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Tonight's Selection from the Archives

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Too bad there's no video of this, but they just weren't making all that many videos in '64.
Awesome fucking band.

Miles
Herbie Hancock
George Coleman
Tony Williams
Ron Carter

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great era for Miles. that proto quintet, Coleman and then Wayne Shorter, was a mighty ensemble.

i'm also a big fan of the Wayne Shorter LP Speak No Evil in that same ilk/time period.
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Yeah Wayne Shorter was (and is still) amazing...an incredible volume and variety of work.

Tony Williams was only 17 when he joined Miles' quintet, 19 I guess then 'Four & More' came out. The kid sounds like he'd been playing for 30 years.

When I saw Return to Forever IV this summer I was sitting about the 12th row, slightly right of the the stage. Lenny White's drum kit was set up at the front of the stage, facing center, almost right in front of where I was sitting. I was basically looking over his left shoulder. Watching a drummer like that from the angle I had was a real experience. Dude was playing all sorts of very difficult stuff, completely in sync with everybody and their improvisations and Chick Corea's complex arrangements, and he looked like he was hardly making an effort.
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