Stadthalle, Vienna 1973 contains very rare recordings of the Miles Davis Septet with which he toured Europe in 1973 as part of the Newport Jazz Festival In Europe. With a line-up that would later develop as the top of the jazz funk, Davis connects jazz, rock and funk in one of his most experimental periods. It will come as no surprise that this music was then (and still is) not for everyone after
… seeing these images. Davis, saxophonist Dave Liebman and guitarist Reggie Lucas solo imperturbably over what seems like a cacophony of rhythm, but in the meantime there is structure in this chaos. The concert proceeds as a smooth whole. Often one of the soloists is still improvising in one song, while the rhythm section starts the next piece. The sound quality is not quite what it should be,more
