The Cellar Door Sessions 1970
Box set by
Miles Davis
ReleasedDecember 27, 2005 (2005-12-27)
RecordedDecember 16–19, 1970 (1970-12-16 – 1970-12-19)
VenueThe Cellar Door
Georgetown, Washington, D.C.
Genre
Length5:52:04
LabelColumbia/Legacy
ProducerTeo Macero
Miles Davis live box set chronology
In Person Friday and Saturday Nights at the Blackhawk, Complete
(2003) 		The Cellar Door Sessions 1970
(2005)
Miles Davis live chronology
Miles at the Fillmore – Miles Davis 1970: The Bootleg Series Vol. 3
(1970) 		The Cellar Door Sessions 1970
(1970) 		In Concert
(1972)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Pitchfork9.4/10[2]
Rolling Stone[3]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings [4]

The Cellar Door Sessions 1970 is a boxed live album released in 2005. It compiles six of ten sets that were performed over four December nights in 1970 at the D. C. nightclub the Cellar Door. Despite similar formatting, it is not a part of the Miles Davis Series of box sets.

Significant portions of Davis' Live-Evil were edited and compiled from the music that appears on discs 5 and 6. The sections labelled "Improvisation" into "Imamorata" are most commonly known as "Funky Tonk," but were released on Live-Evil as "Imamorata and Narration by Conrad Roberts."

Live-Evil and this collection are the only official recordings of John McLaughlin's live performances with Miles Davis.[5]

Track listing

Columbia and Legacy – C6K 93614[6]

All tracks are written by Miles Davis unless otherwise noted.

Disc one: Wednesday, December 16 (first set)
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Directions"Josef Zawinul8:55
2."Yesternow" 17:05
3."What I Say" 13:10
4."Improvisation #1"Keith Jarrett4:29
5."Inamorata" 14:00
Total length:57:39
Disc two: Thursday, December 17 (second set)
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."What I Say" 13:33
2."Honky Tonk" 20:00
3."It's About That Time" 14:41
4."Improvisation #2"Jarrett6:39
5."Inamorata" 14:33
6."Sanctuary"Wayne Shorter0:30
Total length:1:09:56
Disc three: Friday, December 18 (second set)
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Directions"Zawinul13:11
2."Honky Tonk" 18:32
3."What I Say" 15:09
Total length:46:52
Disc four: Friday, December 18 (third set)
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Directions"Zawinul11:53
2."Honky Tonk" 17:01
3."What I Say" 14:12
4."Sanctuary"Shorter2:04
5."Improvisation #3"Jarrett5:05
6."Inamorata" 15:14
Total length:1:05:29
Disc five: Saturday, December 19 (second set)
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Directions"Zawinul15:09
2."Honky Tonk" 20:49
3."What I Say" 21:31
Total length:59:29
Disc six: Saturday, December 19 (third set)
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Directions"Zawinul19:05
2."Improvisation #4"Jarrett5:04
3."Inamorata" 18:28
4."Sanctuary"Shorter2:13
5."It's About That Time" 7:49
Total length:52:39

Personnel

Guest musician

References

  1. ^ "The Cellar Door Sessions (AllMusic Review)". AllMusic. Retrieved April 12, 2017.
  2. ^ "The Cellar Door Sessions (Pitchfork Review)". Pitchfork. Retrieved April 12, 2017.
  3. ^ "The Cellar Door Sessions (Rolling Stone Review)". Rolling Stone. Retrieved April 12, 2017.
  4. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 349. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
  5. ^ "The Cellar Door Recordings". miles-beyond.com. Retrieved April 12, 2017.
  6. ^ "The Cellar Door Sessions on Discogs". Discogs. Retrieved April 12, 2017.
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