muzycy:
Miles Davis:Trumpet
Dave Liebman:Tenor & Soprano Sax, Flute
Reggie Lucas:Electric Guitar
Pete Cosey:Electric Guitar & Percussion
Michael Henderson:Electric Bass
Al Foster:Drums
James “Mtume” Forman:Conga & Percussion

Editor's info:
This release contains a previously unissued Miles Davis performance from his 1973 European tour in its entirety. The band includes bassists Michael Henderson, one of the first notable bassists of the Jazz-Rock era as well as one of the most influential jazz and soul bass players of the past 40 years.

Before working with Miles, he toured with Stewie Wonder. Miles heard him in early 1970 and reportedly said to Wonder: "I´ m takin´ your fuckin´bass player."

This concert was recorded in 1973 with a very similar line-up to the later releases Dark Magus, Agharta, and Pangaea, featuring Al Foster on drums, Michael Henderson on bass, Mtume on percussion, Dave Liebman on sax, and most importantly Reggie Lucas and Pete Cosey on guitar. It contains some material from the previously listed albums, and plenty that is not, at least in any recognizable form. Miles was recovering from a car accident, but refused to quit playing. “Just because I was forty-seven years old in 1973 didn't mean I was supposed to sit down in some rocking chair and stop thinking about how to keep doing interesting things. I had to do what I was doing if I was going to keep thinking of myself as a creative artist”, he explained in his autobiography. Bassist Michael Henderson was one of the first notable bassists of the Jazz-Rock era as well as one of the most influential jazz and soul bass players of the past 40 years. Before working with Miles, he toured with Steve Wonder. Miles heard him in early1970 and reportedly said to Wonder: "I'm takin' your fuckin' bass player."

Note: This music comes from private amateur recordings and the sound quality is not up to today’s standards. Every effort has been made to improve it utilizing modern technologies.

Miles Davis stał się czołową postacią jazzu w latach 50. jego wizjonerskie nagrania/formacje miały odtąd decydujący wpływ na rozwój muzyki jazzowej.
Tak jak nagrania jego kwintetu z lat 60. [Davis/Hancock/Shorter/Carter/Williams] to co robił w latach 70. miało moc wyznaczania nowych kierunków.
Wydarzeniem stał się wydany w 1970 r. podwójny album "Bitches Brew", stanowiący swego rodzaju manifest jazzu elektrycznego, nowego gatunku, który przebojem wdzierał się do pierwszej ligi. Koncepcję tę Miles rozwinął w albumach, które fusion i jazz rock ustawiły na najwyższym artystycznym poziomie (np. "Jack Johnson", "Live-Evil", "On The Corner", "Big Fun").
Nowa muzyka Milesa lat 70. postawiła kontrowersyjnego twórcę w roli propagatora wszystkiego, co nowe i awangardowe w jazzie. To wtedy w składach Milesa pojawili się m.in. McLaughlin, Hancock, Corea, Airto, Cobham, Zawinul, Foster.
Z tego właśnie okresu pochodzi koncertowe nagranie z wiedeńskiej Stadthalle z 3 listopada 1973 roku.
Ponad godzinę mrocznej, transowej, gęstej muzyki, z której wyłania się zupełnie nowy obraz futurystycznego jazzu, który zachwyca także dzisiaj.
Na płycie usłyszymy basistę Stevie’go Wondera – Michaela Hendersona, którego Miles „ukradł” Wanderowi po koncercie w 1971, kiedy to podszedł do Stevie’go Wandera i powiedział „I’m takin’ your fuckin’ bass player”. Ciekawe czy właśnie tak Miles Davis kompletował swój zespół?
autor: Andrzej Majak

Editor's info:
This release contains a previously unissued Miles Davis performance from his 1973 European tour in its entirety. The band includes bassists Michael Henderson, one of the first notable bassists of the Jazz-Rock era as well as one of the most influential jazz and soul bass players of the past 40 years.

Before working with Miles, he toured with Stewie Wonder. Miles heard him in early 1970 and reportedly said .......
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