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Miles in France – Miles Davis Quintet 1963/64: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 8

Arrives November 8th via Columbia/Legacy Recordings

Available as a 6CD / 8LP set featuring over four hours of previously-unreleased music and new liner notes by Marcus J.Moore

 2LP break-out set features all recordings from Paris 1964 with The Second Great Quintet

Preview Miles In France today with a never-heard version of “So What” Live at the Festival Mondial Du Jazz, Antibes/Juan-Les-Pins: LISTEN HERE

The acclaimed Miles Davis “Bootleg Series” has spanned years as early as 1955, and as late as 1985, but it has not yet touched 1963 or 1964 – a pivotal period in Miles’ musical evolution and the auspicious beginnings of the Second Great Quintet – until now. Today, Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, announce the newest box set in the Miles Bootleg Series out November 8th — Miles in France – Miles Davis Quintet 1963/64: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 8 which includes all the music made at the 1963 Festival Mondial Du Jazz in Antibes (July 26-28 of that year) and the 1964 Paris Jazz Festival (October 1). The 1963 recordings feature George Coleman, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter and Tony Williams – while the 1964 recordings feature Wayne Shorter’s arrival on tenor saxophone as the final member of the Second Great Quintet.

Miles In France will arrive November 8th as a 6 CD and 8 LP set with more than four hours of previously unreleased music and new liner notes by journalist Marcus J. Moore. A 2LP break-out set, of just the 1964 recordings, pressed on French flag-inspired blue-white-red vinyl will also be available. The release will also be available digitally in its entirety on DSPs. Pre-orders begin today - https://milesdavis.lnk.to/France

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Miles in France – Miles Davis Quintet 1963/64: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 8 was produced by the multi-GRAMMY winning team of Steve Berkowitz, Richard Seidel and Michael Cuscuna (marking one of the last productions for Cuscuna, who passed away earlier this year) and mastered by multi-GRAMMY winning Sony Music engineer Vic Anesini at Battery Studios in NYC.

Preview the set today with a never-released, nearly ten-minute version of “So What” Live at the Festival Mondial Du Jazz, Antibes/Juan-Les-Pins on July 26th, 1963: HERE

France was important to Miles on both a professional and personal level, quickly becoming his preferred live market. He played in France more times than any other country outside the U.S. and recorded there frequently. His history in the country goes back as far as 1949 – when he appeared at the Festival International De Jazz at just 22 years old – and as late as July 1991, for a concert in Nice just two months before he passed.

In the early 1960s, Miles came to France having altered the course of jazz. His 1959 landmark album Kind of Blue eschewed hard bop for a modal style that allowed room for a freer type of improvisation – an overcast slow-burner evoking ease and tension. But when compared with the studio version of Kind of Blue, the music coming out of the Quintet in Antibes and Paris had very little room for space and silence. The highs were dramatic and the lows were filled with powerful phrasing – adding fresh perspective to this landmark album in all of jazz.

Miles officially hired the rhythm section of Herbie Hancock on piano, Ron Carter on bass, and Tony Williams on drums in the Spring of 1963, and they went into the studio in May of that year with George Coleman on tenor saxophone to record the second half of the Seven Steps To Heaven album. Two months later they arrived in Europe, and Downbeat deemed their performances at the 1963 Festival Mondial Du Jazz to be: “superb… [Davis] was in clean, decisive form and at his lyrical best…”

Ron Carter recalls the experience in the new liner notes, adding, “I had never played with anyone like that, of course, and certainly not for this extended period of time. It was just stunning to hear him play like this, play with that intensity, play with that tempo, play with that direction night in and night out and not turn it on to the band and say, ‘Stop that.’ He allowed us to do whatever the chemist allowed his proteges in the lab to do. Take these chemicals I’m giving you guys and see what we come up with. Just call the fire department if necessary.”

Miles would return to the U.S. with a new sense of musical purpose, spurred on by the bands he took to France, reveling in the stages they played. By the time Miles recorded E.S.P. with the Second Great Quintet in 1965, he proved that – despite whatever physical and spiritual challenges he may have endured – he was the barometer by which jazz moved and evolved. Some 60 years removed from these recordings, and more than 30 since his passing, Miles is still the summit and pinnacle, the essence of audacity, the monument of all monuments.

MILES IN FRANCE – MILES DAVIS QUINTET: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 8

Festival Mondial Du Jazz, Antibes/Juan-Les-Pins, July 26, 1963

1. Introduction by André Francis (:46)

2. So What (9:46)

3. All Blues (11:59)

4. Stella By Starlight (14:13)

5. Seven Steps To Heaven (11:01)

6. Walkin’ (10:43)

7. My Funny Valentine (9:55)

8. Joshua (11:02)

9. The Theme (2:59)

10. Closing announcement by André Francis (0:37)

Festival Mondial Du Jazz, Antibes/Juan-Les-Pins July 27, 1963

1. Introduction by André Francis (:52)

2. Autumn Leaves (13:55)

3. Milestones (9:23)

4. I Thought About You (11:47)

5. Joshua (11:31)

6. All Of You (16:44)

7. Walkin’ (16:16)

8. Bye Bye Blackbird (16:49)

9. The Theme (6:06)

Festival Mondial Du Jazz, Antibes/Juan-Les-Pins July 28, 1963

1. Introduction by André Francis (1:21)

2. If I Were A Bell (12:46)

3. So What (12:41)

4. Stella By Starlight (15:47)

5. Walkin’ (18:19)

6. The Theme (:28)

Paris Jazz Festival, Salle Pleyel, October 1, 1964 (1st concert)

1. Autumn Leaves (12:49)

2. So What (9:39)

3. Stella By Starlight (11:05)

4. Walkin’ (9:07)

5. The Theme (0:38)

Paris Jazz Festival, Salle Pleyel, October 1, 1964 (2nd concert)

1. All Of You (16:05)

2. Joshua (12:35)

3. My Funny Valentine (12:18)

4. No Blues (13:13) 5. The Theme (1:05)

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24 minutes ago, jlhoots said:

What % of this is already "released".

