Miles Davis Juan-Le-Pins Sessions

[milestones20]

Anyone know anything about this record? I've heard lots of buzz about it, but it isn't out here in the States and I've never found an import version.

[Guy Berger]

Anyone know anything about this record? I've heard lots of buzz about it, but it isn't out here in the States and I've never found an import version.

Do you mean the 7-25-69 Juan Les Pins concert?

Guy

[Soulstation1]

http://darkfunk.com/latest_shows/latest_show/?id=101

[B. Clugston]

Miles played two dates. The first was released on CD by Sony in Japan. It also got the Jazz Door treatment (It's About That Time ), though predictably the wrong city (Montreux) is given.

There have been plans by Sony to issue both sets on CD, though when is anyone's guess. I've only heard the first. A good set by the quintet, but not as adventurous as the concerts they performed in Europe that fall. The way Miles is miked makes him sound like he's playing flugelhornn.

July 25, 1969: Directions/Miles Runs the Voodoo Down/Milestones/Footprints/Round Midnight/It's About That Time/Sanctuary/The Theme

July 26, 1969: Directions/Spanish Key/I Fall in Love Too Easily/Masqualero/Miles Runs the Voodoo Down/No Blues/Nefertiti/Sanctuary/The Theme

[Guy Berger]

There have been plans by Sony to issue both sets on CD, though when is anyone's guess. I've only heard the first. A good set by the quintet, but not as adventurous as the concerts they performed in Europe that fall. The way Miles is miked makes him sound like he's playing flugelhornn.

July 25, 1969: Directions/Miles Runs the Voodoo Down/Milestones/Footprints/Round Midnight/It's About That Time/Sanctuary/The Theme

July 26, 1969: Directions/Spanish Key/I Fall in Love Too Easily/Masqualero/Miles Runs the Voodoo Down/No Blues/Nefertiti/Sanctuary/The Theme

The second concert is as good as the first. While I agree that these concerts are more conservative than the fall concerts, they do have the upside of featuring different material.

Guy

[Dave Garrett]

The Sony Japan CD (SRCS 6843):

[milestones20]

Thanks all for the info!

[Parkertown]

http://darkfunk.com/latest_shows/latest_show/?id=101

That's the one on the Japanese cd whose cover is shown above.

Too bad they don't have the other show...

[Eric]

There have been plans by Sony to issue both sets on CD, though when is anyone's guess. I've only heard the first. A good set by the quintet, but not as adventurous as the concerts they performed in Europe that fall. The way Miles is miked makes him sound like he's playing flugelhornn.

July 25, 1969: Directions/Miles Runs the Voodoo Down/Milestones/Footprints/Round Midnight/It's About That Time/Sanctuary/The Theme

July 26, 1969: Directions/Spanish Key/I Fall in Love Too Easily/Masqualero/Miles Runs the Voodoo Down/No Blues/Nefertiti/Sanctuary/The Theme

The second concert is as good as the first. While I agree that these concerts are more conservative than the fall concerts, they do have the upside of featuring different material.

Guy

In this context, I don't think "more conservative" means to imply that this is not great stuff - it is! I made the mistake of letting it "sleep" in my collection for too long (under the incorrect assumption that it somehow sounded circa 1962 ... ).

[B. Clugston]

There have been plans by Sony to issue both sets on CD, though when is anyone's guess. I've only heard the first. A good set by the quintet, but not as adventurous as the concerts they performed in Europe that fall. The way Miles is miked makes him sound like he's playing flugelhornn.

July 25, 1969: Directions/Miles Runs the Voodoo Down/Milestones/Footprints/Round Midnight/It's About That Time/Sanctuary/The Theme

July 26, 1969: Directions/Spanish Key/I Fall in Love Too Easily/Masqualero/Miles Runs the Voodoo Down/No Blues/Nefertiti/Sanctuary/The Theme

The second concert is as good as the first. While I agree that these concerts are more conservative than the fall concerts, they do have the upside of featuring different material.

Guy

In this context, I don't think "more conservative" means to imply that this is not great stuff - it is! I made the mistake of letting it "sleep" in my collection for too long (under the incorrect assumption that it somehow sounded circa 1962 ... ).

You are correct in that "more conservative" doesn't mean that this is not great stuff. By the fall tour, Corea was further in to his "far out" phase and the band got a lot more intense, including some avant garde moments that were uncharacteristic of a Miles Davis group.

[Roundsound]

I was lucky to find a CD at a used store. I thought it was terrific. I still prefer him in an acoustic setting. In effect he's still straddling both electric and acoustic and this. I thought Miles played with a lot of intensity and the band was having a good time.

[dave9199]

This is one that has been listed on Jazzmatazz since last year. It still says 2005 next to it the last time I looked. I figure since Sony halted future boxes, this one has been cut also.

[B. Clugston]

This is one that has been listed on Jazzmatazz since last year. It still says 2005 next to it the last time I looked. I figure since Sony halted future boxes, this one has been cut also.

I'm sure the efforts in dealing with the Estate (prop. Vince Wilburn Jr.) have also helped to delay this one's release.

Sony has a lot of live recordings of this group in the can, yet other than the Japanese issue of the first Juan-Le-Pins concert and the Fillmore sets with Airto, nothing—which is a shame, since this band was always challenging and constantly evolving.

[Late]

I wonder if Sony(/BMG) has completely dropped plans to release some kind of box set of these recordings. I read (in a DownBeat circa 1999? 2000?) that Chick Corea always felt kind of bummed that these recordings weren't released at the time.

In some ways, I think this is the strongest quintet Miles had.

[Guy Berger]

In some ways, I think this is the strongest quintet Miles had.

That case could definitely be made. The Fillmore East recording from March 1970 that was released a while back is great, but despite Sony marketing as "the Lost Quintet" is not the same thing.

Guy

[captainwrong]

This is may be my favorite Miles disc. So much so that when my first copy I was luck enough to find at a used shop vanished (I'm pretty sure I lent it to someone who won't own up to having it) I bought it again when I was in Tokyo on my honeymoon. I don't know exactly why I like this so much. There's just a fire in Miles horn that I haven't heard too many other places. And the music is kind of on the cusp of full on electric and 2nd quartet. Just an all round winner and add me to the list waiting for the rest of this to come out.

[danasgoodstuff]

I love the part in Milestones where hard bop orthadoxy just disolves into an echoing rhodes wash...to me it's everything happening then in one little gesture.

Edited May 11, 2008 by danasgoodstuff