Big Fun (studio album)
by Miles Davis

Miles Davis bestography

Big Fun is ranked 26th best out of 125 albums by Miles Davis on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Miles Davis is Kind Of Blue which is ranked number 37 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 22,263.

Miles Davis album bestography « Higher ranked (5,773rd)
Bags' Groove
This album (5,890th)
Big Fun
Lower ranked (6,401st) »
Miles In The Sky

(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).

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Big Fun track list

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Average Rating: 
76/100 (from 63 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 4% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 76.5/100, a mean average of 77.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 11.0.

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90/100
From 04/14/2025 02:26
Each one of these tracks is like a giant, sprawling-yet-hypnotic, abstract painting masterwork.

Messy, futuristic, underrated.
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From 12/05/2024 04:11
Brilliant, spacey compositions from a cast of jazz immortals. Similar in vein to In A Silent Way and almost as good
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From 08/09/2016 23:13
Superb album. The tracks are taken from about three or four sessions over the course of a few years, but it all holds together brilliantly. The first disc is completely hypnotic, the second is probably musically better, but both discs are excellent. It's a superb chill out album. Totally underrated and overlooked.
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75/100
From 08/19/2011 01:46
Unexplainable how this album wasn't on the site, you're never gonna find a more eclectic piece, I've become a huge fan of Miles electric period and although this may not be as extraordinary as In A Silent Way or as ambitious as Bitches Brew it has more vibe and rhythm and it flows adequately through the amazing talent that appears on it (Zawinul, Hancock, Chick Corea, etc.), Four tracks, 20-30 minutes each, complex arangements, amazing tempo changes, superb production, jazz doesn't get any bigger than this...
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