All performances from July 26, 1963 are released in a bootleg called "Another In Europe" (So What).

July 27, 1963 is the official "Miles In Europe" (CBS).

From July 28, 1963, only 2 tunes ("If I Were A Bell" "So What") are released in "Another In Europe".  So the other 2 are newly unearthed.

Actually, the July 25 performance in Paris was also recorded, but the tape is missing in the ORTF archive.  I hoped they could locate it, but well...

Both sets from October 1, 1964 are released in a bootleg called "In Paris 1964" (So What).  But the sound quality is terrible (I guess it's from radio airchecks), so I hope they could improve it (hopefully with master tapes from ORTF).

So, well, maybe 90%?  BTW, the music is a top notch.

 

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1 hour ago, mhatta said:

All performances from July 26, 1963 are released in a bootleg called "Another In Europe" (So What).

July 27, 1963 is the official "Miles In Europe" (CBS).

From July 28, 1963, only 2 tunes ("If I Were A Bell" "So What") are released in "Another In Europe".  So the other 2 are newly unearthed.

Actually, the July 25 performance in Paris was also recorded, but the tape is missing in the ORTF archive.  I hoped they could locate it, but well...

Both sets from October 1, 1964 are released in a bootleg called "In Paris 1964" (So What).  But the sound quality is terrible (I guess it's from radio airchecks), so I hope they could improve it (hopefully with master tapes from ORTF).

So, well, maybe 90%?  BTW, the music is a top notch.

 

Yes.  The upgrade in sound will be the primary contribution of this release.  As you write, it should be particularly substantial for October 1, 1964.  

The other two tracks from July 28 may not have had a CD release but they have been circulating for some time.

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9 tracks from this release are on the 7 Steps Box:

2-5 to 3-5 : The Festival Mondial du Jazz Antibes, Juan-les-Pins, France, July 27, 1963

Otherwise no other official release as far as I can tell.  Revisiting 7Steps sequence and it is very good.  I think Mark Wilder masterings are adequate, but a bit bright and harsh.  Hoping Vic Anesini is better.

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In Europe is my favorite by this band. I do think that that particular lineup has a short shelf life though. It wasn't that George Coleman was the problem, just that those guys needed an ongoing challenge. Sam was too much for Miles, but Wayne was just right.

I'll pick this up eventually, but there's no rush. I'll save my preorder for the Jungle Band set. 🙂

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1 hour ago, JSngry said:

In Europe is my favorite by this band. I do think that that particular lineup has a short shelf life though. It wasn't that George Coleman was the problem, just that those guys needed an ongoing challenge. Sam was too much for Miles, but Wayne was just right.

I'll pick this up eventually, but there's no rush. I'll save my preorder for the Jungle Band set. 🙂

Yes, Miles Davis in Europe was about my second or third Miles Davis LP and I LOVED it and soon was much more interested in the 1960´s Miles than the 50´s Prestige record I had first. That sound of the cymbals by Tony Williams, I think I spun that fast "Walkin´" hundreds of times. 
Okay, with Sam Rivers......since I was a young modern boy then, Sam Rivers was on my top list of favourites, but then I still didn´t know about a record of Miles using Rivers, it would have been heaven on earth for me as a young guy......
 

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13 hours ago, jazzbo said:

No

That was a hard no... Because most of it has been previously released?

18 hours ago, jazzbo said:

I am excited--I will order the Japanese version when available (I have Japanese versions of the other 7).

What's the diff with the Japanese and US versions?

On 9/12/2024 at 8:40 AM, bluesForBartok said:

over four hours of previously-unreleased music

How could 90% of it be previously released, when they're saying it's 4 hours of newly released.

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In the past the Japanese versions have been either Blu-Spec CD and then Blu-Spec CD2 versions. I compared one of each to the US versions, thought they sounded better, bought the Japanese editions of each.

This one does not indicate that it is a Blu-Spec CD2 version, but the price is good and I've ordered it since it was added to cdjapan last night.*

That "hard No" was a response to David's question about the other material with Sam Rivers being reissued officially. It has not.

 

 

 

*In this case this appears to be the Non-Japanese edition with additional Japanese language booklet material added; Sony Japan does not appear to be producing their own version. Bummer.  

 

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29 minutes ago, tranemonk said:

 

How could 90% of it be previously released, when they're saying it's 4 hours of newly released.

4 hours of it are newly officially released. Other than "Miles in Europe" and the additional track on "Seven Steps" box set the remaining tracks have only been released on bootlegs previously. See this post: 

 

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