We Want Miles is a double album recorded by jazz trumpeter Miles Davis in 1981, produced by Teo Macero and released by Columbia Records in 1982. The album combines recordings from the first live appearances by Davis in more than five years, at Boston's Kix Club, on June 27, 1981. Other tracks were recorded at Avery Fisher Hall, New York, on July 5, and in Tokyo, October 4 of that year.
Background
Miles Davis had returned to the studio in 1980, after a long hiatus during which he left the trumpet alone and focused on woman and cocaine, according to his autobiography. Changing some personnel while recording The Man with the Horn, he formed a live band consisting of Mike Stern on guitar (replacing Barry Finnerty), Al Foster on drums, Mino Cinelu on percussion (he had replaced Sammy Figueroa), Bill Evans on soprano, and Marcus Miller on bass. By this time it had been six years since he played live.
Davis secured a two-performance gig on July 2, 1981, at the Kool Jazz Festival (the name given to the old Newport Jazz Festival while it was held in New York City, at Avery Fisher Hall), but first played four shows at Kix, a club in Boston. Recordings from these shows, with a recording from an October date in Japan, were used to compile We Want Miles. It was for the shows at Kix, 26–29 June, that he hired Cinelu, whom he saw play percussion at a New York club (Cinelu having just fortuitously switched from drums—Davis was looking for a percussionist, not a drummer). After the show Davis put his hand on Cinelu's arm and said, "You're a motherfucker". Cinelu didn't recognize Davis, who was in poor health, but when he was told who it was, returned to Davis who asked for his number. Soon after Davis called him, saying "come to the studio, you motherfucker". He attended an impromptu jam session at Davis's apartment with Mike Stern, playing with a cymbal and some drums, and was hired.
Jean Pierre (2022 Remaster) (Live at Shinjuku Nishi-Guchi Hiroba, Tokyo, Japan - Oct. 1981 -...
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Jean Pierre (2022 Remaster) (Live at Shinjuku Nishi-Guchi Hiroba, Tokyo, Japan - Oct. 1981 - version 1) · Miles Davis
We Want Miles
℗ 1982 Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Released on: 1982-05-01
Composer, Lyricist: Miles Davis
Producer: Teo Macero
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We Want Miles
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Miles Davis - Jean Pierre
We Want Miles (1982)
The melody is based on a French lullaby, 'Do do l'enfant do.' Miles heard Francis Taylor's son Jean Pierre humming it.
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Marcus Miller w/ Miles Davis "Fat Time" Live 1982
Live at the Hammersmith Odeon, London 1982. Miles Davis (trumpet), Marcus Miller (bass), Mike Stern (guitar), Bill Evans (sax), Al Foster (drums) and Mino Cinelu (percussion). This is the "We Want Miles" band.
published: 24 Aug 2009
1982 Miles Davis, Mike Stern, Marcus Miller, Al Foster, Bill Evans, Mino Cinelu (1)
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Marcus Miller w/ Miles Davis "Back Seat Betty" Live 1982
Live at the Hammersmith Odeon, London 1982. Miles Davis (trumpet), Marcus Miller (bass), Mike Stern (guitar), Bill Evans (sax), Al Foster (drums) and Mino Cinelu (percussion). This is the "We Want Miles" band.
published: 10 Sep 2009
My Man's Gone Now (2022 Remaster) (Live at the Kix Club, Boston, MA - June 1981)
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My Man's Gone Now (2022 Remaster) (Live at the Kix Club, Boston, MA - June 1981) · Miles Davis
We Want Miles
℗ 1982 Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Released on: 1982-05-01
Composer, Lyricist: George Gershwin
Producer: Teo Macero
Composer, Lyricist: Dubose Heyward
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published: 15 Sep 2022
Marcus Miller pt. 1 "Jean Pierre" w/ Miles Davis live '82
Part 1 of 3. Live at the Hammersmith Odeon, London 1982. Miles Davis (trumpet), Marcus Miller (bass), Mike Stern (guitar), Bill Evans (sax, flute), Al Foster (drums) and Mino Cinelu (percussion). This is the "We Want Miles" band. See Marcus Miller's solo from part 3 also available on this channel.
published: 18 Feb 2011
25th Grammy Awards : Best Jazz Instrumental : We Want Miles - Miles Davis
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Fat Time (2022 Remaster)
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Fat Time (2022 Remaster) · Miles Davis
The Man With The Horn
℗ 1981 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Released on: 1981-07-01
Guitar: Mike Stern
Composer, Lyricist: Miles Davis
Producer: Teo Macero
Percussion: Sammy Figueroa
Executive Producer: George Butler
Drums: Al Foster
Engineer: Don Puluse
Assistant Engineer: Nancy Byers
Assistant Engineer: Ted Brosnan
Bass: Marcus Miller
Mastering Engineer: Joe Gastwirt
Soprano Saxophone: Bill Evans
Mixing Engineer: Don Puluse
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Jean Pierre (2022 Remaster) (Live at Shinjuku Nishi-Guchi Hiroba, Tokyo, Japan - Oct. 1981 - version 1) · Miles Davis
W...
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Jean Pierre (2022 Remaster) (Live at Shinjuku Nishi-Guchi Hiroba, Tokyo, Japan - Oct. 1981 - version 1) · Miles Davis
We Want Miles
℗ 1982 Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Released on: 1982-05-01
Composer, Lyricist: Miles Davis
Producer: Teo Macero
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Jean Pierre (2022 Remaster) (Live at Shinjuku Nishi-Guchi Hiroba, Tokyo, Japan - Oct. 1981 - version 1) · Miles Davis
We Want Miles
℗ 1982 Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Released on: 1982-05-01
Composer, Lyricist: Miles Davis
Producer: Teo Macero
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Live at the Hammersmith Odeon, London 1982. Miles Davis (trumpet), Marcus Miller (bass), Mike Stern (guitar), Bill Evans (sax), Al Foster (drums) and Mino Cinel...
