Miles Davis Group - 1987.11.11 - Rotterdam (The Netherlands)

Miles Davis Group
Rotterdam (Ahoy Hall), the Netherlands
11 November, 1987

Miles Davis at the Ahoy Hall (the present site of the North Sea Jazz Fest), Rotterdam, November 11, 1987. Among the best post-retirement Miles concerts I've been to. Don't exactly remember all the details of the concert, but I do remember its extraordinary length, being by far the longest of the many Miles concerts I've attended over the period 1967-1991.

I got the majority of this concert on two cassette tapes - long ago, somewhere back in 2002 - plus an additional four tracks this year through the internet, both direct sources from Jan Lohmann. Not the best audience recording (trumpet is a little distant), but very, very enjoyable. Never burned it onto CD until this year.

Both "Human Nature" (at c. 8:20) and "Splatch" (at c. 8:11) are in two parts, having splits at the indicated timings, one because of a tape flip whereas the other occurred in the original tape.

Enjoy!


Personnel:
Miles Davis (tp,keyb), Kenny Garrett (as,fl), Bobby Irving III & Adam Holzman (synth), Joe "Foley" McCreary (g), Darryl Jones (elb), Ricky Wellman (dr), Rudy Bird (perc, vcl)

Track list:
01 One Ohone Call-Street Scenes
02 Speak
03 Star People
04 Perfect Way
05 The Senate-Me And You
06 Human Nature
07 Wrinkle
08 Tutu (nc)
09 Movie Star
10 Splatch
11 Time After Time
12 Full Nelson
13 Don't Stop Me Now
14 Carnival Time
15 Tomaas

(encores:)
16 Jean Pierre
17 Burn
18 Portia

Lineage:
? > tape or CD > tape > recording, tracking and editing wav file in Audacity > CD-R > wav > TLH (Flac 8, align on sector boundaries)

or (last four tracks:)
? > tape or CD > flac files > wav files > CD-R > wav > TLH (Flac 8, align on sector boundaries)

Audio quality:
B++