''1969 Miles Festiva De Juan Pins'' is a live album by Miles Davis recorded at the jazz festival in La Pinède,

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, Antibes, France, as an ORTF radio broadcast. Featuring saxophonist Wayne Shorter, pianist

Chick Corea Armando Anthony "Chick" Corea (June 12, 1941 – February 9, 2021) was an American jazz composer, pianist, keyboardist, bandleader, and occasional percussionist. His compositions "Spain", " 500 Miles High", "La Fiesta", "Armando's Rhumba", and ...

, bassist Dave Holland, and drummer

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, this line-up became known as "The Miles Davis Lost Quintet" as it did not record in the studio in this configuration. It performed twice at the Juan-les-Pins Festival, July 25 and 26.

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recorded both shows, but the music would not be released in its entirety until 2013. Music from this CD, which was recorded at the July 25 concert, and from the July 26 performance was included in the 2013 box set '' Live in Europe 1969: The Bootleg Series Vol. 2''.

Track listing (CD)

Personnel

Musicians * Miles Davis – trumpet * Wayne Shorter –

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, tenor saxophone *

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electric piano An electric piano is a musical instrument which produces sounds when a performer presses the keys of a piano-style musical keyboard. Pressing keys causes mechanical hammers to strike metal strings, metal reeds or wire tines, leading to vibrations ...

* Dave Holland –

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Production *

Teo Macero Attilio Joseph "Teo" Macero (October 30, 1925 – February 19, 2008) was an American jazz saxophonist, composer, and record producer. He was a producer at Columbia Records for twenty years. Macero produced Miles Davis' ''Bitches Brew'', and Dave ...

– producer * Moto Uehara – product manager * Koshin Satoh – artwork * Hozumi Nakadaira – photography

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:1969 Miles - Festiva De Juan Pins Miles Davis live albums 1993 live albums Live instrumental albums Sony Music live albums Albums produced by Teo Macero Albums recorded at Jazz à Juan