Live at the Oriental Theater 1966
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1966 |
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| Label (s) | Sunburn Records | |||
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2 CD |
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Title (number) |
10 |
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running time |
1:31:07 |
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Location (s) |
Oriental Theater, Portland, Oregon |
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Live at the Oriental Theater 1966 is an album by Miles Davis ; it contains a live recording of the Miles Davis Quintet with Wayne Shorter , Herbie Hancock and Tony Williams . Instead of Ron Carter , the band's regular bassist at the time, Richard Davis played this gig at the Oriental Theater in Portland . The recordings were released on June 17, 2014 on the reissue label Sunburn Records.
background
The recording is timed between Miles Davis' appearance at the Plugged Nickel in Chicago in December 1965 ( The Complete Live at the Plugged Nickel 1965 ) and the recordings for the studio album Miles Smiles in October 1966. The band's repertoire largely corresponds to that of the Plugged Nickel recordings, with the exception of "Gingerbread Boy" (the title was released on Miles Smiles in 1967 ) and the ballad "Who Can I Turn To?" By Anthony Newley , which the trumpeter never does regularly had recorded. "Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me)" was a popular show tune in the repertoire of vocalists such as Tony Bennett , Sammy Davis Jr. , Della Reese , Matt Monro and Dionne Warwick in the mid-1960s .
Track list
- Miles Davis Quintet: Live at the Oriental Theater 1966 (Sunburn 9339880)
CD 1
- Announcement 0:40
- Autumn Leaves ( Jacques Prévert , Johnny Mercer , Joseph Kosma ) 9:49
- Agitation (Miles Davis) 9:22
- Stella by Starlight ( Ned Washington , Victor Young ) 10:31
- Gingerbread Boy ( Jimmy Heath ) 11:44
CD 2
- The Theme (Miles Davis) 9:30
- All Blues (Miles Davis) 9:32
- Who Can I Turn To? ( Anthony Newley , Leslie Bricusse ) 8:51
- So What (Miles Davis) 9:06
- My Funny Valentine ( Lorenz Hart , Richard Rodgers ) 11:38
reception
Richard Brody ( The New Yorker ) named the album one of the most important archive discoveries of 2014 and wrote in The New Yorker: “Another Davis edition of a concert on May 21, 1966 at the Oriental Theater in Portland, Oregon, shows what was lost - and what was gained. It contains the quintet from the mid sixties (but with bassist Richard Davis instead of Carter). The music is acoustic and very free. Williams had played with saxophonists Eric Dolphy and Sam Rivers , and he was pushing the band towards an oceanic, pulse-free vortex that made itself felt when young bandmates Shorter and Hancock played solo. Although Williams was in rhythm for Davis, it was one of far-reaching, impressionistic breadth, with shimmering cymbal breaths and tom-tom rumble that pushed the beat into uncharted territory. Davis' solos became increasingly untied; he shaped them impulsively with outbursts and screams that elevated his excellent pointillist drama to Van Gogh-like slits and sounds. The soundscape of this majestically coherent but wildly bold band was still that of bebop ; the instrumentation was still that of the quintet , [a line-up] in which nineteen-year-old Davis played alongside Charlie Parker in 1945. "
Web links
- Listing of the album Live at the Oriental Theater 1966 on Allmusic (English). Retrieved April 27, 2019.
Notes and individual references
- ↑ The Oriental Theater was a classic movie theater that was built in 1927 next to the Weatherly Building and a few blocks from the Willamette River on the east side of the commercial center of Portland.
- ↑ Tom Lord : Jazz Discography (Online)
- ↑ Richard Brody: The Best Jazz Reissues of 2014. The New Yorker, December 9, 2014, accessed April 27, 2019 .