Miles Davis/Quincy Jones - Miles & Quincy: Live At Montreux [Digipak]

Artist:

Davis, Miles

UPC:

081227320928

See Also:

Silver, Horace Blakey, Art Various Artists - Endless Miles: A Tribute To Miles Davis John Coltrane/Miles Davis - The Best of Miles Davis & John Coltrane: 1955-1961 Gil Evans/Miles Davis - The Miles Davis and Gil Evans: Complete Columbia Studio Recordings [2004 Reissue] [Long Box]

Description:

Personnel: Miles Davis (trumpet); Quincy Jones (conductor); Kenny Garrett (alto saxophone); Wallace Roney, Benny Bailey (trumpet, flugelhorn); Carles Benavent (bass); Grady Tate (drums).
The Gil Evans Orchestra: Alex Foster (soprano & alto saxophones, flute); George Adams (tenor saxophone, flute); Lew Soloff, Miles Evans (trumpet); Tom Malone (trombone); Gil Goldstein, Delmar Brown (keyboards); Kennwood Dennard (drums, percussion).
The George Gruntz Concert Jazz Band includes: George Gruntz (piano); Sal Giorgianni (alto saxophone); Larry Schneider (tenor saxophone, flute, clarinet, oboe); Bob Malach (tenor saxophone, flute, clarinet); Jerry Bergonzi (tenor saxophone); Howard Johnson (baritone saxophone, tuba); Marvin Stamm, John D`earth, Jack Walrath (trumpet, fluegelhorn); Dave Bargeron, Earl McIntyre (trombone, euphonium); Dave Taylor (bass trombone); John Clark, Tom Varner (French horn); Mike Richmond (bass); John Riley (drums, percussion).
Engineers: Dave Richards, Justin Shirley-Smith.
Recorded live at the 25th anniversary of The Montreux Jazz Festival, Montreux, Switzerland on July 8, 1991. Includes liner notes by Leonard Feather.
MILES AND QUINCY LIVE AT MONTREUX won the 1994 Grammy Award for "Large Jazz Ensemble."
Personnel: Miles Davis (trumpet); Kenny Garrett (alto saxophone).
Additional personnel: Xenia Schindler (harp); Hanspeter Frehner, Julian Cawdry (flute, alto flute, piccolo); Anne O`Brien (flute); Michel Weber (clarinet); Christian Gavillet, Roger Rosenberg (bass clarinet, baritone saxophone); Dave Seghezzo, Tilman Zahn, Judith Wenziker, Xavier Duss (oboe); Christian Rabe, Reiner Erb (bassoon); Ack Van Royen, Benny Bailey, Manfred Schoof (trumpet, flugelhorn); Claudio Pontiggia, Alex Brofsky (French horn); Conrad Herwig, Roland Dahinden (trombone); Grady Tate (drums).
Audio Mixer: Mick Guzauski.
Audio Remasterer: Giovanni Scatola.
Liner Note Author: Stuart Nicholson.
Recording information: 25th Anniversary of the Montreux Jazz Festival (07/08/1991).
Photographers: Philippe Dutoit; Annie Liebowitz.
MILES DAVIS & QUINCY JONES LIVE AT MONTREUX finds the legendary trumpeter come full circle, returning at the end of his career to those musical highlights which set his sound and style in stone for generations of listeners. Drawing upon his collaborations with the innovative arranger Gil Evans, LIVE AT MONTREUX reprises some of Miles greatest moments from THE BIRTH OF THE COOL, MILES AHEAD, PORGY AND BESS and SKETCHES OF SPAIN.
The fact that Miles Davis, for some 40 years, steadfastly refused to offer his fans a backwards glance in the face of new and more interesting musical challenges, only adds to the poignancy of this July 8, 1991 event. It`s as if he knew that, in a spiritual sense, he had to face this music one last time.
Clearly when he hit the stage at Montreux, Miles Davis wasn`t the instrumentalist he once was, but his musicianship had grown more profound with every passing year. Yet once Miles gets his sea legs under him, he imbues each passage with his classic logic, intuition and sense of romance. On the more taxing passages, his stunt doubles--alto saxophonist Kenny Garrett and trumpeter Wallace Roney--play with great passion and poetic restraint. Jones and Gil Goldstein`s adaptation of the Evans charts are brassier and more sprawling than the originals. Still, it`s Evans originals such as "Orgone," "Blues For Pablo" and "Solea" that elicit the most powerful performances. And at the end, when confronted with the incantory, guitar-like grandeur of "Solea," Miles rises one last time to the challenge of these ancient themes, going out like a champion...with his boots on.

Track Listing:

DISC 1

1. Introduction
2. Boplicity
3. Introduction To Miles Ahead Medley
4. Springsville
5. Maids of Cadiz
6. Duke, The
7. My Ship
8. Miles Ahead
9. Blues For Pablo
10. Introduction To Porgy and Bess Medley
11. Orgone
12. Gone, Gone, Gone
13. Summertime
14. Here Comes De Honey Man
15. Pan Piper, The
16. Solea

Album Information

Release Date:

01/13/2008

Type:

Performer

Genre:

Jazz Instrument

Subgenre:

Trumpet

Label:

Warner Bros.

Producer:

Quincy Jones

Catalog Number:

73209

Original Release Year:

1991

# of Discs:

1

Studio/Live:

Live

Mono/Stereo:

Stereo

Runtime:

56 : 32

Guest Artist:

Kenny Garrett; Wallace Roney; Lew Soloff; Gil Goldstein; Bob Malach; Howard Johnson; Marvin Stamm; Larry Schneider

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