Miles Davis - the PSJ-X-003 files

After several late 50’s and mid 70’s post, We move into the 80s this time with the 1 rare live recording from 1988 issued by the Poljazz label. There were 2 LPs issued only for members of The Polish Jazz Society. Legend has it that they pressed in quantities of only 1000 each. The dates are 23 October 1983 and 30 October 1988, both concerts recorded live at Sala Kongresowa, Warsaw by Polish radio and TV. You can read about them in a little more detail in Jan Lohmann's discography.

Music and personnel:

10/30/88
In A Silent Way
Intruder
Star People
Perfect Way
The Senate/Me and You
Wrinkle
Tutu

Miles Davis
Kenny Garrett
Joey DeFrancesco
Adam Holzman
Foley
Benny Rietveld
Ricky Wellman
Marilyn Mazur

In my experience, 10/23/83 is found pretty commonly on collectors' lists but 10/30/88 is much more rare.

Marcus Miller - Panther Live

Marcus Miller is a jazz musician, composer and producer, perhaps best known as a bass guitarist with Miles Davis and David Sanborn. Miller is classically trained as a clarinetist, and also plays bass clarinet, keyboards, saxophone, and guitar, and is a capable singer.

This recording was out circa mid 90's. on the german Jazzdoor label. Jazzdoor published very design and extremly good unofficial soundboard recordings of jazz artists using the early 90s european copyright loopholes. They managed very well, moving their distribution from independant to the big companies allowing their cds to be displayed on the highstreet retailer in Europe -IE: FNAC in France -. When Panther - live was displayed on the shelves of the FNAC Paris, Dreyfus records - whom Marcus Miller was in contract with - sent an injunction to all FNAC oulets in order to remove them on the same day. It became a collectible item ever since.

It was also classic for bootleg labels in Germany to change the date and location for their production. Personaly I doubt that this line up ever played together in 1988 in USA.

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Total time 50:47. 6 tracks @ 192kbps

Marcus Miller - bass guitar, Kenny Garrett - saxophone, Michael "Patches" Steward - trumpet, Bernhard Wright - keyboards, Morris Pleasure - keyboards, Poogie Bell - drums.

1. Panther
2. Scoop
3. Steveland
4. Rampage
5. Tutu
6. Ju Ju

This post is dedicated to my friend Philippe Ferrari who passed away too early and too sudenly. Great jazz and music lover, taper, my Paris jazz club guide. your dozen of live recordings will be a good testimony!!! I miss you a lot!!