Miles Davis at Carnegie Hall
Live album by
Miles Davis
ReleasedJuly 16, 1962
RecordedMay 19, 1961
VenueCarnegie Hall
New York City
Genre
Length44:54
LabelColumbia
ProducerTeo Macero
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Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Down Beat
(Original LP release)		[1]
AllMusic[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings [3]

Miles Davis at Carnegie Hall: The Legendary Performances of May 19, 1961 is a live album by American jazz musician Miles Davis originally released by Columbia in 1962.

Background

This live performance features Davis with his regular quintet and accompanied by Gil Evans and his 21-piece orchestra. The orchestra and quintet together perform selections from Miles Ahead and Sketches of Spain, while the quintet by itself performs both Davis originals and standards by Sonny Rollins and Ahmad Jamal, among others.

Although Davis and Evans recorded multiple albums together, there were only two live performances ever with both quintet and orchestra. On top of the rarity of the occasion, the Carnegie Hall recording features a few one-offs: the only recordings of the Gil Evans-orchestrated introduction to "So What" and a version of "Spring Is Here," again arranged by Evans.

Track listing

Original release

The original LP was released in two versions: as CL 1812 in monaural and CS 8612 as "electronically re-channeled for stereo."[4][5]

All tracks are written by Miles Davis, except as noted.

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."So What" 12:04
2."Spring Is Here"
3:58
3."No Blues" 10:55
4."Oleo"Sonny Rollins7:23
5."Someday My Prince Will Come"
2:43
6."The Meaning of the Blues / Lament / New Rhumba"
8:31

1998 Columbia/Legacy release

A two-disc CD version of the complete concert in chronological order was released by Sony/Columbia in 1998. This edition features the original mono mix.

Disc 1

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."So What"Davis12:01
2."Spring Is Here"Rogers, Hart3:58
3."Teo"Davis9:10
4."Walkin'"Richard Carpenter9:32
5."The Meaning Of The Blues / Lament"Troup, Worth / Johnson4:34
6."New Rhumba"Jamal4:07


Disc 2

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Someday My Prince Will Come"Churchill, Morey2:55
2."Oleo"Rollins7:19
3."No Blues"Davis10:38
4."I Thought About You"Jimmy Van Heusen, Johnny Mercer5:00
5."En Aranjuez Con Tu Amor (adagio from Concierto de Aranjuez)"Joaquín Rodrigo17:05

Personnel

The Miles Davis Quintet

The Gil Evans Orchestra

Production

Chart history

Chart Peak
position
US Billboard Top Jazz Albums[6] 59

References

  1. ↑ Down Beat: October 11, 1962 vol. 29, no. 26
  2. ↑ https://www.allmusic.com/album/r106139
  3. ↑ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 345. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
  4. ↑ Stephen Thomas Erlewine. "At Carnegie Hall – Allmusic". Allmusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 2011-06-12.
  5. ↑ "MILES DAVIS At Carnegie Hall LP 6-eye mono CL 1812". Ebay. Retrieved 2011-06-12.
  6. ↑ "At Carnegie Hall – Allmusic – Charts & Awards". AllMusic. Retrieved 2011-06-12.
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