Jazz Live in Europe: Tribute to Miles Davis (Juan-les-Pins France July 2011)

Remembering the 20th Death's Anniversary of Miles Davis three famous "davisians": Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock and Marcus Miller put them together with Sean Jones (trumpet) and Sean Rickman (drums) for an exciting commemoration of the music of Miles during the 51st Festival Jazz a Juan in Côte d'Azur (France) last july.

This interesting concerts are now available on web in 2 CD (bootleg) of very good quality.

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Track Listing

CD 1

1. Applause [0:18]

2. Walkin’/ Little One/All Blues /Directions /Shh /Peaceful[30:52]

3. Short FM Announcer Break [0:25]

4. In a Silent Way [2:37]

5. In a Silent Way, cont./ Water Babies/ Someday My Prince Will Come /Footprints [28:12]

6. Band Introduction by Marcus [2:48]

CD 2

1. Fran Dance / Jean Pierre ?(a bit like Jean Pierre, but…different) [15:23]

2. Orbits/ Dr. Jekyl [8:52]

3. FM Announcer [0:23]

4. Time After Time / Sketches of Spain /It’s About That Time [6:28]

5. Tutu [15:11]

6. FM Outro [0:26]

Personnel

Marcus Miller (director, bass clarinet, bass);

Wayne Shorter (saxophone);

Sean Jones (trumpet);

Herbie Hancock (piano, keyboard);

Sean Rickman (drums)

Jazz Live in Europe: Miles Davis "Lost quintet" (1969)

The performances of Miles Davis with the so called Lost quintet [M. D. (tr), Wayne Shorter (ss, ts) Chick Corea (el-p), Dave Holland (bs, el-bs) Jack DeJohnette (drm)] are some of the most interesting of his career. The quintet was so named because they never recorded as five-men lineup in the studio, and only on 2001 with It's About That Time [Live at the Fillmore East mar. 7, 1970]

it was possible to listen to them on an official release.
The blogger Heat Warps posted 3 album botlegs with some performances of the quintet in France (Juan-les-Pins july 1969, Paris Salle Pleyel, nov. 1969 2 sets) that is possible to download here.
In the following videos we can see the quintet in Rome (Italy) at Teatro Sistina oct. 27, 1969

and in Copenhagen (Denmark) at Tivoli Konsertsal nov. 4, 1969.

Miles Davis at Warsaw Jazz Jamboree 1983

Following with the Warsaw Jamboree Jazz Festival

during the Cold War, the most important event in those years for polish jazz lovers was the exhibition of Miles Davis Group, at Sala Kongresowa the 15th of April 1983 with:

John Scofield: guitar
Bill Evans: sax
Darryl Jones: bass
Al Foster: drums
Mino Cinelu: percussion
Robert Irving III: synthesizer

Here you can see the beginning of the concert.

This exhibition was also a very exciting experience for Miles who spoke of it in his Autobiography:

«I remember one date in particular in Warsaw, Poland. We didn't even have to go through customs; they just waved us on through. Everybody was wearing "We Want Miles" buttons. The leader of the Soviet Union, Yuri Andropov, sent his personal limousine (or one just like it) to take me everywhere I wanted to go while I was in Warsaw. They told me that he loved my music and thought that I was one of the greatest musi­cians of all time. They also told me that he had wanted to come to my concert, but that he was too sick. He sent his personal regards, wishing that I have a great concert and saying that he was sorry that he couldn't be there. They put me up at the very best hotel in War­saw and treated me like a king.
When I got through playing my concert, people stood and cheered, and chanted that they hoped that I live a hundred years. Man, that was something! » (Miles Davis with Quincy Troupe, The Autobiography, Simon & Schuster, 1990, p. 357)

If you want to see the whole concert you can download free the DVD at this link