Miles Davis – Tokyo, Japan (07/25/87)

Miles Davis
1987-07-25 (b)
July 25, 1987
Yomiuri-Land Open Theatre ‘East’
Tokyo, Japan

JOAU-FM radio broadcast, 55:37

Miles Davis (tp,kb), Kenny Garrett (as,fl), Bobby Irving III, Adam Holzman (synth), Joe “Foley” McCreary (lead b), Darryl Jones (elb), Ricky Wellman (dr), Mino Cinelu (perc)

01 band warming up (1:10)
02 One Phone Call / Street Scenes (1:02)
03 Speak (7:18)
04 Human Nature (7:23)
05 Wrinkle (6:35)
06 The Senate / Me & U (10:05)
07 Tutu (8:28)
08 Splatch (5:38)
09 Time After Time (7:40) [fade out on closing with voiceover last 5.5s]

Editing (plaz):

  • corrected DC offsets
  • gain normalized and retracked
  • balanced track 1
  • repaired gain fluctuations, clicks, pops, and static bursts
  • increased gain of track 8 by 1.35 dB and track 9 by 1.65 dB
  • restored subtle analog peak clipping (compression/limiting) to clarify cymbals, tympani and muted trumpet
  • lightly declclicked and decrackled

Notes:

  • excellent FM capture
  • interesting mix, very different from the TV audio (a) version, and no interruptions
  • perhaps one or both of the channels are inverted