Doo-Bop

Doo-Bop
Studio album by Miles Davis
Released June 30, 1992
Recorded January 19 – February 1991
Studio Unique Recording
Genre Jazz rap, jazz, acid jazz, bebop
Length 40:02
Label Warner Bros.
26938
Producer Easy Mo Bee
Miles Davis chronology

Dingo
(1991)		 Doo-Bop
(1992)		 Miles & Quincy Live at Montreux
(1993)
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Doo-Bop was jazz musician Miles Davis' final studio album, which would have marked the beginning of his turn to hip-hop-oriented ("doo-bop" being a portmanteau of producer Easy Mo Bee's short-lived, new jack swing-derived "doo-hop" and "bebop"[2]) tracks. However, Davis died on September 28, 1991, at which time only six pieces for the album had been completed.[3] To finish off the album, producer Easy Mo Bee was asked to take some of the unreleased trumpet performances (stemming from what Davis called the RubberBand Session), and build tracks that Miles '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.[1]

The project stemmed from Davis sitting in his New York 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' collaboration with Easy Mo Bee, his last, the result of which, Doo-Bop, was released by Warner Bros. Records on June 30, 1992, to mixed reviews. The album won the 1993 Grammy Award for Best R&B Instrumental Performance.[4]

Track listing

All tracks composed by Miles Davis and Easy Mo Bee, except where indicated

Side one

  1. "Mystery"
  2. "The Doo Bop Song"
  3. "Chocolate Chip" (Davis, Easy Mo Bee, Donald Hepburn)
  4. "High Speed Chase" (Davis, Easy Mo Bee, Larry Mizell)

Side two

  1. "Blow"
  2. "Sonya"
  3. "Fantasy"
  4. "Duke Booty"
    • contains samples from "Jungle Strut" by Gene Ammons and "I'm Your Boogie Man" by KC & the Sunshine Band
  5. "Mystery (Reprise)"

External links

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Allmusic review
  2. ↑ "A little taste of the bebop sound with the backdrop / Of doo-hop / And this is why we call it / The doo-bop," from The Doo-Bop Song
  3. ↑ Miles Davis Community at Sony Music Entertainment.
  4. ↑ Doo-Bop at Amazon.