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Miles Davis Bootleg Series Kicks Off in September

07/25/2011
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Legacy has set a September 20th release date for Miles Davis Quintet - Live In Europe 1967: The Bootleg Series Vol. 1 will be the launch of new Miles Davis Series offering rare and previously unreleased live recordings from around the world.

The explosive transformation of Miles Davis' "second great Quintet" with Wayne Shorter (tenor sax), Herbie Hancock (piano), Ron Carter (bass), and Tony Williams (drums) is laid bare on Miles Davis Quintet - Live In Europe 1967: The Bootleg Series Vol. 1.

Culled from original state-owned television and radio sources in Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, and Sweden, the program spans five northern European festival performances over the course of nine days in October-November 1967.

The audio shows consist entirely of previously unreleased or previously only bootlegged material. The 3-CD + DVD package, an 8-panel digipak with 28-page booklet, will be available everywhere starting September 20th

On the same date, a single-disc overview of the box set will be released. Miles Davis Quintet – Live In Europe 1967: Best Of The Bootleg Vol. 1 will feature nine tracks from the box set.

Miles' Quintet lineup of 1965 to '68 is acknowledged as one of the high reference points in 20th century jazz, and its influence continues to reverberate in small group jazz today. Their Columbia recordings represent a litany of jazz at its best – E.S.P. (1965), Miles Smiles (1966), Sorcerer (1967), Nefertiti (1967), Miles In the Sky (1968), and Filles De Kilimanjaro (1968). But it was the quintet's live performances, as they evolved into Miles' ideal of a "leaderless" jamming ensemble, that truly immortalized them.

The European tour dates brought the Quintet to Antwerp, Belgium (October 28th); Stockholm, Sweden (October 31st); Copenhagen, Denmark (November 2nd); Paris, France (November 6th); and Karlsruhe, Germany (November 7th). The tour was organized and promoted by Newport Jazz Festival impresario George Wein and also starred Sarah Vaughan, the Archie Shepp Quintet (with Roswell Rudd, Grachan Moncur III, Jimmy Garrison, and Beaver Harris), the Thelonious Monk Quartet (with Charlie Rouse), the Gary Burton Quartet (with Larry Coryell, Steve Swallow, and Bobby Moses), and Wein's own Newport All-Stars with Buddy Tate.

The paradox of Miles Davis Quintet – Live In Europe 1967: The Bootleg Series Vol. 1 is the fact that all five concerts were recorded by state-owned radio and television outlets – a case of European bureaucracies preserving our American jazz heritage. Of the audio performances on CD, Belgium (an hour-plus set), Denmark and France are all full-length concert sets that are now seeing their first authorized release(s). Denmark is the rarest of the three, never released commercially (not even as a bootleg) so it is a particularly valuable 50 minutes of music.

The Paris concert is the longest of the shows in this collection, running 90 minutes across CD Two and CD Three. It includes the very rare versions of "Agitation" and "Footprints" which are not found on the unauthorized bootlegs that have circulated up until now.

The DVD contained in Miles Davis Quintet – Live In Europe 1967: The Bootleg Series Vol. 1 presents two concert sets by the Quintet, one from Stockholm on October 31st, and one from Karlsruhe, Germany on November 7th (although they are sequenced in reverse chronological order). This is the only known video documentation of the "second great Quintet" from the 1965 to '68 period. The only previous authorized release of this video was as a bonus disc on the commemorative 70-CD + DVD Complete Miles Davis Columbia Album Collection, released in 2009 on Columbia/Legacy.

The enthusiastic reception for the Miles Davis Quintet is partly credited to George Wein's belief that Europe could support a wide-ranging program of jazz festivals. Since the inception of Newport in 1954, Wein worked towards that goal in Europe, which took the better part of a decade to organize. These October-November 1967 festival dates were only the second or third season of Wein's European programs.

(Sidebar: This was also the tour in which director Charlotte Zwerin shot the black-and-white footage of Monk that is seen in the documentary film completed 20 years later, Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser. The Monk composition "'Round Midnight" – heard on all four discs of Miles Davis Quintet – Live In Europe 1967: The Bootleg Series Vol. 1 – was a Miles Davis performance staple since the early 1950s.)

Putting Miles Davis Quintet – Live In Europe 1967: The Bootleg Series Vol. 1 into historical perspective are the illuminating liner notes by Ashley Kahn, author of Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece (DaCapo Press, 2000). In addition to serving as a contributor to National Public Radio and teaching music history and journalism at New York University, Kahn is also the author of A Love Supreme: The Making of John Coltrane's Masterpiece (Viking, 2002), and The House That Trane Built: The Story of Impulse Records (Norton, 2007).

MILES DAVIS QUINTET - LIVE IN EUROPE 1967: THE BOOTLEG SERIES VOL. 1 (Columbia/Legacy 8869794053 2)

CD One – Selections: 1. Agitation • 2. Footprints • 3. 'Round Midnight • 4. No Blues • 5. Riot • 6. On Green Dolphin Street • 7. Masqualero • 8. Gingerbread Boy • 9. Theme. (Recorded on October 28, 1967 at the Konigin Elizabethzaal, Antwerp, Belgium by Belgian Radio and Television [BRT].)

CD Two – Selections: 1. Agitation • 2. Footprints • 3. 'Round Midnight • 4. No Blues • 5. Masqualero • 6. Agitation • 7. Footprints. (Tracks 1-5 recorded on November 2, 1967 at the Tivoli Konsertsal, Copenhagen, Denmark by Danish Radio; tracks 6 & 7 recorded and broadcast on November 6, 1967 at the Paris Jazz Festival, Salle Pleyel, Paris, France on France Inter [ORTF]. Radio Program Producer: Andre Francis.)

CD Three – Selections: 1. 'Round Midnight • 2. No Blues • 3. Masqualero • 4. I Fall In Love Too Easily • 5. Riot • 6. Walkin' • 7. On Green Dolphin Street • 8. The Theme. (Recorded and broadcast on November 6, 1967 at the Paris Jazz Festival, Salle Pleyel, Paris, France on France Inter [ORTF]. Radio Program Producer: Andre Francis.)

DVD – Selections: 1. Agitation • 2. Footprints • 3. I Fall In Love Too Easily • 4. Gingerbread Boy • 5. The Theme • 6. Agitation • 7. Footprints • 8. 'Round Midnight • 9. Gingerbread Boy • 10. The Theme. (Tracks 1-6 recorded on November 7, 1967 at the Stadthalle, Karlsruhe, Germany by Sudwestfunk TV; tracks 7-11 recorded on October 31, 1967 at the Konserthuset, Stockholm, Sweden by Sveriges Radio TV.)

MILES DAVIS QUINTET – LIVE IN EUROPE 1967: BEST OF THE BOOTLEG SERIES VOL. 1 (CK 88697 94870 2)

Selections: 1. Agitation [A] • 2. On Green Dolphin Street [A] • 3. 'Round Midnight [B] • 4. No Blues [B] • 5. Masqualero [C] • 6. Gingerbread Boy [A] • 7. The Theme [C]

[A]: October 28, 1967 at the Konigin Elizabethzaal, Antwerp, Belgium

[B]: November 2, 1967 at the Tivoli Konsertsal, Copenhagen, Denmark

[C]: November 6, 1967 at the Paris Jazz Festival, Salle Pleyel, Paris, France

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