Miles & Quincy Live at Montreux

Artist: Miles Davis , and Quincy Jones
Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Category: Music

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Format: Live
Media: Audio Cassette

UPC: 093624522140
EAN: 0093624522140
ASIN: B000002MIT

Release Date: 1993-08-10

Miles & Quincy Live at Montreux

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Tracks:

Introduction
Boplicity
Introduction to Miles Ahead Medley
Springsville
Maids of Cadiz
Duke
My Ship
Miles Ahead
Blues for Pablo
Introduction to Porgy and Bess Medley
Orgone
Gone, Gone, Gone
Summertime
Here Come de Honey Man
Pan Piper
Solea

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Customer Reviews:

I own the video.......2007-02-20

The feeling I get was Miles was sick. The orchestra I thought wasn't very good I was wincing all over the thing. I'm not into Quincy. But I enjoyed the Roney with Miles interaction I thought it cool of them smiling at one another and Miles putting his hand on his shoulder. Because in a way Roney was playing with Tony Herbie Ron and Wayne. So Roney was the taking his place as a younger Miles. I mean Roney is good Tony played with him. Im sure Miles knew all of this. It's just the thing with quincy he just wanted that one chance before Miles passed away which was three months later. It's just sad.

75 Copies Available, 95 Cents and Up..........2006-12-27

Let's face it, this boring concert was ill-fated from conception, simply because Miles wasn't into it. Nor was he into it during the performance. Can't anyone FEEL that? And to see unoriginal phoneys like Wallace Roney up there with MILES was as painful for me to witness as it was for an already ailing Miles to be a part of. THAT'S why Miles kept in the background. He was ashamed of this concert, and he was regretting his decision to go against his original instincts. You gotta be kidding: "generously" letting others have the spotlight!?--if that ain't a crock of a concocted cover up--ehhh, go listen to your Cindy Lauper Miles. Come on, he just wanted it to be done with; I could FEEL that! Yes, eventhough he is quoted as acknowledging his collaborations with Gil Evans as his best recordings (he DID say that), as all artists do, he had long ago moved on.

By the time they did this concert, it was really just too late, way past the ripe phase, which there never really was. When you consider the supposed 15 years it took Quincy to convince Miles to do this, it's interesting to ponder how this 1991 concert would have come off had Miles agreed to do it--playing the solo trumpet stuff alone, no amateur trumpeters on stage playing for him--back in 1976. Let's see, who would've been in the orchestra? And if this botched travisty had never taken place... Clearly it would have better served Miles' legacy to have us all forever wondering, "What if..."

Another thing Miles said, in the Roy Firestone interview, was something like, "When you imitate, you sound flat"--and he didn't mean that as pitch. That bum, Roney, who had the nerve to actually accept that gig and play next to MILES, must've further sickened Miles with his (macaRoney's) balls-less, luke warm, FLAT Miles-isms. Same with the concert: Miles KNEW, all those 15 years, any attempt to recreate what he had with Gil Evans could only result in a caricature, a mockery of the original, made all the more FLAT especially played by slouches like that Rice-a-Roney joker.

75 copies available from 95 cents and up? What does that tell you?

You rest in peace, Miles. I'm so sorry that Quincy, even with his genuinely deep respect for you and Gil, self-servingly coaxed you into enduring that ordeal...from which, I'm sure, businessman Quincy continues to collect royalty checks. And I deeply regret, as I know you did too, that you will forever be associated with that RoneyBaloney clown. You didn't deserve any of that, so near to the end of your career, one that redefined jazz in many ways.

We Want This Miles On DVD.......2006-11-07

Whoever owns the rights to this video should kindly release the performance on DVD. Miles Davis has been dead for 15 years now and it's time to honor his memory with a well edited DTS sound and video version of the music that made him famous. Quincy Jones did say in the introduction on stage that it took him 15 years to get Miles to finally play the Gill Evans arrangements again. Perhaps it was a good thing the show was delayed. A video shot in 1975 may not look quite as good as the later recording. And may I suggest they find an appealing photo for the DVD cover instead of that menacing photo of Miles Davis.

Just painful... the sound of Miles about to kick the bucket.......2006-08-13

The most respectful thing to have done with this recording, would have been for them to erase the tapes, out of respect for Miles Davis. These are arrangements that Miles struggled to play when he was in his prime. Whoever persuaded him to try to play them when he was old and in ill health could not possibly have had Miles' best interests at heart. Even the young fill-in trumpeter who covers most of Miles' parts is playing clams all over the place, probably because he is distracted, keeping an eye on Miles to make sure he doesn't die onstage. The song "Springsville", which calls for a nimble, fast-paced melody line on the trumpet, and was one of the crowning achievements on the original Miles Ahead album, is just a real mess here.

The orchestra does a fine job with the arrangements here, and the sax soloist shines on tunes like "Miles Ahead", but it is not enough to save such an ill-conceived project. I have to agree with the other writers, though, who say that Mr. Davis certainly was a brave man, and a real fighter, to play this show despite his frailties. He kept doing what he loved to do, right up until the end, which is admirable. I just don't this recording is how Miles Davis would want us to remember him.

Can you imagine an ailing 60 year old Elvis doing a nostalgia gig with a young Elvis impersonator standing beside him, singing all but the easiest notes in his place? Pretty absurd huh? This project is nearly as absurd, but the sad part is that it really happened.

So Much Said About One Concert.......2006-07-31

So much has be written about the concert, and I strongly feel it is based on Miles passing away several months later.

And it always seems to center on Miles never wanting to look back on his music. But his rapidly failing health swayed his decision to join Quincy Jones and the vast number of musicians on stage for the tribute show.

Quincy Jones arranged the show and it certainly was quesionable how much Miles was going to be physically able to play, if at all. It was a shock to most involved in the project that Miles was in declining health. That Miles found the power inside himself to play says more about the person than performer.

If anything, the sound was "overproduced" due to the number of musicians used by Jones. I will let others hash out why Miles participated. But the concert is a required piece in a collection that attempts to capture Miles at every facet of his career.

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