Miles Davis – San Francisco, CA (04/12/70)

Miles Davis Sextet
April 12, 1970
Fillmore West Auditorium
San Francisco, CA

Project ID – LMPP214

Source: Soundboard
Lineage: SBD >? >DAT @ 48 kHz >.wav via S/PDIF and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 digital soundcard >SoundForge 6.0 >CD Wave > FLAC Frontend (level 8, SBE OK)

Miles Davis (tpt); Steve Grossman (ss); Chick Corea (el-p); Dave Holland (b, el-b); Jack De Johnette (d); Airto Moreira (perc)

disc 1

d1t01. It’s About That Time
d1t02. Directions
d1t03. I Fall in Love Too Easily
d1t04. Sanctuary
d1t05. Footprints
d1t06. Agitation
d1t07. No Blues
d1t08. Bitches Brew
d1t09. Spanish Key
d1t10. The Theme

Notes:

From original text file by Milesian June 2005:

“Technical Note: During the transfer from DAT to hard drive the source DAT snapped. The portion remaining after the break was then copied to hard drive and 1:58 from the Miles Trees source was spliced in to complete the recording. Channels were swapped and pitch adjusted on the Miles Trees portion to minimize differences in acoustic character.”

– d1t02: ~5:39 rch pinned / lch some minor high freq noise, ~9:48 rch pinned / lch some minor high freq noise
– d1t05: from ~9:12 thru ~9:41 ~ 16khz carrier appears (not audible)
– d1t07 ~ 0:02 rch pnned / lch some minor high freq noise
– d1t08: ~0:14 two closely spaced discontinuites (maybe a few samples are missing); ~2:08 rch pinned for .2 seconds, lch some high freq noise; ~5:51 brief rch pop/glitch; 9:52 thru ~ 11:53 “hiss” level rises

General comments about source quality:

– source audio signal insigificant above 8kHz,
– hiss level unobtrusive compared to LMPP215
– Poster billed band as “Miles Davis Quintet” though 6 musicians performed
– “Credit to Peter Losin, http://www.plosin.com/” for lineup information
– QC done by mfv