Miles Davis Quintet - 1964 - Berliner Jazztage '64, Philharmonic Hall, Berlin - DVD.

Описание: Recorded on 25 September 1964 live in concert at "Berliner Jazztage '64", Philharmonic Hall (Berliner Philharmonie), Berlin, Germany.

Miles in Berlin in fact is its birth announcement—tenor saxophonist Wayne Shorter had joined just a few gigs before, and was just getting familiar with new bandmates, taking the temperature.

Their second concert took place on September 25, 1964 in Berlin’s Philharmonie Hall, just west of the Berlin Wall. One can hear in the music from how hard the musicians are listening to one other, testing out ideas and starting to take chances. Take “Autumn Leaves”: Miles’ playing of the theme is teasingly abstract and filled with melodic asides—Hancock playfully runs alongside one—and then brief; his subsequent solo goes on-mic, off-mic at will, finding and all but disappears then returns with a roar. Shorter’s turn follows and its as if Miles’ solo was to show him how free he could be with the music. His solo is bouncy and jaunty, his more slivery tone a marked change from George Coleman’s and Sam Rivers’. At the end he locks into a groove with Hancock that makes it seem they’ve played together for years.

The Miles Davis Quintet .

Miles Davis, Trumpet
Wayne Shorter, Tenor Saxophone
Herbie Hancock, Piano
Ron Carter, Bass
Tony Williams, Drums