''Miles! Miles! Miles! Live in Japan '81'' is an album by

Miles Davis Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926September 28, 1991) was an American trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th-century music. Davis adopted a variety of musi ...

, released exclusively in Japan in 1993. It contains recordings from the October 4, 1981 concert in

Tokyo Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and List of cities in Japan, largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, ...

, some of which had appeared on '' We Want Miles'', including the original version of the track "Jean-Pierre", elsewhere edited by producer Teo Macero to remove the first twenty-five seconds of introduction, consisting primarily of a guitar riff and

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Exc ...

Track listing

Sony Music Japan – SRCS 6513-4

Personnel

Musicians * Miles Davis – trumpet, Keyboard *

Bill Evans William John Evans (August 16, 1929 – September 15, 1980) was an American jazz pianist and composer who worked primarily as the leader of his trio. His use of impressionist harmony, interpretation of traditional jazz repertoire, block ch ...

– soprano saxophone * Mike Stern – electric guitar * Marcus Miller – electric bass * Al Foster – drums * Mino Cinelu – percussion Production * Motoaki Uehara – coordinator * Tomoo Suzuki – engineer (mixing) * Kazumi Sugiura – engineer (mastering) * Hideki Sawa – art direction * Katuji Abe – photography * Shigeru Uchiyama – photography

References

Miles Davis live albums 1981 live albums {{1980s-jazz-album-stub