Miles Davis - Tutu
I'm sitting here stunned that Sonny Rollins chose the centennial of Miles Davis to pass away, but I can't sit for long if I wanna get this megabeast of a folder happening for you all.
This is a long time coming and took a lot of effort to put into share shape, so you better get ready to get up with it today.
What is there to say? When I started assembling this a month ago I didn't really know where it would go, and now that it's all in the can I'm kind of comfortably numb from keeping track of it all.
There's a whole lot of centenaries in 2026 -- John Coltrane in September, of course, is one -- but there might not even have been a John Coltrane as we know him had it not been for The Chief recognizing talent.
That's probably what made Miles so far above and ahead of everyone else's curve, right? The ability to put a band together with young musicians no one may have heard of as of yet, but whose artistry he could feel and see the potential in from a galaxy away.
They all have their stories of The Chief, a figure of living myth. Like, everyone knows this one, where 'Trane comes to his boss and asks what to do because once he gets going on ideas in a solo, he can't find a way to stop.
So Miles tells him to just take the horn out of his mouth.
There's probably a million tales like that, from a zillion different people who crossed paths with -- or if they were lucky and good enough, worked for -- Miles Davis.
Miles Dewey Davis III. Born this day in 1926. Who is likely one of the five most important figures in all American music, if not #1 all time.
Like I was saying, I've been at this folder I'm sharing for a month, with the impetus being to make something that a kid just discovering this music would spend the next decade at least using as an introduction -- OK, a gateway drug and guidepost -- into its heart.
The heart not of darkness, but of The Prince of Darkness.
Miles Davis
100
1.
Falkoner Centret
Copenhagen, Denmark
10.28.1985
01 One Phone Call/Street Scenes/Speak/That's What Happened
02 Star People (aka New Blues)
03 Maze
04 Human Nature
05 MD 1/Something's On Your Mind/MD 2
06 Time After Time
07 Ms. Morrisine
08 Code M.D.
09 Pacific Express
10 Burn
11 Stronger Than Before
12 Hopscotch
13 Rubberband
14 Jean-Pierre/Then There Were None
15 Decoy
16 Broken Wings
Total time: 2:38:14
disc break goes after Tracks 05 & 11
Track 16 is a bonus track from Hallenstadion, Zürich CH 11.02.1985
Miles Davis - trumpet & keyboards
Bob Berg - tenor & soprano saxophone
Mike Stern - guitar
Robert Irving III - keyboards
Adam Holzman - keyboards
Angus Thomas - bass
Vincent Wilburn, Jr. - drums
Steve Thornton - percussion
Marilyn Mazur - percussion
Tracks 01-15 are sourced from the 1993 bootleg silver CD "Unissued '85: Live in Copenhagen" on the On Stage Records label,
and seem like a straight, master soundboard capture of the entire concert
Track 16 is purported to be sourced from a pitch-corrected 2nd gen cassette from the soundboard,
but the spectral analysis tops out at the 15 kHz lossless FM cutoff, so it is likely from an off-air FM capture
retracked, denoised, edited & remastered for unity by EN, with speed/pitch adjustments throughout by Prof. Goody, May 2026
1.04 GB FLAC/link to main folder is below
1.04 GB FLAC/link to main folder is below
2.
Fabrik
Hamburg, Germany
10.27.1986
01 walk-on & applause
02 One Phone Call/Street Scenes/Speak
03 Star People
04 Perfect Way
05 Human Nature
06 Wrinkle
07 Tutu
08 Splatch
09 Time After Time
10 Full Nelson
11 Carnival Time
12 Tomaas
13 Burn
14 Maze
15 Portia
Total time: 1:53:35
disc break goes after Track 08
Miles Davis - trumpet & keyboards
Garth Webber - guitar
Bob Berg - soprano & tenor saxophones
Robert Irving III - keyboards
Adam Holzman - keyboards
Darryl Jones - bass
Vincent Wilburn, Jr. - drums
Steve Thornton - percussion
master HiFi VHS off-air capture of the original, two-part NDR2 FM broadcast of the complete concert
edited, retracked, repaired & remastered by EN, May 2026
832 MB FLAC/link to main folder is below
3.
