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1. 1 Intro 4:25
2. 2 White 6:02
3. 3 Yellow 6:45
4. 4 Orange 8:34
5. 5 Red 9:56
6. 6 Green 4:20
7. 7 Blue 6:33
8. 8 Electric Red 4:16
9. 9 Indigo 5:58
10. 10 Violet 9:01

Running order of the main release. Pressings may split it differently.

• 6:34 Blue
• 6:04 White
• 4:27 Miles Davis - Aura Intro 1989
• 1:06:34 Miles Davis - Aura (1989) [FULL ALBUM]
• 4:19 Miles Davis - Electric Red
• 8:21 Miles Davis- Green [Aura]
• 4:27 Intro (Album Version)
• 6:57 Miles Davis- Yellow [from Aura]

Release Date: 1989 Recording Period: Jan 1985 Label: Columbia Records Miles Davis, Trumpet Palle Mikkelborg, Composer, Flugelhorn, Producer, Trumpet John McLaughlin, Electric Guitar Vince Wilburn, Jr., Drums Marilyn Mazur, Percussion Benny Rosenfeld, Flugelhorn, Trumpet Palle Bolvig, Flugelhorn, Trumpet Jens Winther, Flugelhorn, Trumpet Jens Engel, Trombone Ole Kurt Jensen, Bass Trombone Perry Knudsen, Flugelhorn, Trumpet Idrees Sulieman, Flugelhorn, Trumpet Vincent Nilsson, Trombone Ture Larsen, Trombone Axel Windfeld, Bass Trombone, Tuba Jesper Thilo, Flute, Reeds Per Carsten, Flute, Reeds Uffe Karskov, Flute, Reeds Bent Jaedig, Flute, Reeds Flemming Madsen, Flute, Reeds Niels Eje, English Horn, Oboe Bjarne Roupee, Electric Guitar Lilian Thornquist, Harp Thomas Clausen, Keyboards, Piano Ole Koch-Hansen, Keyboards Kenneth Knudsen, Keyboards Bo Stief, Electric Bass Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen, Bass Lennart Gruvstedt, Drums Ethan Weisgaard, Percussion Eva Hess-Thaysen, Vocals 32nd Annual GRAMMY Awards, Feb 21, 1990 Won Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Soloist (On A Jazz Recording) Won Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Big Band Aura is a concept album by Miles Davis, produced by Palle Mikkelborg. 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 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.