mastodon 4.7.3Electric Miles enthusiast + excavator of high-altitude spiritual jams
50 years ago tonight, the Miles Davis septet launched a 3-week tour of Japan in its capital city. The first of 2 nights in Tokyo was recorded for radio broadcast, and the tape is a true gem of the electric era. Heady and remarkably tight, the music from 1/22 is a bold introduction to the weird, beautiful universe the band would construct in Japan then all but abandon at the tour’s end. #jazz #MilesDavis
50 years ago tonight, the Miles Davis septet began a 4-night run at the Troubadour in West Hollywood.
The date of the wooly audience tape is unspecified but the vibe is INTENSE, with the band exploring the abstract psychedelia they’d bring to concert halls across Japan in the following weeks. https://theheatwarps.com/2022/04/14/1975-troubadour/
50 years ago tonight, Miles + crew return to Tokyo to close an 11-date tour with a final blast of gigs. 🇯🇵
The 2/7 tape is a stone classic: tightly wound and more than a little frantic, as though the band were trying to cram a tour’s worth of peaks into 2 sets. “Ife” is a brief but potent dose and “Turnaroundphrase” > “Tune in 5 (w/“Willie Nelson” tease) is an easy tour highlight.
We’re back on the electric Miles journey through mid-summer, celebrating the 50th anniversary of every ultra-freaky 1975 tape as they happened.
There’s been barely a peep from official channels to commemorate Miles’ finest hour, so we’re taking the reins, motherfuckers.
50 years ago tonight: night 2 in Tokyo gets weird. The septet opens with a sprawling “Ife” that touches the edge of the cosmos and ends the night with 11 minutes of textural drum machine, howling feedback, and punishing synth noise. The aud tape is sonic pudding but suits the chaotic vibe.
The band returned to the scene of the crime (Tokyo’s Shinjuku Kosei Nenkin Hall) to close the tour 15 nights later. Odd itinerary but I guess times were different. #jazz #milesdavis https://theheatwarps.com/2022/04/21/1-22-23-1975-tokyo/
