The Complete Miles Davis at Montreux

The Complete Miles Davis at Montreux is a box set of twenty discs compiling the eleven sets Miles Davis performed at his nine appearances at the Montreux Jazz Festival between 1973 and 1991 released in 2002.

The Complete Miles Davis at Montreux
Box set by
Released2002 (2002)
RecordedJuly 8, 1973 – July 17, 1991 (1973-07-08 – 1991-07-17)
VenueMontreux Jazz Festival
Lake Geneva, Switzerland
GenreJazz fusion
Length19:00:42
LabelColumbia
ProducerClaude Nobs
Miles Davis live box set chronology
The Complete Live at the Plugged Nickel 1965
(1995)
The Complete Miles Davis at Montreux
(2002)
In Person Friday and Saturday Nights at the Blackhawk, Complete
(2003)
Miles Davis live chronology
In Concert
(1972)
The Complete Miles Davis at Montreux
(1973)
Dark Magus
(1974)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings [2]

Track listing

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All tracks are written by Miles Davis unless otherwise noted

Disc one: July 8, 1973
No.TitleLength
1."Miles in Montreux 73, part 1" (Turnaroundphrase)16:35
2."Miles in Montreux 73, part 2" (Tune in 5)19:53
Total length:36:28
Disc two: July 8, 1973
No.TitleLength
1."Ife"27:23
2."Calypso Frelimo"16:00
3."Miles in Montreux 73, part 3" (Unknown 730620)14:51
Total length:58:14 1:34:42
Disc three: July 8, 1984 (Afternoon)
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Speak/That's What Happened"
11:43
2."New Blues" 8:41
3."What It Is"
  • Davis
  • Scofield
8:05
4."It Gets Better" 13:46
5."Something on Your Mind"11:10
Total length:53:25
Disc four: July 8, 1984 (Afternoon)
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Time after Time"13:56
2."Hopscotch"Marcus Miller7:11
3."Bass Solo" 1:26
4."Jean Pierre" 10:07
5."Lake Geneva" 4:20
6."Something on Your Mind" (Reprise)
  • Eaves III
  • Williams
7:31
Total length:44:31 1:37:56
Disc five: July 8, 1984 (Evening)
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Speak/That's What Happened"
  • Davis
  • Scofield
8:29
2."New Blues" 9:06
3."What It Is"
  • Davis
  • Scofield
9:21
4."It Gets Better" 13:30
5."Something on Your Mind"
  • Eaves III
  • Williams
13:00
Total length:53:26
Disc six: July 8, 1984 (Evening)
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Time after Time"
  • Lauper
  • Hyman
12:08
2."Hopscotch"Miller8:09
3."Bass Solo" 1:53
4."Jean Pierre" 10:31
5."Lake Geneva" 3:16
6."Something on Your Mind" (Reprise)
  • Eaves III
  • Williams
10:45
7."Code M.D."Robert Irving III6:51
Total length:53:33 1:46:59
Disc seven: July 14, 1985 (Afternoon)
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."One Phone Call/Street Scenes/That's What Happened"
  • Davis
  • Scofield
13:27
2."New Blues" 6:39
3."Maze"9:55
4."Human Nature"5:31
5."MD 1/Something on Your Mind/MD 2"
  • Davis
  • Eaves III
  • Williams
13:24
6."Time after Time"
  • Lauper
  • Hyman
8:18
7."Ms. Morrisine"
  • Morrisine Tynes Irving
  • Davis
  • Irving III
10:36
Total length:1:07:48
Disc eight: July 14, 1985 (Afternoon)
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Code M.D."Irving III8:01
2."Pacific Express"John McLaughlin14:46
3."Katia"Irving III7:07
4."Hopscotch"Miller5:55
5."You're under Arrest"Scofield6:38
6."Jean Pierre/You're under Arrest/Then There Were None"
  • Davis
  • Scofield
9:04
7."Decoy"Irving III4:13
Total length:55:44 2:03:32
Disc nine: July 14, 1985 (Evening)
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."One Phone Call/Street Scenes/That's What Happened"
  • Davis
  • Scofield
14:06
2."New Blues" 6:16
3."Maze"
  • Davis
  • Erin Davis
  • Hall
  • Giles
10:05
4."Human Nature"
  • Porcaro
  • Bettis
7:37
5."MD 1/Something on Your Mind/MD 2"
  • Davis
  • Eaves III
  • Williams
13:24
6."Time after Time"
  • Lauper
  • Hyman
11:07
Total length:1:02:35
Disc ten: July 14, 1985 (Evening)
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Ms. Morrisine"
  • Irving
  • Davis
  • Irving III
10:12
2."Code M.D."Irving III8:10
3."Pacific Express"McLaughlin15:25
4."Katia"Irving III8:15
5."Hopscotch"Miller7:41
6."You're under Arrest"Scofield7:16
7."Jean Pierre/You're under Arrest/Then There Were None"
