Rare Miles Davis Live
Josh Jones’s blog on Open Culture about live Miles Davis material from the ‘60s, when he was at the peak of his powers, includes some rarities, including a great 1969 Antibes/Juan-Les-Pins performances of “Milestones,” “Footprints” and “‘Round Midnight” by the quintet with Wayne Shorter, Chick Corea, Dave Holland and Jack DeJohnette. The complete audio of their two days at Antibes is in Live In Europe 1969, the second box set in Miles’s Bootleg Series on Columbia.
-Michael Cuscuna
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How Dave Holland Joined Miles Davis
Peter Blasevick pointed to this interview with Dave Holland, conducted by Dr.David Schroeder for NYU’s Steinhardt Jazz Studies Program. Dave relates in genial and often amusing detail the circumstances leading to his hiring by Miles Davis, and his first performances with the band. Listen to Dave Holland’s account, and watch the video clip the Daily Jazz Gazette recently posted of the Miles Davis Second Quintet, and get an immediate, colorful sense of the Miles Davis experience of the day.
-Nick Moy
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An exquisitely recorded look at Dave Holland and McCoy Tyner in concert at Jazz Baltica 2010. An extended look at Holland in peak form. Thanks to Bret Primack for the point.
-Nick Moy
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Barry Altschul: Both Sides of Now
Drummer Barry Altschul, who turned 70 earlier this month (he celebrated at Roulette in Brooklyn), has made a lot of great music both outside and inside, with the likes of Dave Holland, Sam Rivers, Anthony Braxton, Chick Corea and Jon Irabegon. Altschul shared some of what he’s seen from both vantage points with Hank Shteamer, in Burning Ambulance.
-Nick Moy
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