Live Performances → “Celebrating Miles” at the Carmel Palladium
In celebration of the 85th Birthday of Miles Davis, the beautiful Carmel Palladium celebrated in a big way with two great sets of Davis classics.
The first set featured Wallace Roney, channeling Miles in a way no one else can. Along side was an all-star cast of musicians including Donald Harrison on alto, Javon Jackson on tenor, George Cables on piano, Buster Williams on bass and Lenny White on drums.
This set was dedicated to “early” Miles featuring some of his well know tunes such as My Funny Valentine, So What, Walkin, Autumn Leaves and an encore of the classic tune, All Blues featuring a nice solo by Lenny White.
After a brief intermission, bassist Marcus Miller along side trumpeter Sean Jones, saxophonist Alex Ham, Louis Cato on drums and Frederico Pena on keyboards performed a set of Mile’s tunes from his later electric period including “Splatch” from the 1986 recording “Tutu” which Miller had a his hands all over. Other tunes included the Ray Nobel penned classic “Cherokee”, and “Jean Pierre” recorded for the 1981 album “We Want Miles”.
June 30th, 2011 at 3:01 pm
Wish I had seen that – I really like the older Miles, especially his take on Autumn Leaves and My Funny Valentine…