A Complete uninterrupted performance by the legendary 1964 Miles Davis Quintet. Issued here on DVD for the first time ever!  The group on this outstanding DVD was probably the second greatest Miles Davis Quintet ever assembled, the first being the unit with John Coltrane, Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers and Jimmy Cobb. However, their filmed output is limited to merely four performances: three tunes from a Steve Allen show taped on September 10 and 11, 1964, the present Milan concert and the two European concerts already documented on our companion volume "European Tour 1967" (IJ518). When this Milan concert was recorded, the band had just recently formed. The core musicians (Miles on trumpet, Herbie Hancock on piano, Ron Carter on bass and Tony Williams on drums) had been working together ever since the recording of the album Seven Steps to Heaven, on May 14, 1963 (Herbie Hancock's very first session with Miles). However, after John Coltrane's departure, Miles had a very difficult time finding a tenor player to his liking. After separate stints with the quintet by Hank Mobley, George Coleman and Sam Rivers, Wayne Shorter took over the tenor chair in September 1964.
The concert at the Teatro Dell'Arte in Milan, Italy, was part of a European tour that included Germany, France, Denmark, Finland, a second stint in Germany, and finally Italy. The show featured a typical program for the period, with three standard tunes ("Autumn Leaves", "My Funny Valentine", and "All of You"), two originals from the early years ("The Theme" and "All Blues") and a relative novelty, Victor Feldman's "Joshua", which Miles had first recorded in his Seven Steps to Heaven LP.
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