Miles Davis
LIVE AROUND THE WORLD
Warner Bros 1988-1991 / 1996
In a Silent Way : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzLgVMBMOM8
New Blues : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBTgTdK-UkY
Human Nature : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lttlkkPWC3w
Time after Time : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BfXH3mgZdU
TuTu : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJQsOESMEZs
**Hannibal : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIOZHH8rtZ0
**Miles' last recording. He died a few weeks after this.
Excerpt from The Last Miles:
Live Around The World: On recording Miles’s last concert
Hindsight is a wonderful thing and you can be sure that if anyone had known that Miles’ performance at the Hollywood Bowl on 25 August 1991 would be his last, a video crew would have been dispatched to the stadium and probably a remote recording facility too. As it happened, this final performance was not even recorded professionally. Indeed, Miles’ concert sound mixer, Don Kurek didn’t even use a DAT [digital] recorder. Instead, he plugged an analogue Sony Walkman Pro deck into the mixing desk and in the words of road manager Gordon Meltzer: “ Recorded on the cheapest, one-dollar non-metal tape audio cassette you could get.” The resulting recording was dogged by tape hiss, pops and drop-outs (where the sound disappears because of blemishes on the tape’s oxide coating). Yet the producers of Live Around The World were able to salvage a recording that was good enough to include on a CD, and that was largely thanks to modern studio technology.
Cheers
Hindsight is a wonderful thing and you can be sure that if anyone had known that Miles’ performance at the Hollywood Bowl on 25 August 1991 would be his last, a video crew would have been dispatched to the stadium and probably a remote recording facility too. As it happened, this final performance was not even recorded professionally. Indeed, Miles’ concert sound mixer, Don Kurek didn’t even use a DAT [digital] recorder. Instead, he plugged an analogue Sony Walkman Pro deck into the mixing desk and in the words of road manager Gordon Meltzer: “ Recorded on the cheapest, one-dollar non-metal tape audio cassette you could get.” The resulting recording was dogged by tape hiss, pops and drop-outs (where the sound disappears because of blemishes on the tape’s oxide coating). Yet the producers of Live Around The World were able to salvage a recording that was good enough to include on a CD, and that was largely thanks to modern studio technology.
