	none	Russia	Unknown
035	Miles Davis	Aura ‎(Cass, Album, Unofficial)	F&R	035	Poland	Unknown

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