Miles & Quincy: Live At Montreux

RELEASE
July 08, 1991
LABEL
Warner Bros.
GENRES
Jazz, Jazz Instrument, Cool, Modern Creative, Progressive Jazz, Experimental Big Band, Trumpet Jazz

Album Review

Although Miles Davis did not live to participate in Gerry Mulligan's reunion recordings featuring the nonet that played on the famous late-'40s and early-'50s cool sessions, he participated in a reunion concert held at Montreux in 1991. This featured both the Gil Evans Orchestra and George Gruntz Concert Jazz Band, plus additional guests Benny Bailey, Grady Tate, Carlos Benavent and various European players teaming with a gravely ill Davis to perform Gil Evans' marvelous arrangements. Quincy Jones conducted and conceived the idea of using two orchestras, offering majestic surroundings for the solos of Davis, fellow trumpeter Wallace Roney and alto saxophonist Kenny Garrett. Not every moment is golden, but the overall session ranks just a bit below the majestic '50s and '60s dates featuring Davis' trumpet and Evans' arrangements.
Ron Wynn, Rovi

Track Listing

  1. Introduction
  2. Boplicity
  3. Introduction to Miles Ahead Medley
  4. Springsville
  5. Maids of Cadiz
  6. The Duke
  7. My Ship
  8. Miles Ahead
  9. Blues for Pablo
  10. Introduction to Porgy and Bess Medley
  11. Orgone
  12. Gone, Gone, Gone
  13. Summertime
  14. Here Come de Honey Man
  15. The Pan Piper
  16. Solea