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Miles Ahead session details

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June 27, 1986 (10 items; TT = 72:26)
Expo Theatre, Vancouver British Columbia (Canada)
Audience recording (unkn)

Miles Davis (tpt, synth); Wynton Marsalis (tpt); Bob Berg (ss, ts, synth); Robben Ford (g); Adam Holzman (synth); Robert Irving III (synth); Felton Crews (el-b); Vincent Wilburn Jr. (d); Steve Thornton (perc)

1 One Phone Call - Street Scenes (M. Davis) 1:17

Berg out
2 Speak (M. Davis) 8:56
3 New Blues [Star People] (E. Davis) 5:26

Berg out
4 Maze (M. Davis) 8:18
5 Human Nature (S. Porcaro-J. Bettis) 7:36
6 Portia (M. Miller) 7:46
7 Splatch (M. Miller) 13:46
8 Time After Time (C. Lauper-R. Hyman) 9:09

Berg on synth only
9 Carnival Time (N. Larsen) 3:37
10 Tutu (M. Miller) 6:35


At the concert Wynton Marsalis came on stage (uninvited); he is the second tpt heard for 30 seconds at the end of "New Blues" (see Miles Davis autobiography, p. 374).

The Davis group embarked on a short U.S./Canada tour in mid-June:

June 12: Celebrity Theatre, Phoenix AZ
June 13: Humphrey's by the Bay, San Diego CA
June 14: Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles CA
June 15: The Meadowlands, East Rutherford NJ
June 20: Academy of Music, Philadelphia PA
June 21: Avery Fisher Hall, New York NY (two concerts)
June 22: Great Woods Center for Performing Arts, Mansfield MA
June ??: unknown venue, Chicago IL
June ??: National Arts Centre, Ottawa, Ontario
June 27: Expo Theatre, Vancouver, British Columbia
June 29: unknown venue, Saratoga Springs NY

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