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Miles Ahead session details

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July 9, 1986 (12 items; TT = 90:13)
Fiera Campionaria, Piazza Amedeo Nazzari, Cagliari (Italy)
Audience recording (unkn)

Miles Davis (tpt, synth); 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) 1:30

Berg out
2 Speak (M. Davis) 11:48
3 New Blues [Star People] (E. Davis) 5:39
4 Maze (M. Davis) 9:36
5 Human Nature (S. Porcaro-J. Bettis) 9:36
6 Portia (inc) (M. Miller) 7:16

Tape split at 7:06
7 Splatch (M. Miller) 15:01
8 Time After Time (C. Lauper-R. Hyman) 8:33

Berg on synth only
9 Carnival Time (N. Larsen) 4:04
10 Tutu (M. Miller) 5:42
11 Burn (R. Irving III-R. Hall) 6:28
12 Tomaas (encore (inc)) (M. Davis-M. Miller) 5:00


3 New Blues
Video: Musica Jazz MUDVD001


The magazine Musica Jazz No. 10 (2007) includes 1:30 of "New Blues" on a DVD (Musica Jazz MUDVD-001).

The Davis group toured Italy, France, Spain, Holland, and Switzerland for four weeks in July:

July 3: unknown venue, Bari, Italy
July 5: Parco della Favorita, Palermo
July 7: Parco della Pellerina, Turin
July 8: Palazzo Civiltà del Lavoro, EUR, Rome
July 9: Fiera Campionaria, Piazza Amedeo Nazzari, Cagliari
July 11: Tuin Paviljoen, Congresgebouw, The Hague
July 13: Jardin des Arènes de Cimiez, Nice
July 15: Jardin des Arènes de Cimiez, Nice
July 16: Jardin des Arènes de Cimiez, Nice
July 17: Casino, Montreux
July 19: Arenes de Nimes, Nimes
July 20: Jardin des Arènes de Cimiez, Nice
July 23 (?): Théâtre Antique, Vienne
July 24: Veledromo Palacio Anoeta, San Sebastian, Spain
July 25: Poble Espanyol, Barcelona
July 27: Parco delle Naiadi, Pescara
July 28: Discoteca Marmellata, Mira, Venice

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