Estival Jazz Lugano
Padiglione Arte Casa
Centro delle Esposizioni
Lugano, Switzerland
7.1.1987
01 One Phone Call/Street Scenes/Speak
02 Star People
03 Perfect Way
04 The Senate/Me & U
05 Human Nature
06 Wrinkle
07 Tutu
08 Movie Star
09 Splatch
10 Time After Time
11 Full Nelson
12 Don't Stop Me Now
13 Carnival Time
14 Tomaas/band introductions
15 Burn
16 Portia
Total time: 2:10:16
disc break goes after Track 07
Miles Davis - trumpet
Kenny Garrett - alto saxophone & flute
Robert Irving III - keyboards
Adam Holzman - keyboards
Joseph "Foley" McCreary - high-register bass guitar
Darryl Jones - bass
Ricky Wellman - drums
Mino Cinelu - percussion
master soundboard VHS capture of the house monitor feed
edited by plaz in April 2013 and slightly retracked/remastered by EN, May 2026
889 MB FLAC/link to main folder is below
889 MB FLAC/link to main folder is below
Miles Davis
Inamorata
Electric Directions, 1969-1975
CD1
01 Inamorata & Sanctuary (narration: Conrad Roberts) (Live Evil 1970)
02 Inamorata (Cellar Door 1970)
03 Ali (Jack Johnson outtake 1970)
04 Moja (part II) (Dark Magus 1974)
05 The Ghetto Walk (In a Silent Way outtake 1969)
06 Lonely Fire (Bitches Brew outtake/Big Fun 1970)
07 What I Say? (Newport 1971)
CD2
08 Prelude (Agharta 1975)
09 Red China Blues (Get Up with It 1972)
10 Maiysha (Agharta 1975)
11 Ife (Montreux 1973)
12 Sanctuary/Spanish Key/The Theme (Isle of Wight 1970)
13 Billy Preston (Get Up with It 1972)
CD3
14 Sivad/Honky Tonk (Live Evil/Get Up with It 1970)
15 Duran (Jack Johnson outtake/Directions 1970)
16 Zimbabwe (Pangaea 1975)
17 Willie Nelson (Black Beauty/Fillmore West 1970)
18 Mr. Foster (On the Corner outtake 1972)
19 Bitches Brew (Newport 1969)
20 It's About That Time (Fillmore East 1970)
21 Black Satin (In Concert/NY Philharmonic 1972)
22 Miles Runs the Voodoo Down (Tanglewood 1970)
Total time: 3:31:40
compendium of Miles Davis electric period '70s jams
assembled, edited and remastered for unity by EN, May 2026
1.4 GB FLAC/link to main folder is below
1.4 GB FLAC/link to main folder is below
Miles Davis
Street Scenes
Electric Directions, 1981-1991
CD1
01 Theme from Jack Johnson (Right Off) (Decoy outtake 1984)
02 MD 1/Something's On Your Mind/MD 2 (Montreux 1984)
03 Back Seat Betty (We Want Miles 1981)
04 Code 3 (Montreal 1983)
05 Katia (You're Under Arrest 1985)
06 Time After Time (Montreux 1985)
07 Fat Time (The Man with the Horn 1981)
08 What It Is (Montreux 1984)
09 Code M.D. (Munich 1988)
CD2
10 Speak (Poland 1983)
11 Star People (Montreux 1984)
12 Decoy (Decoy 1984)
13 Ms. Morrisine (North Sea Jazz 1985)
14 Human Nature (Montreux 1985)
15 Maze (Rubberband 1985)
16 Penetration (Paris 1991)
17 Electric Red (Aura 1985)
18 The Senate-Me and U (Montreux 1990)
19 Wrinkle (Montreux 1986)
CD3
20 What’s Love Got to Do With It? (outtake 1984)
21 Come Get It (Star People 1982)
22 Big Time (Amandla 1989)
23 Splatch (Nice 1986)
24 Intruder (NYC 1988)
25 The Jam Session (w. Michel Legrand 1990)
26 Tutu (Tutu 1986)
27 Theme from Jack Johnson/One Phone Call/Street Scenes/That's What Happened (Montreux 1985)
28 Jean-Pierre (Japan 1981)
Total time: 3:58:42
compendium of Miles Davis electric period '80s jams
assembled, edited and remastered for unity by EN, May 2026
1.59 GB FLAC/link to main folder is below
1.59 GB FLAC/link to main folder is below
Various Artists
"Wall to Wall Miles Davis"
Symphony Space
New York City, New York USA
3.24.2001
CD1
Bitches Brew
01 Bobby Previte's Voodoo Down Orchestra - Bitches Brew/Spanish Key
Bobby Previte - drums/Ray Anderson - trombone/Peter Epstein - soprano saxophone/Adam Kolker - bass clarinet/Pete McCann - guitar/Russ Lossing - Fender Rhodes/Jon Dryden - Fender Rhodes/Peter Herbert - bass/Jim Pugliese - percussion
