''Miles Away'' is a jazz and fusion music album by Oxnard-based hip hop producer Madlib's Jazz virtual band ''The Last Electro-Acoustic Space Jazz & Percussion Ensemble.'' It's a group of fictional members all created by Madlib. It was released early in 2010 on

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in vinyl and CD format.

Reception

Track listing

All tracks composed, arranged, and produced by Madlib. # "Derf (For Derf Reklaw)" - 8:06 # "One For The Monica Lingas Band" - 6:28 # "Horace (For Horace Tapscott)" - 5:10 # "Waltz For Woody (For Woody Shaw)" - 3:57 # "Shades of Phil (For Phil Ranelin)" - 5:05 # "Black Renaissance (For Harry Whitaker)" - 6:07 # "Tones For Larry Young" - 5:15 # "Mystic Voyage (For Roy Ayers)" - 4:26 # "Two Stories For Dwight (For Dwight Tribble)" - 5:53 # "The Trane & The Pharoah (For John Coltrane & Pharoah Sanders)" - 9:23

Personnel

Credits adapted from liner notes. * Otis Jackson Jr. –

drums A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and other Percussion instrument, auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person. The player (drummer) typically holds a pair o ...

, percussion,

arrangement In music, an arrangement is a musical adaptation of an existing composition. Differences from the original composition may include reharmonization, melodic paraphrasing, orchestration, or formal development. Arranging differs from orches ...

* Emil Taylor – electric bass, fretless bass * Mary Lou Hudson –

congas The conga, also known as tumbadora, is a tall, narrow, single-headed drum from Cuba. Congas are staved like barrels and classified into three types: quinto (lead drum, highest), tres dos or tres golpes (middle), and tumba or salidor (lowest) ...

, tambourine * Chuck King –

fender rhodes The Rhodes piano (also known as the Fender Rhodes piano) is an electric piano invented by Harold Rhodes, which became popular in the 1970s. Like a conventional piano, the Rhodes generates sound with keys and hammers, but instead of strings, th ...

, wurlitzer * Teddy Davis – electric flute, percussion * Willie Austin – guitar,

harp The harp is a stringed musical instrument that has a number of individual strings running at an angle to its soundboard; the strings are plucked with the fingers. Harps can be made and played in various ways, standing or sitting, and in orche ...

* Kamala Walker –

organ Organ may refer to: Biology * Organ (biology), a part of an organism Musical instruments * Organ (music), a family of keyboard musical instruments characterized by sustained tone ** Electronic organ, an electronic keyboard instrument ** Hammond ...

accordion Accordions (from 19th-century German ''Akkordeon'', from ''Akkord''—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a reed ...

* Lady Faye – percussion * Clyde Harrison – acoustic piano * Ahmad Miller – sitar, vibraphone * Tanya Harrison –

moog synthesizer The Moog synthesizer is a modular synthesizer developed by the American engineer Robert Moog. Moog debuted it in 1964, and Moog's company R. A. Moog Co. (later known as Moog Music) produced numerous models from 1965 to 1981, and again from 20 ...

* Madlib – production * Peanut Butter Wolf – executive producer * Radek Drutis – artwork * Kelly Hibbert – mastering

References

2010 albums Madlib albums Stones Throw Records albums {{2010s-jazz-album-stub