VSOP (tape)
| VSOP | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Genre (s) | jazz |
| founding | 1976 |
| Founding members | |
| Herbie Hancock | |
| Wayne Shorter | |
| Freddie Hubbard | |
| Ron Carter | |
| Tony Williams | |
| Substitute musician | |
Trumpet |
Wallace Roney (1992) |
VSOP is the name of a band that consisted of members of the Miles Davis Second Quintet and trumpeter Freddie Hubbard .
The name VSOP was initially allegedly for " V ery S pecial O ne Time Only P erformance"; according to Cook and Morton, the original VSOP quintet would be a kind of "fun event" to "revive" the legendary Miles Davis quintet.
The first performance took place on June 29, 1976 in New York as part of the Newport Jazz Festival . Davis refused Hancock's request if he didn't want to play. Unlike Davis, who continued to play exclusively electric jazz, VSOP played acoustic jazz, again approaching the ideal of hard bop .
Even at later festival appearances “it was always hoped that Miles Davis would join; predictably he never did, and someone else, mostly Freddie Hubbard , took over that role. "
First recordings with the band appeared, together with fusion material from Hancock's other band projects, on whose album VSOP recordings from a tour of the quintet in the summer of 1977 formed the material for the album VSOP: The Quintet , which was also released by Columbia Records . Later there were recordings of performances in Japan ( Live Under the Sky , 1979) and A Tribute to Miles, partly recorded in the studio in 1992, with Roney instead of Hubbard on trumpet.
literature
- Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD, LP and Cassette . 2nd Edition. Penguin, London 1994, ISBN 0-14-017949-6 .
Remarks
- ^ Cook & Morton, The Penguin Guide to Jazz, 2nd Edition; in the original: wheeze .
- ↑ "It would have been perverse enough to bring Miles Davis over for this event anyway. There was always this last, unrealizable fantasy in the room that one day he would give up all the electrical stuff, the fashionable funk and rap, and meet his old friends for a purely acoustic gig. That never happened. ”- So Cook & Morton
- ↑ Review at AllMusic
- ^ Review at AllAboutJazz