Relaxin’ with Miles
02 The Terrell Stafford Quartet - Milestones
03 The Terrell Stafford Quartet - It Could Happen to You
Terrell Stafford - trumpet/George Colligan - piano/Ed Howard - bass/Victor Lewis - drums
The Hot Spot
04 Olu Dara Ensemble - Excerpts from Doo-Bop
05 Olu Dara Ensemble - Excerpts from The Hot Spot
Olu Dara - cornet, guitar & vocals/Kwatei Jones Quartey - guitar/Alonzo Gardner - bass/Larry Johnson - drums/Coster Massamba - percussion
+unidentified narration
Miles Smiles
06 Bobby Watson & Horizon feat. Victor Lewis - Freedom Jazz Dance
07 Bobby Watson & Horizon feat. Victor Lewis - Gingerbread Boy/FM announcement
Bobby Watson - alto saxophone/Terrell Stafford - trumpet/Edward Simon - piano/Curtis Lundy - bass/Victor Lewis - drums
CD2
Mileselektronika
01 WBGO-FM - FM announcement
02 Hagans/Belden Animation feat. DJ Kingsize - Mother Dearest Mother/Paraphernalia
Tim Hagans - trumpet/Bob Belden - soprano saxophone/Scott Kinsey - keyboards/David Dyson - bass/Zach Danzinger - drums/DJ Kingsize - turntables
Live/Evil
03 Sex Mob w. Bill Frisell & DJ Logic - Selim
Steven Bernstein - slide trumpet/Briggan Krauss - saxophones/Bill Frisell - guitar/Tony Scherr - bass/Kenny Wollesen - drums/
DJ Logic - turntables & electronics
Song and Surprise
04 Jane Ira Bloom - How Deep Is the Ocean/Solar
Jane Ira Bloom - soprano saxophone & electronics/Vincent Bourgeyx - piano/Cameron Brown - bass/Bobby Previte - drums
Someday My Prince Will Come
05 The Campbell Brothers - Someday My Prince Will Come
06 The Campbell Brothers - Summertime
07 The Campbell Brothers - All Blues/FM announcement
Phil Campbell - guitar/Charles “Chuck” Campbell - pedal steel guitar/Darick Campbell - lap steel guitar/Malcolm Kirby - bass/Carlton Campbell - drums
The Miles Experience
08 Nora York - So What/I Don't Live Today
09 WBGO-FM - FM announcement
Nora York - vocals/Claire Daly - baritone saxophone/Dave Hofstra - bass/Ronnie Williams - drums
CD3
Urban Tap – Aura
01 WBGO-FM - FM announcement
02 Tamango & Fabio Morgera - Music inspired by Aura pt.1
03 Tamango & Fabio Morgera - Music inspired by Aura pt.2
Tamango - didgeridoo & tap dancing/Fabio Morgera - trumpet & electronics
Gemini Double Image
04 Burnt Sugar/The Arkestra Chamber - Mtume/Directions/Little Church
Gregory "Ironman" Tate - conductor/Lewis "Flip" Barnes - trumpet/Simi - electric violin/Julia Kent - cello/Rene Akhan - guitar/Morgan Michael Craft - guitar/Kirk Douglass - guitar/Vijay Iyer - piano/Bruce Mack - Korg M1 synthesizer/Jason Tobias DiMatteo - bass/Jared Michael Nickerson - bass/Honeychild - dulcimer/Tia Nicole Leak - percussion/Swiss Chris - drums/Qasim Naqvi - drums & tabia/Lisala Beatty - vocals/Justice X - vocals
Directions in Music
05 Dave Douglas New Quintet - Boplicity/Sanctuary/Kix
Dave Douglas - trumpet/Antonio Hart - alto saxophone/Uri Caine - Fender Rhodes/James Genus - bass/Clarence Penn - drums
Loose Change from The Plugged Nickel
06 Ingrid Jensen Group - I Fall In Love Too Easily
07 Ingrid Jensen Group - If I Were a Bell/Walkin'
Ingrid Jensen - trumpet/Gary Thomas - tenor saxophone & flute/Orrin Evans - piano & Fender Rhodes/Ed Howard - bass/Jeff “Tain” Watts - drums
CD4
Pop Songs
01 The Russell Gunn Group - Love for Sale
02 The Russell Gunn Group - Time After Time/FM announcement
Russell Gunn - trumpet/Carl Burnett - guitar/Marc Cary - piano/Taurus Mateen - bass/Terreon Gully - drums
He Loved Him Madly
03 Frank London & Invocations - He Loved Him Madly
Frank London - trumpet/Anthony Coleman - harmonium/Ken Filiano - bass/Kenny Wollesen - drums
When Miles Split!
