Miles Davis

For the First Time Ever on DVD!!

Davis’ influences included late 1960s acid rock and funk artists such as James Brown and Jimi Hendrix, many of whom he met through his wife Betty — a fiery young model and songwriter Miles married in 1968 and divorced a year later.
The musical transition required that Davis and his band adapt to electric instruments in both live performances and the studio. By the time In a Silent Way had been recorded in February 1969, Davis had augmented his standard quintet with additional players.
Hancock and Joe Zawinul were brought in to assist Chick Corea on electric keyboards, and guitarist John McLaughlin made the first of his many appearances. By this point, Shorter was also doubling on soprano saxophone. After recording this album, drummer Tony Williams left the band to form his group Lifetime and was replaced by Jack DeJohnette. Six months later, an even larger group of musicians, including Jack DeJohnette, Airto Moreira and Bennie Maupin recorded the double LP Bitches Brew, which became a huge success, hitting gold record status (half a million copies) by 1976. This album and In a Silent Way were among the first commercially successful fusions of jazz and rock.
The groundwork for the style had been laid by Charles Lloyd, Larry Coryell, and many others who pioneered a genre that would become known simply as "Jazz-rock fusion".
During this period, Davis toured Europe with the quintet of Shorter, Corea, Holland and DeJohnette. The group’s repertoire included material from Bitches Brew, In a Silent Way, the 1960s quintet albums, and an occasional standard. This DVD comprises two of those memorable concerts, one in Copenhagen and the other in Rome.

WAYNE SHORTER, tenor & soprano sax
CHICK COREA, electric piano & keyboards
DAVE HOLLAND, bass
JACK DeJOHNETTE, drums

Tivoli Koncertsal, Copenhagen, Denmark, November 4, 1969.

01 BITCHES BREW 14:44
(Miles Davis)
02 AGITATION 11:14
(Miles Davis)
03 I FALL IN LOVE TOO EASILY 3:44
(Sammy Cahn-Jule Styne)
04 SANCTUARY 3:31
(Miles Davis)
05 IT’S ABOUT THAT TIME into THE THEME 19:14
(Miles Davis)

Teatro Sistine, Rome, Italy, October 27, 1969.

06 BITCHES BREW 6:54
(Miles Davis)
07 MILES RUNS THE VOODOO DOWN 7:35
(Miles Davis)
08 I FALL IN LOVE TOO EASILY 2:56
(Sammy Cahn-Jule Styne)
09 SANCTUARY into THE THEME 4:12
(Miles Davis)
10 DIRECTIONS 5:10
(Joe Zawinul)
11 MASQUALERO 0:24
(Wayne Shorter)

TOTAL TIME: 1h. 21 min. APPROX. / B&W & COLOR/MONO
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Note: this footage comes from rare vintage TV broadcasts and image quality is not up to today’s standards. Every effort has been made to improve it employing moderntechnologies.