Miles Davis – London, England (11/01/69)

Miles Davis Quintet
11-01-1969
Hammersmith Odeon
London, United Kingdom

Project ID – LL175

Source: Audience Recording
Lineage: Monaural audience recording > analog reel(s)/cassette(s) (unknown gen.)

DAT @32 kHz > wav via S/PDIF and M-Audio Audiophile digital soundcard >
Wavelab 5.0 and SoundForge 6.0 >CD Wave >FLAC (level 8)

Miles Davis (tpt); Wayne Shorter (ss, ts); Chick Corea (el-p);
Dave Holland (b, el-b); Jack DeJohnette (d)

disc 1

d1t01. Introduction/
d1t02. Directions
d1t03. Bitches Brew
d1t04. It’s About That Time
d1t05. I Fall in Love Too Easily
d1t06. Sanctuary
d1t07. No Blues
d1t08. Paraphernalia
d1t09. Masqualero/

Notes:

  • d1t01: the announcement sounds to be cut short
  • d1t02: The sound is very distant and muffled up to about :24, then it seems to improve.
    there is another drop in levels at 2:30 taking the quality back down a bit with more of a
    muffled sound. There seem to be a splice or a cut at 7:22
  • d1t03: Digipop at 1:39, 4:35, 7:49, 12:11, 12:14, and 12:35. Drop out at 5:51 – 5:53. Mic
    adjustment at 12:23, 14:07.
  • d1t04: Static at 11:02, 11:08. Mic adjustment at 15:40, 16:40
  • d1t05: at 1:46 there is a loud thump. I believe this was a mic bump. There are small
    mic bumps and adjustments throughout thistrack.
  • d1t06: This track also has the small mic bumps and adjustements for the first quarter
    of the track. dropout at 1:56.
  • d1t07: the levels seem to bump up at :37. Mic bumps, adjustments throughout this track
    as well.
  • d1t09: There are a few level changes in this track, very minor. At 8:52 through
    8:58 there is a very odd artifact. I don’t believe it should be there, but I may be wrong.
    Drop out at 9:41. Track is cut at the end, music lost.
  • The sound is overall a bit distant and muffled sounding. Being a Miles audience
    recording from the late 60’s the overall sound is pretty good and par for the course
    when compared to other examples I’ve heard. I wouldn’t pass it by myself.
  • “The Davis Quintet played two concerts at the Hammersmith Odeon on this date.
    This is the second concert. The Quintet toured Europe in October-November 1969 as
    part of the Newport Jazz Festival in Europe produced by George Wein.”
  • Credit to Peter Losin, http://www.plosin.com/
  • QC done by Bgreen

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