In Paris Festival International de Jazz, May 1949
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| Live album by Miles Davis | ||||
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11 |
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41:33 |
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In Paris Festival International de Jazz, May 1949 is a jazz album by Miles Davis , accompanied by Tadd Dameron Quartet, which was recorded on May 8, 1949 at the Festival International 1949 de Jazz in the Salle Pleyel in Paris and was first recorded in 1977 on Columbia Records has been published. In Japan, the recordings were first released on compact discs in 1987.
background
Miles Davis appeared with Charlie Parker and Tadd Dameron in early 1949 at New York's Royal Roost jazz club ; on April 21 with a group led by Dameron, to which u. a. and JJ Johnson , Sahib Shihab , Cecil Payne , John Collins , Curley Russell and Kenny Clarke belonged studio recordings for Capitol Records . The following day, Davis recorded four nonet- cast songs for Capitol under his own name , which later appeared on the LP Birth of the Cool . He then traveled to Europe with Dameron, James Moody and Kenny Clarke, where she performed several evenings at the Festival International 1949 de Jazz with French bassist Barney Spieler . The African American trumpeter really enjoyed the atmosphere in town:
- It was a whole new feeling. The freedom to be in France and to be treated as a person. As an important person. Even our band's sound and music were better here.
Before the musicians play, a short concert announcement made by music critic Maurice Cullaz can be heard ( the most modern form of jazz, the bebop style ). Henri Renaud , who headed the jazz department of the French CBS in the 1970s, released the recording in November 1977.
Track list
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- Miles Davis & Tadd Dameron Quartet: In Paris Festival International De Jazz - May, 1949 (Columbia 82100, JC 34804)
- Rifftide ( Coleman Hawkins ) - 4:33
- Good Bait ( Count Basie , Tadd Dameron) - 5:47
- Don't Blame Me ( Dorothy Fields / Jimmy McHugh ) - 4:18
- Lady Bird (Tadd Dameron) - 4:59
- Wah Hoo (Cliff Friend) - 5:33
- Allen's Alley ( Denzil Best ) - 4:24
- Embraceable You ( Ira Gershwin / George Gershwin ) - 4:01
- Ornithology ( Charlie Parker / Benny Harris ) - 3:47
- All The Things You Are ( Oscar Hammerstein II / Jerome Kern ) - 4:11
reception
In Allmusic , Scott Yanow gave the recording 4½ (out of 5) points; he recalls that Miles Davis was known in the late 1940s for showing an alternate gameplay stance to Dizzy Gillespie and Fats Navarro ; playing in the middle registers, a softer tone and a more deliberate approach. In contrast, the concert recording shows that Miles Davis was quite capable of playing tough bebop like most of his contemporaries. In the quintet with James Moody and Tadd Dameron, Davis irritates the French audience by playing impressive high notes and depicting an extroverted personality. By never just fulfilling the expectations of his fans, he was already moving in surprising directions again.
For the Davis biographer Peter Wießmüller it is “difficult to imagine that the same musician who played“ Boplicity ”with the Capitol nonet just a few weeks earlier could blow the trumpet in the bop frame excellently arranged by Tadd Dameron [...] ." Miles Davis preferred "a powerful, broadly voiced style whose fiery attacks reach high registers that would have done the legendary Fats Navarro to full credit." Wießmüller emphasizes that the trumpeter "does not yet play with his own voice", but in the ballad Embraceble You "Nice to see his lyrical talent". The contributions of the other musicians would also be on a high musical level; “James Moody's phrasing was surprisingly modern for the time. Tadd Dameron's unusual piano style is represented just as well as Kenny Clarke's organization of the rhythmic basis ”. In Wießmüller's opinion, the festival "had an unusual after-effect on the entire French jazz scene, not least because of the Miles Davis performance."
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tom Lord Discography (online)
- ^ Miles Davis: Autobiography ; P. 166
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from February 16, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Review of the album Paris Festival International de Jazz, May 1949 by Scott Yanow at Allmusic (English). Retrieved January 29, 2015.
- ^ Wießmüller, Miles Davis , p. 91.
