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Dark Magus
''Dark Magus'' is a live double album by American jazz composer and trumpeter Miles Davis. It was recorded on March 30, 1974, at Carnegie Hall in New York City. Davis' group at the time included bassist Michael Henderson, drummer Al Foster, percussionist James Mtume, saxophonist Dave Liebman, and guitarists Pete Cosey and Reggie Lucas. He also used the show to audition saxophonist Azar Lawrence and guitarist Dominique Gaumont. ''Dark Magus'' was produced by Teo Macero and featured four two-part recordings titled after Swahili names for the numbers one through four.
''Dark Magus'' was released after Davis' 1975 retirement, upon which his label, Columbia Records, issued several albums of various outtakes. After releasing the live recordings ''Agharta'' (1975) and ''Pangaea'' (1976), Columbia decided that they did not approve of the albums and released ''Dark Magus'' only in Japan. It was issued in 1977 by CBS-Sony. The label's A&R executive Tatsu Nosaki suggested the album's title, which referred to the Zoroastrian religious figure Magus.
Along with Davis' other albums during the 1970s, ''Dark Magus'' was received ambivalently by contemporary music critics, but it inspired noise rock acts during the late 1970s and the experimental funk artists of the 1980s. The album was not released in the United States until July 1997, when it was reissued by Sony Records and Legacy Records. In retrospective reviews, critics praised its jazz-rock aesthetic and the group members' performances, and felt that parts of the music foreshadowed jungle music. In 2001, ''Q'' magazine named ''Dark Magus'' one of the 50 Heaviest Albums of All Time.
==Background==
Davis was 47 years old when he was asked to play Carnegie Hall in 1974, which followed four years of relentless touring. He had played the venue numerous times before and recorded a live album there in 1961. By 1974, Davis had been dealing with depression, cocaine and sex addictions, and several health problems, including osteoarthritis, bursitis, and sickle-cell anemia. He had also lost respect with both critics and his contemporaries because of his musical explorations into more rock- and funk-oriented sounds.〔 Influenced by Karlheinz Stockhausen, Davis wanted to avoid individual songs and instead record extended movements that developed into a different composition. He played his trumpet sparsely and became less of the focal point for his band, whom he allowed more freedom to improvise and with whom he rarely rehearsed, so that the young musicians he enlisted would be tested to learn and play together onstage.
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