From his performances in 1949 to his Legion of Honor, a few months before his death in 1991, Miles Davis maintained a special relationship with France, the country where he performed the most, to the point of offering us some -one of his finest musical performances. The proof with the eighth volume of the collection The Bootleg SeriesMiles in France 1963 & 1964 and its four hours of incandescent live performance. If the three concerts recorded during the Antibes world jazz festival in July 1963 (including two previously unreleased) saw the Miles Davis Quintet ignite the Côte d’Azur (with a So What anthology), the two shows (unpublished), captured on October 1, 1964 at the Salle Pleyel during the Paris Jazz Festival, mark the European birth of Miles Davis’ second Great Quintet: Herbie Hancock on piano, Ron Carter on double bass, Tony Williams on drums, Wayne Shorter who has just arrived on saxophone… Beyond the magic on stage, a slice of history.
Miles Davis Quintet, Miles in France 1963 & 1964 : The Bootleg Series Vol. 8 (Columbia /Legacy /Sony Music)
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