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Miles Davis   01/29/1983

Rainbow Music Hall, Denver, CO
Media cd flac data   2 discs
Notes In July '05, rlouk posted this date (612 mb). He commented, "Greetings and salutations fellow MF's, we have here an uncirculated master audience tape from the early days of the 1983 tour. This band was perhaps the funkiest of the decade for Miles yet it could be very bluesy and loose. This concert is a very loose and jamming show, with plenty of band and audience interaction, lots of guitar and, of course, lots of trumpet. This show also showcases Bill Evans on keyboards, if you didn't know better you would think he was keyboard player guesting on sax rather than the opposite. The sound on this show is excellent, very clean, sharp and glitch-free. This is the entire early show played as a continuous set with only Miles coded phrases to signal song transitions. The band is loose and playful and Miles sounds very relaxed and strong. This source tape contains everything I like in an audience tape - loose and lengthy interpretations, lots of jamming, clear sound, audience participation and excellent music. No modifications have been made to the sound other than to splice the tape flips together. You can play it as a continous set with no breaks or fades."

In Dec. '10, plaz_restore further detailed the lineage as "Aiwa stereo mic > Aiwa CS-J1 cassette recorder > (master) Maxell XLII-S cassettes > CD-R > Wavelab > FLAC (level 8)," so I'm assuming it was rlouk's source but with a different transfer. Plus, the show was now cut into 9 tracks (from the original 8) and was 579 mb in size. But the show retained certain pecularities, like the tape flip at 6:13 during U'n'I, so I assume it is from the same source.

The file set I am uploading is the original one with 8 tracks from '05 from rlouk. I changed neither audio nor tracking.

Miles Davis
Rainbow Music Hall
Denver CO
January 29, 1983 - early show

Source: Audience recording > ? > Aiwa CS-J1 cassette recorder > Master analog tape > Unknown standalone burner > CD-R > EAC > WAV > Soundforge (normalized, fade in/out applied, and glitches edited) > CD Wave (tracking) > shntool > FLAC Frontend > FLAC (level 8).

CD 1:
1. Come Get It
2. Star People
3. Speak/That's What Happened
4. U'n'I

CD 2:
5. Hopscotch
6. It Gets Better
7. Star on Cicely
8. Jean-Pierre

Total time = 99:15

Personnel:
Miles Davis - trumpet, keyboards
Bill Evans - alto and soprano saxophones, flute, keyboards
John Scofield - guitar
Mike Stern - guitar
Tom Barney - bass
Al Foster - drums
Mino Cinelu - percussion
Trades Allowed Yes
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