Miles Davis/My Funny Valentine Miles Davis In Concert #D MOFI Ltd Ed (Sealed)

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Serial #869! 

  Numbered Limited Edition 180g LP from Mobile   Fidelity!
 
  Historic Recording Captures Elegant Ballads Performed at February 1964 Concert.   Audiophile Reference-Standard Sound: Album Boasts Lifelike Tones, Balances,   Images, and Ambience. Davis Taps Divine Inspiration: Compositions Marked by Deep   Emotions, Spontaneous Brilliance, Sensitive Beauty, and Sublime Poignancy.
 
  Miles Davis’ My Funny Valentine marks several historic turning points. For   Davis, the live album represents the final time on record he’d perform standards   rather than original compositions. It also stands as one of the last documents   made by the same band that created Seven Steps of Heaven. As such, the work   teems with bebop melodicism yet steers clear of Davis’ oft-controversial   avant-garde leanings. Most significantly, however, the set captures the ballads   performed at a benefit concert from New York’s then-new Philharmonic Hall just   months after President Kennedy’s assassination. Tapping into a seemingly divine   inspiration, Davis never sounded so elegant or poetic.
 
  Boasting gorgeous sound pressed on 180g LP at RTI, Mobile Fidelity’s choice   reissue of the trumpeter’s scintillating work bookends the label’s release of   Four & More from the same show and features similar enhancements relating to   depth, presence, dynamics, clarity, and ambience. Presented in   reference-standard fidelity, the record boasts balances, tonalities, and   airiness that duplicate the experience of witnessing live jazz in an   acoustically ideal hall. The images of each individual instrument, the decay of   the notes, the inner reaches of the piano, and symmetry of the horns—all are   rendered with palpable detail. This is the very definition of   reach-out-and-touch-it realism.
 
  Staged as a benefit to support voter registration in the South, the February   concert came amidst the height of the Civil Rights movement, a cause dear to   Davis’ heart. Yet unforeseen circumstances raised the stakes. Having professed   his admiration for Kennedy years prior, Davis appears to approach the   compositions on My Funny Valentine (and, in particular, the title track) as   homage to the fallen leader, a collective soliloquy comprised of pieces shot   through with deeply emotional passages, spontaneous brilliance, sensitive   beauty, and sublime poignancy. Elegiac moods permeate the performances; Davis   and his Harmon mute paint with intricate brushstrokes.
 
  Pianist Herbie Hancock, bassist Ron Carter, and drummer Tony Williams are their   leader’s equal, and would continue with Davis until later in the decade, helping   form what’s now known as the “second great quintet.” But the secret weapon on   both My Funny Valentine and its sister Four & More arrives in the form of tenor   saxophonist George Coleman, whom jazz experts Brian Morton and Richard Cook deem   “one of the unsung heroes of modern jazz.” His lines are subtle and   sophisticated, straight-ahead but capable of unanticipated direction, and here,   he comes into his own. As does the entire band.
 
  Indeed, the combination of introspective chemistry, lyrical reach, and   telepathic communication demonstrated by the quintet on My Funny Valentine   arguably exceeds that on any of Davis’ myriad other live efforts. One listen   confirms something special transpiring, and on this Mobile Fidelity reissue,   those properties are rendered in a manner that’s as transparent to the source as   humanly possible. Do not miss this.
 
  Features:
  • Numbered, Limited Edition
  • Mastering by Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab
  • Specially Plated & Pressed on 180 grams of High Definition Vinyl
  • Special Static Free - Dust Free Inner Sleeve
  • Heavy Duty Protective Packaging
  • Pressed at RTI
 
  Musicians:
  Miles Davis, trumpet
  George Coleman, tenor saxophone
  Ron Carter, bass
  Tony Williams, drums
  Herbie Hancock, piano
 
  Selections:
  Side 1:
  1. My Funny Valentine
  2. All Of You
  Side 2:
  3. Stella By Starlight
  4. All Blues
  5. I Thought About You