Miles & Quincy Live at Montreux
Occupation
- Trumpet: Miles Davis
- Conductor: Quincy Jones
- Alto Saxophone ( soloist): Kenny Garrett
- Trumpet, flugelhorn ( soloist): Wallace Roney
- Gil Evans Orchestra
- George Gruntz Concert Jazz Band
Miles & Quincy Live at Montreux is a jazz album by musician Miles Davis and Quincy Jones. It was taken during the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1991. Jones was also co- producer of the festival. The album was awarded the Grammy in 1994 for Best Performance by a jazz major ensembles.
Genesis
Davis experimented in previous years, with various combinations of jazz with rock, funk, pop and rap and it departed far from bebop and cool jazz of his recordings of the 1940s and 1950s, with some very negative reaction of jazz critics, but on the other hand, with Grammy - and sales success.
Jones had long spoken with Davis about the re-release of recordings by Miles Davis and Gil Evans. But he was able to convince him of the project only at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1991.
The Music
Davis returns in the documented in this album appearance to his musical roots, the back were in some cases more than forty years, "so surprised jazz fans". For example, Boplicity, with known capture of 22 April 1949, a long of past reference point.
The musical material comes from the collaboration between Davis and Evans, specifically from the albums Birth of the Cool, Miles Ahead, Porgy and Bess and Sketches of Spain.
The orchestral music has character by the great cast that resulted from the union of the Gil Evans Orchestra and George Gruntz Concert Jazz Band.
Criticism
Some critics such as Mark Deming see in this album " a recording of this historic concert which should turn out to be Davis ' last great triumph on the stage ."
Others reject the work totally from such as Hans Sterner " The once subtly styled orchestrations were diluted to the level of cheap mainstream. Even by the rich tones in Gil Evans ' idiosyncratic instrumentation with tuba and bass trombone or French horn was only a pale reflection. In addition, the musicians of the original sessions better understood on spotted, sharply accented tones. That Miles Davis no longer change between warm heat and biting cold in his solos brought about, hurts most. "
Most jazz critics see this sophisticated, but are usually agree with Ron Wynn, that this appearance does not always approaching that of arrangements by Gil Evans.
Title list
Occupation in Detail
The Gil Evans Orchestra
- Lew Soloff (trumpet )
- Miles Evans ( trumpet)
- Tom Malone (trombone)
- Alex Foster ( alto and soprano saxophone, flute)
- George Adams ( tenor sax, flute)
- Gil Goldstein (Keyboard)
- Delmar Brown ( Keyboard)
- Kenwood Dennard (drums, percussion )
The George Gruntz Concert Jazz Band
- Marvin Stamm ( trumpet, flugelhorn)
- John D' Earth (trumpet, flugelhorn)
- Jack Walrath (trumpet, flugelhorn)
- John Clark (French Horn )
- Tom Varner (French Horn )
- Dave Bargeron (euphonium, trombone)
- Earl McIntyre (euphonium, trombone)
- Dave Taylor ( bass trombone)
- Howard Johnson (tuba, baritone saxophone)
- Sal Giorgianni (alto saxophone)
- Bob Malach (tenor saxophone, flute, clarinet )
- Larry Schneider (tenor saxophone, oboe, flute, clarinet )
- Jerry Bergonzi (Tenor Saxophone )
- George Gruntz (piano)
- Mike Richmond ( bass)
- John Riley (drums, percussion)
- Wallace Roney (trumpet, flugelhorn)
Additional musicians of the George Gruntz Concert Jazz Band
- Manfred Schoof (trumpet, flugelhorn)
- Ack van Rooyen (trumpet, flugelhorn)
- Alex Brofsky (French Horn )
- Roland Dahinden (trombone)
- Claudio Pontiggia (French Horn )
- Anne O'Brien ( flute)
- Julian CAWDRY ( flutes)
- Hans Peter Frehner ( flutes)
- Michel Weber ( clarinet)
- Christian Gavillet (bass clarinet, baritone saxophone)
- Tilman tooth ( oboe)
- Dave Seghezzo (oboe)
- Xavier Duss (oboe)
- Judith Wenziker (oboe)
- Christian Raabe (bassoon)
- Reiner Erb (bassoon)
- Xenia Schindler ( harp)
- Conrad Herwig (trombone)
- Roger Rosenberg (bass clarinet, baritone saxophone)
Other musicians
- Benny Bailey (trumpet, flugelhorn)
- Carles Benavent (bass, electric bass)