  • Davis
  • Scofield
8:43
8."Decoy"Irving III5:04
Total length:1:00:46 2:03:21
Disc eleven: July 17, 1986
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."One Phone Call/Street Scenes/That's What Happened"
  • Davis
  • Scofield
9:08
2."New Blues" 5:55
3."Maze"
  • Davis
  • Erin Davis
  • Hall
  • Giles
10:20
4."Human Nature"
  • Porcaro
  • Bettis
8:36
5."Wrinkle"
10:55
6."Tutu"Miller6:53
7."Splatch"Miller11:16
Total length:1:03:03
Disc twelve: July 17, 1986
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Time after Time"
  • Lauper
  • Hyman
8:32
2."Al Jarreau" 6:23
3."Carnival Time"Neil Larsen4:27
4."Burn"
  • Irving III
  • Hall
8:26
5."Portia"Miller7:22
6."Jean Pierre" 9:35
Total length:44:45 1:47:48
Disc thirteen: July 7, 1988
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."In a Silent Way"Joe Zawinul1:04
2."Intruder" 4:54
3."New Blues" 7:07
4."Perfect Way"4:50
5."The Senate/Me and You"Joseph "Foley" McCreary9:20
6."Human Nature"
  • Porcaro
  • Bettis
13:01
7."Wrinkle"
  • Davis
  • Erin Davis
  • Hall
  • Giles
  • Linsey
8:15
8."Tutu"Miller11:05
9."Time after Time"
  • Lauper
  • Hyman
8:11
Total length:1:07:47
Disc fourteen: July 7, 1988
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Movie Star"Prince Rogers Nelson4:27
2."Splatch"Miller9:22
3."Heavy Metal Prelude" 5:23
4."Heavy Metal" 6:25
5."Don't Stop Me Now"7:19
6."Carnival Time"Larsen13:19
7."Jean Pierre" 8:50
8."Tomaas"
  • Davis
  • Miller
11:08
Total length:1:06:13 2:14:00
Disc fifteen: July 21, 1989
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Intruder" 5:47
2."New Blues" 12:08
3."Perfect Way"
  • Gartside
  • Gamson
6:35
4."Hannibal"Miller10:43
5."Human Nature"
  • Porcaro
  • Bettis
10:50
6."Mr. Pastorius"Miller4:31
7."Tutu"Miller13:29
Total length:1:04:03
Disc sixteen: July 21, 1989
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Jilli"John Bigham5:56
2."Time after Time"
  • Lauper
  • Hyman
10:46
3."Jo Jo"Miller5:35
4."Amandla" 5:16
5."The Senate/Me and You"J. McCreary11:47
6."Wrinkle"
  • Davis
  • E. Davis
  • Hall
  • Giles
  • Linsey
6:50
7."Portia"Miller7:47
Total length:53:57 1:58:00
Disc seventeen: July 20, 1990
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Perfect Way"
  • Gartside
  • Gamson
6:00
2."New Blues" 8:31
3.UntitledMiller10:44
4."The Senate/Me and You"J. McCreary10:51
5."In the Night"3:15
6."Human Nature"
  • Porcaro
  • Bettis
12:48
7."Time after Time"
  • Lauper
  • Hyman
9:13
Total length:1:01:22
Disc eighteen: July 20, 1990
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Wrinkle"
  • Davis
  • E. Davis
  • Hall
  • Giles
  • Linsey
8:10
2."Tutu"Miller13:31
3."Don't Stop Me Now"
  • Lukather
  • Paitch
11:22
4."Carnival Time"Larsen13:38
Total length:46:41 1:48:03
Disc nineteen: July 8, 1991
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Introduction"1:22
2."Boplicity"3:40
3."Springsville" (with introduction)John Carisi3:42
4."The Maids of Cadiz"Leo Delibes3:36
5."The Duke"Dave Brubeck4:00
6."My Ship"4:10
7."Miles Ahead"
  • Davis
  • G. Evans
3:38
8."Blues for Pablo"G. Evans6:00
9."Introduction"Quincy Jones0:27
10."Gone"G. Evans4:10
11."Gone, Gone, Gone"1:47
12."Summertime"
  • Gershwin
  • Gershwin
  • Heyward
2:54
13."Here Come de Honey Man"
  • Heyward
  • Gershwin
  • Gershwin
3:40
14."The Pan Piper"G. Evans1:40
15."Solea"G. Evans11:37
Total length:56:23 56:23
Disc twenty: July 17, 1991
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Perfect Way"
  • Gartside
  • Gamson
5:34
2."New Blues" 15:37
3."Hannibal"Miller17:41
4."Human Nature"
  • Porcaro
  • Bettis
16:57
5."Time after Time"
  • Lauper
  • Hyman
9:47
6."Wrinkle"
  • Davis
  • E. Davis
  • Hall
  • Giles
  • Linsey
4:22
Total length:1:09:58 1:09:58 19:00:42

References

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  1. ^ Jurek, Thom (2011). "The Complete Miles Davis at Montreux 1973-1991 - Miles Davis | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 8 August 2011.
  2. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 353. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
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