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Miles DavisMy Funny Valentine - Miles Davis In Concert

My Funny Valentine 14:58
All Of You 14:55
Stella By Starlight 12:54
All Blues 8:52
I Thought About You 11:14
  • Ron Carter
  • Anthony Williams
  • Nat Hentoff
  • Herbie Hancock
  • Teo Macero
  • George Coleman

    George Coleman

    Tenor Saxophone

The concert was part of a series of benefits staged at the recently built Philharmonic Hall (now known as David Geffen Hall), co-sponsored by the NAACP, the Congress of Racial Equality and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Davis's set that night was ostensibly in support of voter registration in Mississippi and Louisiana, but he also mentioned in a Melody Maker interview that one of the concerts was in memory of John F. Kennedy, who had been assassinated the previous year. Kennedy's death had struck at the hopes of many in the Civil Rights Movement, a cause dear to Miles, who had expressed his admiration for the President in 1962: "I like the Kennedy brothers; they're swinging people."

Two albums were assembled from the concert recording. The up-tempo pieces were issued as Four & More, while My Funny Valentine consists of the slow and medium-tempo numbers. Davis biographer Ian Carr notes that the former were "taken too fast and played scrappily", while the Funny Valentine pieces "were played with more depth and brilliance than Miles had achieved before." He goes on to laud the album as "one of the very greatest recordings of a live concert … The playing throughout the album is inspired, and Miles in particular reaches tremendous heights. Anyone who wanted to get a vivid idea of the trumpeter's development over the previous eight years or so should compare [earlier recordings of "My Funny Valentine" and "Stella by Starlight"] with the versions on this 1964 live recording."

The hurried nature of the faster pieces that night has been partially attributed to the sheer importance of the event weighing on Davis's young rhythm section, who were playing their biggest date yet. Tensions were only worsened by their anger on finding out they would not be paid for the performance. Pianist Herbie Hancock, twenty-three years old at the time, later described the psychological pressure on the quintet:

"That was my first time playing at the Philharmonic Hall and that was, like, a big deal, because the new Carnegie Hall was the Philharmonic Hall. Just from the prestige standpoint I really wanted to play good—the whole band really wanted to play good because that was the whole band's first time playing there … although Miles had played at Carnegie Hall before … but it was really a special concert. Only the New York Philharmonic plays there … and I tell you something … it was really funny … when we walked away from that concert, we were all dejected and disappointed. We thought we had really bombed … but then we listened to the record - it sounded fantastic!"

The concert marked the final recording of George Coleman with Miles Davis. He would be replaced by Sam Rivers, then Wayne Shorter.

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Jazzyplaya's avatar

Edited 6 days ago

Just picked up a MINT sealed copy of this pressing.
Great sounding issue. The 360 Stereo is dynamic.
Was like Miles, Herbie, and Ron Carter in my living room…

wsevans's avatar

Excellent pressing, played this a second time after the first listen, all around quality is outstanding

AndyT7's avatar

Ordered this through MoFi when stock suddenly appeared as if from nowhere.

Listened yesterday and can confirm that my copy is immaculate: flat, centred, clean, and without any hint of IGD (at least to my ear). The sound is lush, spacious, and expansive. I now have a few of these Miles MoFi issues and this, I think, is the best sounding so far. Highly recommended - if you can get hold of a copy.

giantleech's avatar

Would be nice to have this puppy given some breathing room spread out on a 2 x LP set (33 1/3 rpm... sides would be still be stretching it at 45 rpm.)

koerichtk's avatar

I have a copy with the 1J and 1H codes in runout but they are stamped as in photos (not etched). Also does not have "masterworks".

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Adam_A's avatar

It's a fine live recording of the slower ballads from the same recordings that brought us 'Four' & More (Recorded Live In Concert). That recording I enjoy very much. This is ok, but for some reason doesn't grab me as much. I think I would have preferred a mix of the uptempo numbers with these slower takes. It's actually quite a long album as well, clocking in at about an hour on 1 LP. Sound isn't affected too greatly as it is a live recording.

timeware's avatar

My still-sealed copy I received today is perfect... clean, crisp, expansive soundstage, and dead-silent vinyl.