The Electric Miles Concerts: 1969

The full concert's list

March 11-17, 1969 Duffy's Backstage, Rochester

May-June 1969 Village Gate Club, New York

June 4-14, 1969 Plugged Nickel Club, Chicago

June 21-29, 1969 Blue Coronet Club, New York

June 21-29, 1969 Blue Coronet Club, New York

July 4, 1969 Festival Field, Newport

July 7, 1969 Central Park, New York

July 25, 1969 La Pinède, Juan-les-Pins

July 26, 1969 La Pinède, Juan-les-Pins

July 27, 1969 Rutgers University Stadium, New Brunswick

August 4, 1969 Davis's House, New York

October 26, 1969 Teatro Lirico, Milan

October 27, 1969 Teatro Sistina, Rome

October 31, 1969 Stadthalle, Vienna

November 1, 1969 Hammersmith Odeon, London

November 2, 1969 Ronnie Scott's Club, London

November 3, 1969 Salle Pleyel, Paris

November 4, 1969 Tivoli Konsertsal, Copenhagen

November 5, 1969 Folkets Hus, Stockholm

November 7, 1969 Philharmonie, Berlin

November 9, 1969 De Doelen, Rotterdam

Miles Davis Quintet - Rome, October 27,1969

Teatro Sistina, Rome (Italy)
Radio Televisione Italian (RAI) radio broadcast
Miles Davis Quintet

Miles Davis (tpt); Wayne Shorter (ss, ts); Chick Corea (el-p, wood fl); Dave Holland (b, el-b); Jack De Johnette (d)

Program:
1 Directions (J. Zawinul) (incomplete) 6:45
2 This (C. Corea) (incomplete) 9:15
3 'Round Midnight (B. Hanighen-C. Williams-T. Monk) 11:02
4 I Fall in Love Too Easily (S. Cahn-J. Styne) 1:30
5 Masqualero (W. Shorter) (with applause) 14:29
6 Bitches Brew (M. Davis) 14:41
7 Miles Runs the Voodoo Down (M. Davis) 15:02
8 Agitation (M. Davis) 8:20
9 I Fall in Love Too Easily (S. Cahn-J. Styne) 2:59
10 Sanctuary (W. Shorter-M. Davis) 4:02
11 The Theme (M. Davis) (with applause) 0:33

Bookshelf: Miles on Miles

Legendary trumpeter and St. Louis area native Miles Davis is one of the most talked-about and written-about musicians of the late 20th century, and he's now the subject of yet another book, Miles on Miles, which collects 30 interviews from various periods of Davis' storied career.

The blurb from publishers Lawrence Hill Books describes the volume as "essential reading for anyone who wants to know what Miles Davis thought about his music, life, and philosophy. Miles on Miles reveals the jazz icon as a complex and contradictory man, secretive at times but extraordinarily revealing at others. Miles was not only a musical genius, but an enigma, and nowhere else was he so compelling, exasperating, and entertaining as in his interviews, which vary from polite to outrageous, from straight-ahead to contrarian. Even his autobiography lacks the immediacy of the dialogues collected here. Many were conducted by leading journalists like Leonard Feather, Stephen Davis, Ben Sidran, Mike Zwerin, and Nat Hentoff. Others have never before seen print, are newly transcribed from radio and television shows, or appeared in long-forgotten magazines."

Edited by Paul Maher Jr. and Michael K. Dorr, the hardcover tome has 320 pages and a list price of $24.95. Lawrence Hill Books is a division of Chicago Review Press that "specializes in mostly nonfiction on topics of African American and Latino interest, progressive politics, civil and human rights, and feminism." (For what it's worth, they've also published a book on Davis' longtime arranger and collaborator Gil Evans that looks interesting...)