Product Description
RELEASE DATE: August 30th 2024
The 8-LP box set Miles At Newport 1955-1975 – The Bootleg Series
Vol. 4 features of live performances by Miles’ stellar band lineups
from 1955, 1958, 1966, 1967, 1969, 1971, 1973, and 1975, in New-
port, Rhode Island, New York City, Berlin, and Switzerland. From
Miles’ debut performance at NJF in 1955 (a hastily arranged jam
session featuring Thelonious Monk and Gerry Mulligan), to his final
public performance of the ‘70s in 1975, the box set traces the ascen-
dance of Miles’ music as the jazz superstar he has become known to
be.
The full-length concert performances alone of Miles’ famed “Kind
Of Blue” Sextet (with Cannonball Adderley, John Coltrane, Bill Evans,
Paul Chambers, and Jimmy Cobb), and second great quintet in ‘66
and ‘67 (with Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, and Tony
Williams) represent templates that reverberate in jazz and popular
music to this day.
Miles At Newport 1955-1975 – The Bootleg Series Vol. 4 is available as
a deluxe 8LP box set, housed in a lift-off box. The set includes print-
ed innersleeves, a mini poster of Miles, and a 12-page booklet with
extensive liner notes and rare photos.
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July 17, 1955, Newport Jazz Festival
1. Spoken Introductions By Duke Ellington And Gerry Mulligan
2. Hackensack
3. ‘Round Midnight
July 3, 1958, Newport Jazz Festival
1. Straight, No Chaser
2. Fran-Dance
July 4, 1966, Newport Jazz Festival
1. Gingerbread Boy
2. All Blues
July 2, 1967, Newport Jazz Festival
1. Spoken Introduction By Del Shields
2. Gingerbread Boy
3. Footprints
November 1, 1973, Newport Jazz Festival
1. Ife
2. Untitled Original
October 22, 1971, Newport Jazz Festival In Europe
1. Directions
2. What I Say
October 22, 1971, Newport Jazz Festival In Europe
1. Bitches Brew
July 17, 1955, Newport Jazz Festival
1. Now’s The Time
July 3, 1958, Newport Jazz Festival
2. Spoken Introduction By Willis Connover
3. Ah-Leu-Cha
July 3, 1958, Newport Jazz Festival
1. Two Bass Hit
2. Bye Bye Blackbird
3. The Theme
July 4, 1966, Newport Jazz Festival
1. Stella By Starlight
2. R.J.
3. Seven Steps To Heaven
4. The Theme / Closing Announcement by Leonard Feather
July 2, 1967, Newport Jazz Festival
1. ‘Round Midnight
2. So What
3. The Theme / Closing Announcement by Leonard Feather
November 1, 1973, Newport Jazz Festival
1. Tune In 5 / Closing Announcement by Ronnie Scott
July 1, 1975, Newport Jazz Festival
2. Mtume
October 22, 1971, Newport Jazz Festival In Europe
1. Sanctuary
2. It’s About That Time
October 22, 1971, Newport Jazz Festival In Europe
1. Funky Tonk
2. Sanctuary
