Miles Davis Sextet - 1982 (30 April) - Amsterdam Concertgebouw

Miles Davis Sextet
Amsterdam (Concertgebouw)
30 April, 1982

Two days after the Hague. Not a radio broadcast (there were none), but just a private audience recording, not the best quality (I would say a fair "B").

I've been at both 1982 concerts, the Hague (28 April) and Amsterdam (30 April). The recordings we have available right now (radio broadcast and PR, respectively) fairly reflect my experience (and memory) as a listener in the audience.

In the Hague, I was sitting on row 4 (front, midstage) having a very good view and the bass parts resonating through my body! (made some photographs of that concert, many of them just from my seat, that became part of the artwork of the Miles list 1982 tree). The Amsterdam concert wasn't at first planned for that tour, but arranged at a very short notice. I bought the tickets in Amsterdam on the day itself. Our seats were now less conveniently located, somewhere in the back of the hall, and I didn't like the sound there as much as I had enjoyed it in the Hague. Apart from the seat locations, I think the more modern architecture of the Congress Centre in the Hague was more suited to the amplified electronics of the group than the classic Concertgebouw at the time.

Received this Amsterdam concert in a trade, years ago, as two audio CDs with one (untracked) sound track per CD. Last night I applied some tracking to the CD contents, and from a very recent Jan Lohmann info (not in his book; see all the way below) we may conclude it's actually all there and it's (almost) the complete concert!

Except for some minor editing in Audacity (reducing the volume level), I left the music essentially as it was on the two CDs. Anyway, I didn't leave anything out; the abrupt changes, sort of coinciding with the track boundaries I applied, were all present in the originals.

Enjoy!


Personnel:
Miles Davis(tp,keyb), Bill Evans(ts,ss,fl), Mike Stern(g), Marcus Miller(el-b), Al Foster(d), Mino Cinelu(perc).

Track list:
01 Back Seat Betty
02 My Man's Gone Now
03 Aida
04 Ife (part 1, very short)
05 Ife (part 2)
06 Fat Time
07 Jean Pierre

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

Audio quality: B

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(Jan Lohmann's info:)

820430 - Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, Holland, PR.
Miles Davis Sextet:
Miles Davis(tp,keyb), Bill Evans(ts,sop-1,fl-3), Mike Stern(g), Marcus Miller(elb), Al Foster(dr), Mino Cinelu(perc).

1st set:
Part of Medley (42:58):
Back Seat Betty (1) 15:03
My Man's Gone Now 10:57
Aida 16:58

2nd set:
Start of medley (00:20):
Ife * (inc) 00:20

Part of Medley (36:32):
Ife (3) (inc) 13:53
Fat Time 09:36
Jean Pierre (1) (inc) 13:03

End of medley (02:51):
Jean Pierre (inc) 02:51

Note:
*: Omit Evans on this small excerpt.