Category Archives: Television

November 6, 1971 concert with Miles Davis to be rebroadcast by WDR

WDR (Westdeutscher Rundfunk) will rebroadcast the November 6, 1971 concert at the Philharmonie in Berlin on Monday, July 4, 2011, at 1:15 AM.

Das WDR Jazzline Archiv zeigt die legendären Konzerte der Berliner Jazztage aus den Jahren 1964 – 1975, diesmal das Konzert der Miles Davis Group in der Berliner Philharmonie vom 6. November 1971, bei dem Keith Jarrett an den Keyboards saß. Joachim Ernst Berendt bezeichnete Davis’ Auftritt in seiner Ansage als den bedeutendsten des ganzen Festivals. Zwischen 1970 und 1973 veränderten sich Sound und Look der Miles Davis Group radikal: Der Free Jazz wich langsam einem harten, teilweise fast schon Punkrock vorweg nehmenden Funk-Sound.

The musicians are the following:

  • Miles Davis (trumpet)
  • Gary Bartz (saxophone)
  • Keith Jarrett (electric piano, organ)
  • Michael Henderson (bass)
  • Ndugu Leon Chancler (drums)
  • Charles Don Alias (percussions)
  • James Mtume Forman (percussions)

Thanks to Uwe for the information!

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Live version of “Expectations” from 1969 available from ina.fr

A live version of “Expectations” (from the album of the same name, released in 1972), recorded for the “Tous en scène” TV show in Paris and broadcast on November 23, 1969 by La Deuxième Chaîne de l’ORTF, is available for download from the Institut national de l’audiovisuel Web site. A free snippet (20 seconds) is available. The full version (3:52) is available for 1.50 EUR (as a DRM-protected DivX video file, unfortunately – or as a DVD, but you’ll have to pay for shipping).

Keith Jarrett plays with Gus Nemeth (bass) and Aldo Romano (drums). As far as I know, this is the only video of this group ever released.

“Tous en scène” was produced by Pierre Desfons, Claude Ventura, Robert Bober, and Maurice Dugowson. For more information about this TV show, check out this blog post (in French).

Institut national de l’audiovisuel

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