Acid Jazz Junkie #1 - Doo-Bop

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One of my endeavors is rebuilding my acid jazz collection. Perhaps I'm not looking in the right places, but the acid jazz that I'm finding on vinyl is really, really expensive. So I'm going to collect my acid jazz on CD, just as it was before. And the other day I scored Miles Davis' 1992 album, Doo-Bop. My Miles Davis purchases are all going to be vinyl. Doo-Bop, however, is essentially an acid jazz album, even if Miles didn't set out to specifically make an acid jazz record. Doo-Bop was Miles Davis' final studio album (he actually passed away before the album was finished. Producer Easy Moe Bee completed the project by taking demos that Davis had been working on and built two songs around them. And you cannot tell the difference one bit. The liner notes let you in on the secret, though.) Doo-Bop is the result of Miles Davis spending a hot summer sitting in his New York apartment, listening to the streets through the open windows. Inspired to make an album that would get played on more than just jazz radio stations, Miles called Def Jam head honcho Russell Simmons and asked him to send over some young hip hop producers. Miles picked Easy Moe Bee, who would construct the songs. When he had them exactly how Davis wanted them, Miles would then do his trumpet parts, often nailing them in one take. The result? One hell of an acid jazz album. Three songs with neat rap lyrics, a lot of groovy jazz, and, of course, a whole lot of Miles' sweet, sweet muted trumpet! (Info verified by the liner notes)