04 Ntozake Shange - When Miles Split!
poem read by Amiri Baraka at Miles' memorial service in 1991
Ntozake Shange - voice
The Birth of the Cool
05 Graham Haynes Nonet - Jeru
06 Graham Haynes Nonet - Moon Dreams
07 Graham Haynes Nonet - Venus de Milo
08 Graham Haynes Nonet - Deception
09 Graham Haynes Nonet - Rouge
Graham Haynes - trumpet/Gary Valente - trombone/Vincent Chancey - French horn/Bob Stewart - tuba/Avram Fefer - alto saxophone/Alex Harding - baritone saxophone/Uri Caine - piano/Clarence Penn - drums
Sketches of Sketches
10 Nat Hentoff - The making of Sketches of Spain
documentary of an unheard session with Miles Davis & Gil Evans (1960) incl. Nat Hentoff interview
Behind Miles Ahead
11 George Avakian - Reminiscences of Miles Ahead and more
interview with George Avakian (producer of Miles Ahead, 1957)
CD5
Sketches of Miles
01 Melba Joyce - 'Round Midnight
02 Melba Joyce - All Blues
03 Melba Joyce - Blue In Green
Melba Joyce - vocals/Tanya Darby - trumpet/Kalyn Dean - trumpet/Anat Cohen - tenor saxophone/Dwight Dickerson - piano/Calvin Hill - bass/Wally "Gator" Watson - drums
Airegin
04 Joe Lovano Quintet - Airegin
05 Joe Lovano Quintet - Bags' Groove
06 Joe Lovano Quintet - Oleo
Joe Lovano - tenor saxophone/Tom Harrell - trumpet/Mulgrew Miller - piano/Cameron Brown - bass/Idris Muhammad - drums
The World of Miles
07 Mamadou Diabaté & The Ben Allison Trio - Seven Steps to Heaven
08 Mamadou Diabaté & The Ben Allison Trio - Milestones
Mamadou Diabaté - kora/Famoro Diabaté - balafon/Michael Blake - saxophones/Mike Sarin - drums/Ben Allison - bass
Prince of Darkness
09 David Sanchez & The Melaza Sextet - Prince of Darkness
David Sanchez - saxophone/Miguel Zenon - alto saxophone/Edsel Gomez - piano/Hans Glawischneg - bass/Antonio Sanchez - drums
CD6
Dark Magus
01 Melvin Gibbs' Liberation Theology w. Pete Cosey & Joe Lovano - Calypso Frelimo/Ife
Melvin Gibbs - bass/Graham Haynes - cornet/Joe Lovano - saxophones/Pete Cosey - guitar, sitar & thumb piano/James Hurt - keyboards/Terreon Gully - drums/Felix Sanabria - percussion/Nancy Assis - percussion/DJ Logic - turntables
In a Silent Way
02 Don Byron's Music for 6 Musicians - In a Silent Way
03 Don Byron's Music for 6 Musicians - Shhh/Peaceful / It's About That Time
Don Byron - clarinet & bass clairnet/James Zollar - trumpet/Edsel Gomez - piano/Leo Traversa -bass/Milton Cardona - congas/Ben Wittman - drums
Miles ‘58/’66
04 Eddie Henderson w. Jimmy Cobb - On Green Dolphin Street
05 Eddie Henderson w. Jimmy Cobb - Footprints
Eddie Henderson - trumpet/Kevin Hays - piano/Ed Howard - bass/Joe Locke - vibraphone/Jimmy Cobb - drums
Silent Ways & Means
06 interview: Lenny White, Dave Holland & Joe Zawinul
Kind of Blue Period
07 Ashley Kahn - The Making of Kind of Blue with Ashley Kahn
CD7
Sketches of Spain
01 Wallace Roney, Miles Evans & Ensemble - Concerto de Aranjuez
