Miles Davis - My Funny Valentine
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Music CD Cover Artist: Miles Davis Edition: Music CD Format: Live CD Release Date: 2005-02-01 Music Label: Sony Soundtracks:
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Free Music Notes for My Funny Valentine Album
Free Music Review: What jazz is all about
Hit: 5 Stars
In 1964, Miles brought his quintet, with George Coleman, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, and Tony Williams, to give a concert as a Civil Rights benefit. The gig was unpaid and some of the band members threatened to leave when they found out, but Miles pulled them back together and they went out on stage to play. This album documents half of the material yielded by the concert, the other half being released on "Four & More."
The price of the CD is more than worth it for one tune, a fifteen minute version of "My Funny Valentine" which is the quintessential jazz performance. It begins with a beautiful piano introduction with Miles coming in and stating the melody (sort of) in a very rubato duet with Hancock. Eventually the band comes in and the groove establishes itself and peaks with an amazing chromatic trumpet run. The band just explodes. Coleman takes a lengthy but very very pretty saxophone solo (he was never as inventive as his replacement, Wayne Shorter, but he acquits himself well here) before Herbie waxes a GORGEOUS improvisation with only Carter behind him most of the way. I have a transcription of said solo and I am amazed that anyone could even write that, let alone make it up on the spot. Miles comes back in with the melody at the bridge and the tune ends quietly, the close of a magnificent melodic journey filled with amazing interplay and near-telepathy between the band members. This is what jazz is all about, creating spontaneous beauty that has never existed before and never will the same way again. Of course, we have the record to play it over and over.
The rest of the album follows in more or less the same mold: extended standard performances that are beautiful and top quality, though none of them quite reach the poignancy and power of the title track. The way the material was divided between the two albums is a little strange in that most of the medium tempo material is here while the faster material is on "Four & More," so it can get a little repetitious listening to "My Funny Valentine," "All of You," and "Stella by Starlight" all in a row, with little variation of tempo and approach. My suggestion? Either listen to the tunes one at a time or buy this album and "Four & More" and shuffle them...just a thought.