Miles in Europe '69

[Tenor Freak]

More live Miles from the late 60s....

http://www.jazzjournal.co.uk/magazine/503/miles-in-1969-for-sonys-latest-bootleg-set

I heard one track from the Antibes set on WNUR the other day (Round Midnight) and it was awesome...another essential set by the sound of it.

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Bruce, there's a fair bit of Miles' '69 Antibes set on Utube. Man in the very white shirt. Not too keen on Wayne's soprano tone...woke the ducks up.

BN.

BTW, The 57 stuff with Barney Wilen is rather fetching too..."Man, why do you have to play those awful notes?" Le Barney sounding a bit mid Trane influenced at times.

[burning dog]

Bruce, there's a fair bit of Miles' '69 Antibes set on Utube. Man in the very white shirt. Not too keen on Wayne's soprano tone...woke the ducks up.

BN.

BTW, The 57 stuff with Barney Wilen is rather fetching too..."Man, why do you have to play those awful notes?" Le Barney sounding a bit mid Trane influenced at times.

Thanks for reminding me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbJXYWBbbqc

Shorter sees to have two distinct tones on soprano at this time, on the laid back tracks on In a Silent Way I love his duck friendly tone, on the above it's the reedy version




Now THIS is a TONE

Some say pretending to be a duck is easy. In reality it's Faux Canard.

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

AND...at/from that same Antibes festival, there is an outstanding set by the Harold Land/Bobby Hutcherson quintet, with Stanley Cowell brilliant on piano. That was a hell of partnership.

BN.

[Alyn_Shipton]

More about the Miles 69 set on the BBC website, courtesy of yours truly. In an effort to escape the canards enchainés, there is an entire CD from Stockholm (fastkedjad anka) and a DVD from Berlin (angekettet Ente).

http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/gm6m

[Tenor Freak]

AND...at/from that same Antibes festival, there is an outstanding set by the Harold Land/Bobby Hutcherson quintet, with Stanley Cowell brilliant on piano. That was a hell of partnership.

BN.

Absolutely.

[burning dog]

Thanks for that Alyn. Miles was on top form as a player then. Excellent band.

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

I've got a tape of the 69 Rotterdam concert that R3 obtained from Dutch Radio and broadcast a few years back as part of the Miles tribute programs. I confess I find that edition of the band a bit clunky in sound and texture...the Hancock Carter/Williams telepathy and interplay was astonishing. But then I am an older person. with a Sony hifi recovering from a lightening spike. Fkg standby.

BN.

[Ian Thumwood]

Interested to read Alyn's comment about Volume 1 of this series being insiginificant to the importance of Volume 2. I suppose that this appertains to the lack of documentation on record by the band featured on the second CD but the classic second quintet hardly produced a massive body of recordings. The studio sessions stretched through five records (although I think there are a couple of tracks on an album like "Water babies" which I don't have) and I think is also featured on the Plugged Nickel set - another one missing from my collection. My friend Tony has this record and couldn't believe how much more adventurous the Vol 1 bootleg music was in comparison. From my point of view I can't believe just how great this 3 CD and 1 DVD set is either. The music on it reminds me so much of the jazz played by Wayne Shorter's current Quartet - the connections and similarities in how both bands interpret the music bridges the forty-odd years difference and in both cases demonstrate the kind of freedom within jazz that makes alot of the New Thing from the 1960's seem pretty limited in comparison. If you want to make a comparison with something contemporary, it's a bit like the new James Bond film "Skyfall" which seemed to up the ante for this franchise yet when you see something like "Goldfinger" again, you realise that alot of the ingredients which made the latter film so good were in the earlier film as well.

In my opinion, I was flabberghasted at how good the Vol 1 was. The music is often better than the studio versions and I don't think that there are many bands who played so much music per bar. I look forward to getting Volume 2 (and the new Wayne Shorter disc out new week too) but wanted to express my opinion that whilst a lot of archive live recordings have been put out of late which has been incredible (Monk & 'Trane, Coltrane's "One up, one down".) the bootleg volume 1 is probably even better -a fantastic recording of the greatest band in the history of jazz at the top of their game. Volume 1 is the aural equivalent of watching a football team with Pele, Cruyff, Banks, Moore and Eusabio in the line up.

[grippie]

In an effort to escape the canards enchainés

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

NP..."Oh Canarda!", Joni Mitchell. She walks like a dancing duck, she looks like a cool goose.

BN.

Just watched a very weird bit of new found film of Miles playing basket ball with John and Yoko. Where was Sting?

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

unborn

[burning dog]

Sting is Very Old

He was about 25 when the Police were formed (the Peelers that is)

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

It was Nat Adderly who stood in with the sextet for the week at Birdland after Miles was pistol whipped by the N.Y. cops. Miles never paid him...."What, you aint worth that!"

BN.