Miles & Quincy Live at Montreux
| Miles & Quincy Live at Montreux | |
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| Live album by Miles Davis , Quincy Jones | |
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Publication |
1993 |
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admission |
July 8, 1991 |
| Label (s) | Warner Bros. Records |
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Format (s) |
CD, LP |
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jazz |
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Title (number) |
13 + 3 |
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running time |
56:42 |
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Quincy Jones, Claude Nobs , Louise Velazquez |
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Miles & Quincy Live at Montreux is a jazz album by the musicians Miles Davis and Quincy Jones . It was recorded during the 1991 Montreux Jazz Festival . Jones also co-produced the festival. The album was awarded a Grammy in 1994 for "Best Performance by a Large Jazz Ensemble".
History of origin
In the years before, Davis had experimented with various combinations of jazz with rock, funk, pop and rap and distanced himself far from the bebop and cool jazz of his recordings in the 1940s and 1950s, with some very negative reactions from jazz critics, but with Grammy on the other - and sales successes.
Jones had long spoken with Davis about the rerun of the recordings of Miles Davis and Gil Evans . He was only able to convince him of the project at the 1991 Montreux Jazz Festival.
The music
Davis returns to his musical roots in the performance documented in this album, some of which went back forty years and "surprised jazz fans". For example, Boplicity , with the well-known photo taken on April 22, 1949, is a reference point long ago.
The musical material comes from the collaboration between Davis and Evans, namely from the albums Birth of the Cool , Miles Ahead , Porgy and Bess and Sketches of Spain .
The music has an orchestral character due to the large cast that resulted from the union of the Gil Evans Orchestra and the George Gruntz Concert Jazz Band.
criticism
Some critics like Mark Deming see this album as "a recording of this historic concert, which turned out to be Davis' last great triumph on stage" ( Mark Deming ).
Others completely reject the work, such as Hans Sterner, “In the process, the once subtly designed orchestrations were watered down to the level of cheap mainstreams. Even from the rich timbres in Gil Evans' idiosyncratic instrumentation with tuba and bass trombone or French horn only a pale reflection remained. In addition, the musicians of the original sessions got along better with spotted, sharply accented notes. It is particularly painful that Miles Davis no longer managed to alternate between warmth and cutting cold in his solos. "( Hans Sterner )
Most jazz critics see this in a more nuanced way, but mostly agree with Ron Wynn that this performance does not always come close to the arrangements of Gil Evans.
Track list
- Introduction by Claude Nobs & Quincy Jones - 1:23
- Boplicity - 3:40 (A)
- Introduction to Miles Ahead Medley - 0:09
- Springsville - 3:34 (B)
- Maids Of Cadiz - 3:37 (B)
- The Duke - 4:01 (B)
- My Ship - 4:11 (B)
- Miles Ahead - 3:39 (B)
- Blues For Pablo - 6:04 (B)
- Introduction to Porgy And Bess Medley - 0:28
- Orgone - 4:09 ()
- Gone, Gone, Gone - 1:48 (C)
- Summertime - 2:54 (C)
- Here Come De Honey Man - 3:41 (C)
- The Pan Piper - 1:40 (D)
- Solea - 11:44 (D)
(A) First published on Birth of the Cool , recorded in 1949
(B) First published on Miles Ahead , recorded in 1957
(C) First published on Porgy and Bess , recorded in 1958
(D) First published on Sketches of Spain , recorded in 1959/60
Cast in detail
The Gil Evans Orchestra
- Lew Soloff (trumpet)
- Miles Evans (trumpet)
- Tom Malone ( trombone )
- Alex Foster (alto and soprano saxophone, flute)
- George Adams (tenor saxophone, flute)
- Gil Goldstein (keyboard)
- Delmar Brown (keyboard)
- Kenwood Dennard (drums, percussion)
The George Gruntz Concert Jazz Band
- Marvin Stamm (trumpet, flugelhorn)
- John D'Earth (trumpet, flugelhorn)
- Jack Walrath (trumpet, flugelhorn)
- John Clark (French horn)
- Tom Varner (French horn)
- Dave Bargeron (euphonium, trombone)
- Earl McIntyre (euphonium, trombone)
- Dave Taylor (bass trombone)
- Howard Johnson (tuba, baritone saxophone)
- Sal Giorgianni (alto saxophone)
- Bob Malach (tenor saxophone, flute, clarinet)
- Larry Schneider (tenor saxophone, oboe, flute, clarinet)
- Jerry Bergonzi (tenor saxophone)
- George Gruntz (piano)
- Mike Richmond (bass)
- John Riley (drums, percussion)
- Wallace Roney (trumpet, flugelhorn)
Additional musicians from the George Gruntz Concert Jazz Band
- Manfred Schoof (trumpet, flugelhorn)
- Ack van Rooyen (trumpet, flugelhorn)
- Alex Brofsky (French horn)
- Roland Dahinden (trombone)
- Claudio Pontiggia (French horn)
- Anne O'Brien (flute)
- Julian Cawdry (flutes)
- Hanspeter Frehner (flutes)
- Michel Weber (clarinet)
- Christian Gavillet (bass clarinet, baritone saxophone)
- Tilman Zahn (oboe)
- Dave Seghezzo (oboe)
- Xavier Duss (oboe)
- Judith Wenziker (oboe)
- Christian Raabe (bassoon)
- Reiner Erb (bassoon)
- Xenia Schindler (harp)
- Conrad Herwig (trombone)
- Roger Rosenberg (bass clarinet, baritone saxophone)
More musicians
- Benny Bailey (trumpet, flugelhorn)
- Carles Benavent (bass, electric bass)
- Grady Tate (drums)
Web links
- Ron Wynn: Review on allmusic.com (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Quincy Jones . In: Ian Carr , Digby Fairweather , Brian Priestley , Mirella Bauerle: Rough Guide Jazz . P. 366.
- ^ Leonard Feather : With love and gratude from deep, deep down , Miles & Quincy Live at Monteux CD Booklet, April 1993
- ↑ Miles Davis - Biography ( Memento of the original from May 10, 2012 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. allaboutjazz.com
- ↑ Mark Deming: Plot Synopsis. Allmovie.com, original text: "Live at Montreux is a record of this historic concert, which proved to be Davis' last great triumph on-stage"
- ↑ Hans Sterner: Musik.Kritiken / Jazz / Live at Montreux , 15 September 1993