02 Wallace Roney, Miles Evans & Ensemble - Will O’The Wisp
03 Wallace Roney, Miles Evans & Ensemble - The Pan Piper
04 Wallace Roney, Miles Evans & Ensemble - Saeta
05 Wallace Roney, Miles Evans & Ensemble - Solea
06 Wallace Roney, Miles Evans & Ensemble - Song of Our Country
Maria Schneider - conductor/Wallace Roney - trumpet/Miles Evans - trumpet/Bud Burridge - trumpet/Laurie Fink - trumpet/Alexander Sipiagin - trumpet/Lew Soloff - trumpet/Dennis Wilson - trombone/Douglas Purviance - bass trombone/Theresa McDonnell - French horn/Jeffrey Scott – French horn/Tom Varner - French horn/Bob Stewart - tuba/Dennis Anderson - reeds/Charles Pillow - reeds/Mark Thrasher - reeds/Lou Marini - reeds/Rob Scheps - Reeds/Badrena -percussion/Terry Silverlight -drums
The Street
07 Jon Faddis, Jimmy Owens, Paquito D’Rivera, James Williams, John Patitucci & Tony Reedus - Donna Lee/Half Nelson
Jon Faddis - trumpet/Jimmy Owens - trumpet/Paquito D’Rivera - alto saxophone/James Williams - piano/John Patitucci - bass/Tony Reedus - drums
CD8
All Blues
01 WBGO-FM - FM announcement
02 Vernon Reid & Masque - Right Off
03 Vernon Reid & Masque - Freddie Freeloader
Vernon Reid - guitar/Miles Evans - trumpet/Micah Gaugh - tenor saxophone/Marion Browden - drums/Hank Schroy - bass/Leon Gruenbaum - keyboards/DJ Logic - turntables
Code M.D.
04 Adam Holzman & Brave New World - opening medley
05 Adam Holzman & Brave New World - Tomaas
06 Adam Holzman & Brave New World - Maze
Adam Holzman - keyboards/Freddy Cash, Jr. - bass/Aaron Heick - tenor saxophone
Homage
07 Wallace Roney Group - Lament/Filles de Kilimanjaro/A Love Supreme
08 Wallace Roney Group - 'Round Midnight
09 Wallace Roney Group - Frelon Brun/Portia
10 WBGO-FM - FM outro
Wallace Roney - trumpet/Adam Holzman - piano/Buster Williams - bass/Lenny White - drums/Antoine Roney - drums
Total time: 9:14:55
off-air FM capture of indeterminate origin -- possibly a HiFi VHS dub -- of highlights of an all-day event broadcast by WBGO-FM in NYC in 2001
edited, repaired, denoised, retracked & remastered by EN, May 2026
4.16 GB FLAC/direct link to entire folder
4.16 GB FLAC/direct link to entire folder
So yeah. There's Miles -- a lot of him in that 1985-87 comeback peak playing-wise -- who'd have turned 100 years old today as Sonny Rollins leaves the building at 95. Soon, there'll be only Recollections of greats of this world-altering caliber left.
Click that link if the main thing ain't enough, OK? It'll help ease you down. And all of this is why we need folders like these, that contain 24 hours of music to mark the day Miles Davis was born 100 years ago, and to try to help ensure in some kind of blue way that he'll still be in people's minds and ears long after all of us have split to that Jazz Paradise up yonder.--J.
5.26.1926 - 9.28.1991
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