Live at the 1963 Monterey Jazz Festival
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CD |
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6th |
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51:24 |
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Tim "T-Bone" Jackson, Glen Barros |
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Monterey Jazz Festival |
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Live at the 1963 Monterey Jazz Festival is a posthumous album by Miles Davis . The recordings, which were made at the Monterey Jazz Festival on September 20, 1963, were released on July 31, 2007 as a compact disc on Monterey Jazz Festival Records ( Concord Music Group ).
background
Two months after the Miles Davis Quintet performed at the Antibes Jazz Festival (July 27-28, 1963), this concert was documented in the early autumn of 1963 at the Monterey Jazz Festival. In May of this year, the trumpeter founded the band around the visionary young rhythm section with pianist Herbie Hancock , bassist Ron Carter and 16-year-old Tony Williams . The live recording is another example of Davis' "transition period" from 1960 to 1964, between his "first great quintet" with tenor saxophonist John Coltrane and the "second great quintet" with Wayne Shorter , wrote Samuel Chells. “First there was the fascinating contrast between Davis 'free approach and the systematic bebop vocabulary of Reedman Sonny Stitt , then there was Davis' subtle urbanity in contrast to the musky, bluesy, outrageously soulful tenor of Hank Mobley , and here it is restless and searching Davis compared to the pure, open sound and “singing” approach of tenor saxophonist George Coleman ”.
Track list
- Miles Davis - Live at the 1964 Monterey Jazz Festival (Monterey Jazz Festival Records MJFR-30312)
- Waiting for Miles 0:41
- Autumn Leaves ( Jacques Prévert , Johnny Mercer , Joseph Kosma ) 11:24
- So What (Miles Davis) 11:20
- Stella by Starlight ( Ned Washington , Victor Young ) 14:35
- Walkin '(Richard Carpenter) 12:48
- The Theme (Miles Davis) 1:16
reception
Michael G. Nastos gave the album four stars in Allmusic and said, “Collectors and completeists will appreciate this edition, and as a bridge between the short-lived band with Sam Rivers , the group with Victor Feldman who recorded Seven Steps to Heaven , and the legendary quintet of the mid-1960s, it provides an important basis for what it took to take Davis' music to an even higher level. It's easy to recommend, even for beginners, a very good rendering of Miles Davis at the forefront of modern mainstream jazz . "
Samuel Chells wrote in All About Jazz that the overall sound of the recording was spacious, “but still very close and vivid, while every note is crystal clear and guarantees the listener to grasp every detail, from Hancock's delicate voices to Williams' innovative, often surprising Punctuation. Furthermore, everyone seems to be unusually committed to swinging and making up melodies. ”At the time of the Plugged Nickel sessions , the author says, the group played with a more confident, calculated, and mental approach to melody, harmony, and tempo. This recording can be counted as an indispensable addition to the canon of an important artist of 20th century music.
John Fordham also gave the album a four-star rating in the Guardian, saying it was a document of transition “because the music still reflects the bebop and standards-based music that drove Miles' bands in the late 1950s, and at the same time, looking ahead at the more abstract possibilities arising from the reduced modal structures introduced on Milestones and Kind of Blue . Saxophonist George Coleman, an overlooked figure in Miles history but a great, if orthodox virtuoso, sets off a few avalanches of hard improvisation. ”Fordham continued:“ The previous albums Seven Steps to Heaven and Miles in Antibes also represent that hot summer of 1963 - so this might be an option for completists, but it's a very compelling one. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Review of the album at Allmusic (English). Retrieved February 27, 2020.
- ^ A b Miles Davis, Live at the 1963 Monterey Jazz Festival. The Guardian, November 30, 2007, accessed February 28, 2020 .
- ^ A b Miles Davis: Live at the 1963 Monterey Jazz Festival. All About Jazz, October 27, 2007, accessed February 28, 2020 .
- ↑ Miles Davis - Live at the 1963 Monterey Jazz Festival at Discogs