Miles Davis in Europe
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LP, CD |
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6th |
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60:45 |
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Miles Davis in Europe (later also Miles in Antibes ) is a jazz album by Miles Davis . It was recorded live at the Festival International de Jazz d'Antibes in Juan-les-Pins on July 27, 1963 and released on Columbia Records the following year, 1964 .
Prehistory of the album
After a transition phase with a band with Victor Feldman , George Coleman , Ron Carter and the drummer Frank Butler , with whom the trumpeter recorded several tracks in California ("I Fall in Love So Easily", "Baby Won't You Please Come Home" and " Basin Street Blues "), Davis set up a new quintet in New York with Ron Carter and George Coleman, to which the pianist Herbie Hancock and the only 17-year-old drummer Tony Williams should belong. Miles Davis was so enthusiastic about the new formation that on May 14, 1963 he recorded the tracks "Joshua", "Seven Steps to Heaven" and "So Near, So Far" at the so-called "East Coast Session". A month later Davis played with his new quintet in his hometown of St. Louis in the local Jazz Villa . In summer the band went on a European tour and played at the Antibes Jazz Festival from July 26th to 28th.
The album
With the album Miles Davis in Europe begins a series of live albums by the famous second Miles Davis quintet of the 1960s; apart from Live in Europe (the original title of the album), this should be Four and More and My Funny Valentine from the New York Philharmonic Hall as well as Miles in Berlin , Miles in Tokyo and, as a brilliant conclusion, Live at Plugged Nickel, Chicago 1965 . Although a similar program is played again and again on the individual albums, such as the tracks “ Autumn Leaves ”, “ Walkin ' ”, “ My Funny Valentine ”, “ So What ”, “ On Green Dolphin Street ” or “ If I Were a Bell” "Succeeded these three quintet formations (with the saxophonists George Coleman, Sam Rivers ( Miles in Tokyo ) and finally Wayne Shorter ) " in the course of the development of the old titles again and again new, breathtaking live variations in perfection that was hardly thought possible before, “ Says Peter Wießmann in his Davis biography. "Each of the five musicians enjoys the freedom to use the entire functional harmonic space of the respective topic and the chance to influence the musical flow in a directional manner."
Track list
- (A1) Introduction (by André Francis) 0:15
- (A2) Autumn Leaves ( Jacques Prévert / József Kozma ) 11:40
- (A3) Milestones (Miles Davis) 9:15
- (B1) Joshua ( Victor Feldman ) 9:30
- (B2) All of You ( Cole Porter ) 13:58
- (B3) Walkin '( Richard Carpenter ) 16:16
Discographic Notes
The live recordings from Antibes first appeared in 1963 under the title Miles Davis in Europe (Columbia CS 8933). In 1989, when the album was re-released on CD, it was given the more specific title Miles in Antibes (786340, CBS4629602).
All live and studio recordings of the Miles Davis Formations from 1963/64 were combined by Columbia in 2004 on the six-CD box Seven Steps - The Complete Columbia Recordings of Miles Davis 1963-1964 (C7K 90840).
literature
- Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD . 6th edition. Penguin, London 2002, ISBN 0-14-051521-6 .
- Miles Davis: The Autobiography . Heyne, Munich 2000
- Erik Nisenson: Round About Midnight - A Portrait by Miles Davis . Hannibal, Vienna 1985. ISBN 3-85445-021-4
- Peter Wießmüller: Miles Davis - his life, his music, his records . Oreos (Collection Jazz), Gauting 1985
Remarks
- ↑ Miles Davis Discography 1960-1969 (Peter Losin)
- ↑ Miles in Antibes (discography Kind of Blue)
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from September 3, 2014 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. The album on the homepage of the official "Miles Davis Community" from Sony / Legacy that now takes care of Miles Davis' Columbia recordings.
- ↑ The recordings went down in the annals as a “West Coast session”, according to Peter Wießmüller. The three titles mentioned in the text appeared on Seven Steps to Heaven , "Summer Night" on the album Quiet Nights (both 1963) and the West Coast version of "So Near, So Far" on the compilation Directions (1981)
- ↑ The tracks appeared later - coupled with the recordings from California with Victor Feldman - on the Columbia album Seven Steps to Heaven (CS 8851).
- ↑ There is a bootleg that was released as Miles Davis in St. Louis by VGM Records on LP.
- ↑ The ORTF broadcast recordings from the other days ; these were later partially published on the Bootleg Côte Blues . See Discography Miles Davis (jazzdisco.org) and Sessionography (Peter Losin)
- ↑ p. 136
