Miles & Quincy Live at Montreux
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Miles & Quincy: Live At Montreux
- Artist: Miles Davis/Quincy Jones
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- Release Date: July 08, 1991
- Total Time: 56:42
- Type: Live, Instrumental
- Genre: Jazz
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Although Miles Davis did not live to participate in Gerry Mulligan's reunion recordings featuring the nonet that played on the famous late-'40s and early-'50s cool sessions, he participated in a reunion concert held at Montreux in 1991. This featured both the Gil Evans Orchestra and George Gruntz Concert Jazz Band, plus additional guests Benny Bailey, Grady Tate, Carlos Benavent and various European players teaming with a gravely ill Davis to perform Gil Evans' marvelous arrangements. Quincy Jones conducted and conceived the idea of using two orchestras, offering majestic surroundings for the solos of Davis, fellow trumpeter Wallace Roney and alto saxophonist Kenny Garrett. Not every moment is golden, but the overall session ranks just a bit below the majestic '50s and '60s dates featuring Davis' trumpet and Evans' arrangements. ~ Ron Wynn, Rovi| Miles & Monk at Newport (1964 Album by Miles Davis) | |
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Miles & Quincy Live at Montreux
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| Released | August 10, 1993 | ||||
| Recorded | July 8, 1991 | ||||
| Genre | Cool jazz, big band | ||||
| Length | 56:45 | ||||
| Label | Warner Bros. | ||||
| Producer | Quincy Jones | ||||
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Miles & Quincy Live at Montreux is a Miles Davis collaboration with Quincy Jones for the 1991 Montreux Jazz Festival. For the first time in three decades, Davis returned to the songs arranged by Gil Evans on such classic 1950s albums as Miles Ahead, Porgy and Bess and Sketches of Spain. This album was also the last album recorded by Davis (though recordings from nine days later, despite being recorded at Lyon, would be included on the "The Complete Miles Davis at Montreux" box set). It left a lot of people who had been disappointed with his newer, more experimental works happy that he had ended his career on such a high note.[2][3][4]
Track listing
- Introduction by Claude Nobs & Quincy Jones
- "Boplicity"
- Introduction to Miles Ahead Medley
- "Springsville"
- "Maids Of Cadiz"
- "The Duke"
- "My Ship"
- "Miles Ahead"
- "Blues For Pablo"
- Introduction to Porgy And Bess Medley
- "Orgone"
- "Gone, Gone, Gone"
- "Summertime"
- "Here Come De Honey Man"
- "The Pan Piper"
- "Solea"
Personnel
Performed by The Gil Evans Orchestra and The George Gruntz Concert Jazz Band.
Miles Davis - trumpet
Kenny Garrett - alto saxophone
Wallace Roney - trumpet, fluegelhorn
Quincy Jones - conductor, producer
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