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Live Albums By Miles Davis

Miles Davis is recognised as having recorded many of the classic studio jazz albums including The Birth Of The Cool, Kind Of Blue, Sketches Of Spain, In A Silent Way and Bitches Bre but do his live albums match up to his reputation?

The live albums of Miles Davis include:

1948 Chasin’ The Bird
1948-1957 Live Recordings
1949 Complete Live In Paris
1951 Birdland
1955 1958 Miles & Coltrane
1956 Live In St Louis
1957-1963 Live In New York
1958 Jazz At The Plaza Vol 1
1958 At Newport
1960 All of You The Last Tour
1960 In Stockholm 1960 Complete
1961 At Carnegie Hall
1961 In Person Friday & Saturday Nights at the Blackhawk Complete
1961 Friday Night In Person at the Blackhawk in San Francisco Complete
1961 Saturday Night In Person at the Blackhawk in San Francisco Complete
1963 Miles Davis In Europe
1963 Live at the 1963 Monterey Jazz Festival
1964 My Funny Valentine
1965 The Complete Live At The Plugged Nickel
1967 Live In Europe 1967 The Bootleg Series Vol. 1
1969 Live in Europe 1969 The Bootleg Series Vol. 2
1969/1970 Bitches Brew Live
1970 Live-Evil
1970 Live At The Fillmore East
1970 Live at the Fillmore East March 7 1970 It’s About That Time
1970 Miles at the Fillmore 1970 The Bootleg Series Vol. 3
1970 Cellar Door Sessions
1974 Dark Magus Live at Carnegie Hall
1975 1975 Agharta
1975 Pangaea
1981 We Want Miles
1983 Live in Poland
1988 to 1991 Live Around the World

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Miles Davis Live In Poland 1983

Live In Poland 1983 is a live album by the Miles Davis Sextet.

It was recorded at Congress Hall in Warsaw, Poland on October 13, 1983 plus three bonus tracks from a concert in New York in July 1981.

Playing on the album on the Poland recordings are:

Miles Davis – trumpet,
Bill Evans – tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, flute,
John Scofield – guitar,
Robert Irving III – keyboards,
Darryl Jones – bass,
Al Foster – drums,
Mino Cinelu – percussion.

The New York 1981 recordings feature:

Miles Davis – trumpet,
Bill Evans – saxophones,
Mike Stern – guitar,
Marcus Miller – bass,
Al Foster – drums,
Mino Cinelu – percussion.

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Miles Davis Complete Live In Paris 1949

Complete Live In Paris 1949 is a live album by Miles Davis with the Tadd Dameron Quintet.

It was recorded at Salle Pleyel in Paris, France between May 8 and15 1949.

Playing on the album are:

Miles Davis – trumpet,
James Moody – tenor saxophone,
Tadd Dameron – piano,
Barney Spieler – bass,
Kenny Clarke – drums.

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Miles Davis Birdland 1951

Birdland 1951 is an early live album by Miles Davis.

It was recorded in the New York club over three concerts on:

Tracks 1-3: June 2, 1951
Tracks 4-7: February 17, 1951
Tracks 8-10: September 29, 1951

Playing on tracks 1 to 7 are:

Miles Davis – trumpet,
Sonny Rollins – tenor saxophone,
J.J. Johnson – trombone,
Kenny Drew – piano,
Tommy Potter – bass,
Art Blakey – drums.

Playing on tracks 8 to 10 are:

Miles Davis – trumpet,
Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis -tenor saxophone,
Big Nick Nicholas – tenor saxophone,
Billy Taylor – piano,
Charles Mingus – bass,
Art Blakey – drums.

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Miles Davis Jazz At The Plaza Vol 1 1958

Jazz At The Plaza Vol 1 is a live album by the Miles Davis Sextet.

It was recorded on September 9, 1958, at the Persian Room in the Plaza Hotel in New York City.

Playing on the album are:

Miles Davis – trumpet
John Coltrane – tenor saxophone
Cannonball Adderley – alto saxophone
Bill Evans – piano
Paul Chambers – bass
Jimmy Cobb – drums

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Miles Davis Saturday Night In Person at the Blackhawk in San Francisco Complete 1961

Saturday Night In Person at the Blackhawk in San Francisco Complete is a live album by Miles Davis.

It was recorded on April 22, 1961.

Friday and Saturday Night can be bought together and Friday Night is also available on its own.

Playing on the album are

Miles Davis – trumpet,
Hank Mobley – tenor saxophone,
Wynton Kelly – piano,
Paul Chambers – bass,
Jimmy Cobb – drums.

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Miles Davis Friday Night In Person at the Blackhawk in San Francisco Complete 1961

Friday Night In Person at the Blackhawk in San Francisco Complete is a live album by Miles Davis.

It was recorded at the Black Hawk nightclub on April 21, 1961 and is also available in a package which gives us Friday and Saturday Nights.

Playing on the album are:

Miles Davis – trumpet
Hank Mobley – tenor saxophone
Wynton Kelly – piano
Paul Chambers – bass
Jimmy Cobb – drums

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Miles Davis John Coltrane Miles & Coltrane 1955 1958

Miles & Coltrane is a live album by Miles Davis and John Coltrane.

It features two concerts:

Tracks 1 to 5: Newport, Rhode Island, 4 July 1958.
Tracks 6 and 7: New York, 27 October 1955.

The group for Newport in 1958 were:

Miles Davis – trumpet
John Coltrane – tenor saxophone
Cannonball Adderley – alto saxophone
Bill Evans – piano
Paul Chambers – bass
Jimmy Cobb – drums

Playing on the 1955 songs are:

Miles Davis – trumpet
John Coltrane – tenor saxophone
Red Garland – piano
Paul Chambers – bass
Philly Joe Jones – drums

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Miles Davis At Newport 1958

At Newport 1958 is a live album by Miles Davis.

It was recorded at the Newport Jazz Festival in Newport Rhode Island on July 3, 1958.

Playing on the album are:

Miles Davis – trumpet
John Coltrane – tenor saxophone
Cannonball Adderley – alto saxophone
Bill Evans – piano
Paul Chambers – bass
Jimmy Cobb – drums

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Miles Davis Live In St Louis 1956

Live In St Louis 1956 is a live album by the Miles Davis Quintet with John Coltrane.

This album has been compiled from two radio broadcasts made in Miles Davis’ hometown of Saint Louis, Missouri.

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Miles Davis Pangaea 1975

Pangaea is a live album by Miles Davis.

It was recorded in Osaka in Japan on 1 February 1975 and was the second set on the same day as Ahgartha was recorded.

Playing on the album are:

Miles Davis – trumpet, organ
Sonny Fortune – soprano sax, alto sax, flute
Reggie Lucas – guitar
Pete Cosey – guitar, synthesiser, percussion
Michael Henderson – bass
Al Foster – drums
Mtume – percussion

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