Live In Europe 1967 (The Bootleg Series Vol. 1)
Miles Davis
Live In Europe 1967 (The Bootleg Series Vol. 1) is a multi‑disc archival release documenting Miles Davis’s “second great quintet” at a white‑hot peak, issued in 2011 as a 3‑CD plus 1‑DVD set (and later as a 5‑LP box). Drawn from state radio and television recordings over nine days of touring in October–November 1967, it presents full concerts from Antwerp, Copenhagen, and Paris on CD and adds video of sets from Stockholm and Karlsruhe on the DVD. The band—Miles Davis (trumpet), Wayne Shorter (tenor sax), Herbie Hancock (piano), Ron Carter (bass), and Tony Williams (drums)—runs through a relatively small book of tunes multiple times, including “Agitation,” “Footprints,” “Masqualero,” “Riot,” “No Blues,” “On Green Dolphin Street,” “Gingerbread Boy,” “‘Round Midnight,” “Walkin’,” “I Fall in Love Too Easily,” and “The Theme,” each version radically reshaped from night to night.
Critics emphasize that these performances show the quintet turning Davis’s mid‑’60s studio material into long, continuous sets where pieces flow together with minimal pauses, functioning almost like one extended, leaderless improvisation. The music balances hair‑trigger rhythmic shifts, harmonic abstraction, and open‑ended group interplay with enough reference to song forms and swing to keep it grounded, often cited as Davis’s last purely acoustic, straight‑ahead “jazz” statement before his electric, fusion‑era breakthroughs. With its combination of pristine archival sound, complete concerts, and a lavish booklet of photos and essays, Live In Europe 1967 (The Bootleg Series Vol. 1) is widely regarded as an essential document—both a primer on the “sound of surprise” that defined the second quintet and one of the most electrifying live jazz releases to emerge from the Davis vaults.
Live In Europe 1967 (The Bootleg Series Vol. 1)
Miles Davis
Live In Europe 1967 (The Bootleg Series Vol. 1) is a multi‑disc archival release documenting Miles Davis’s “second great quintet” at a white‑hot peak, issued in 2011 as a 3‑CD plus 1‑DVD set (and later as a 5‑LP box). Drawn from state radio and television recordings over nine days of touring in October–November 1967, it presents full concerts from Antwerp, Copenhagen, and Paris on CD and adds video of sets from Stockholm and Karlsruhe on the DVD. The band—Miles Davis (trumpet), Wayne Shorter (tenor sax), Herbie Hancock (piano), Ron Carter (bass), and Tony Williams (drums)—runs through a relatively small book of tunes multiple times, including “Agitation,” “Footprints,” “Masqualero,” “Riot,” “No Blues,” “On Green Dolphin Street,” “Gingerbread Boy,” “‘Round Midnight,” “Walkin’,” “I Fall in Love Too Easily,” and “The Theme,” each version radically reshaped from night to night.
Critics emphasize that these performances show the quintet turning Davis’s mid‑’60s studio material into long, continuous sets where pieces flow together with minimal pauses, functioning almost like one extended, leaderless improvisation. The music balances hair‑trigger rhythmic shifts, harmonic abstraction, and open‑ended group interplay with enough reference to song forms and swing to keep it grounded, often cited as Davis’s last purely acoustic, straight‑ahead “jazz” statement before his electric, fusion‑era breakthroughs. With its combination of pristine archival sound, complete concerts, and a lavish booklet of photos and essays, Live In Europe 1967 (The Bootleg Series Vol. 1) is widely regarded as an essential document—both a primer on the “sound of surprise” that defined the second quintet and one of the most electrifying live jazz releases to emerge from the Davis vaults.