Live at the Hammersmith Odeon, London 1982. Miles Davis (trumpet), Marcus Miller (bass), Mike Stern (guitar), Bill Evans (sax), Al Foster (drums) and Mino Cinelu (percussion). This is the "We Want Miles" band.
Live at the Hammersmith Odeon, London 1982. Miles Davis (trumpet), Marcus Miller (bass), Mike Stern (guitar), Bill Evans (sax), Al Foster (drums) and Mino Cinelu (percussion). This is the "We Want Miles" band.
Live at the Hammersmith Odeon, London 1982. Miles Davis (trumpet), Marcus Miller (bass), Mike Stern (guitar), Bill Evans (sax), Al Foster (drums) and Mino Cinel...
Live at the Hammersmith Odeon, London 1982. Miles Davis (trumpet), Marcus Miller (bass), Mike Stern (guitar), Bill Evans (sax), Al Foster (drums) and Mino Cinelu (percussion). This is the "We Want Miles" band.
Live at the Hammersmith Odeon, London 1982. Miles Davis (trumpet), Marcus Miller (bass), Mike Stern (guitar), Bill Evans (sax), Al Foster (drums) and Mino Cinelu (percussion). This is the "We Want Miles" band.
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My Man's Gone Now (2022 Remaster) (Live at the Kix Club, Boston, MA - June 1981) · Miles Davis
We Want Miles
℗ 1982 Co...
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My Man's Gone Now (2022 Remaster) (Live at the Kix Club, Boston, MA - June 1981) · Miles Davis
We Want Miles
℗ 1982 Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Released on: 1982-05-01
Composer, Lyricist: George Gershwin
Producer: Teo Macero
Composer, Lyricist: Dubose Heyward
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My Man's Gone Now (2022 Remaster) (Live at the Kix Club, Boston, MA - June 1981) · Miles Davis
We Want Miles
℗ 1982 Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Released on: 1982-05-01
Composer, Lyricist: George Gershwin
Producer: Teo Macero
Composer, Lyricist: Dubose Heyward
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Part 1 of 3. Live at the Hammersmith Odeon, London 1982. Miles Davis (trumpet), Marcus Miller (bass), Mike Stern (guitar), Bill Evans (sax, flute), Al Foster (d...
Part 1 of 3. Live at the Hammersmith Odeon, London 1982. Miles Davis (trumpet), Marcus Miller (bass), Mike Stern (guitar), Bill Evans (sax, flute), Al Foster (drums) and Mino Cinelu (percussion). This is the "We Want Miles" band. See Marcus Miller's solo from part 3 also available on this channel.
Part 1 of 3. Live at the Hammersmith Odeon, London 1982. Miles Davis (trumpet), Marcus Miller (bass), Mike Stern (guitar), Bill Evans (sax, flute), Al Foster (drums) and Mino Cinelu (percussion). This is the "We Want Miles" band. See Marcus Miller's solo from part 3 also available on this channel.
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Fat Time (2022 Remaster) · Miles Davis
The Man With The Horn
℗ 1981 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Released on: 1981-07-01
Gu...
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Fat Time (2022 Remaster) · Miles Davis
The Man With The Horn
℗ 1981 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Released on: 1981-07-01
Guitar: Mike Stern
Composer, Lyricist: Miles Davis
Producer: Teo Macero
Percussion: Sammy Figueroa
Executive Producer: George Butler
Drums: Al Foster
Engineer: Don Puluse
Assistant Engineer: Nancy Byers
Assistant Engineer: Ted Brosnan
Bass: Marcus Miller
Mastering Engineer: Joe Gastwirt
Soprano Saxophone: Bill Evans
Mixing Engineer: Don Puluse
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Fat Time (2022 Remaster) · Miles Davis
The Man With The Horn
℗ 1981 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Released on: 1981-07-01
Guitar: Mike Stern
Composer, Lyricist: Miles Davis
Producer: Teo Macero
Percussion: Sammy Figueroa
Executive Producer: George Butler
Drums: Al Foster
Engineer: Don Puluse
Assistant Engineer: Nancy Byers
Assistant Engineer: Ted Brosnan
Bass: Marcus Miller
Mastering Engineer: Joe Gastwirt
Soprano Saxophone: Bill Evans
Mixing Engineer: Don Puluse
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Jean Pierre (2022 Remaster) (Live at Shinjuku Nishi-Guchi Hiroba, Tokyo, Japan - Oct. 1981 - version 1) · Miles Davis
We Want Miles
℗ 1982 Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Released on: 1982-05-01
Composer, Lyricist: Miles Davis
Producer: Teo Macero
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Live at the Hammersmith Odeon, London 1982. Miles Davis (trumpet), Marcus Miller (bass), Mike Stern (guitar), Bill Evans (sax), Al Foster (drums) and Mino Cinelu (percussion). This is the "We Want Miles" band.
Live at the Hammersmith Odeon, London 1982. Miles Davis (trumpet), Marcus Miller (bass), Mike Stern (guitar), Bill Evans (sax), Al Foster (drums) and Mino Cinelu (percussion). This is the "We Want Miles" band.
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My Man's Gone Now (2022 Remaster) (Live at the Kix Club, Boston, MA - June 1981) · Miles Davis
We Want Miles
℗ 1982 Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Released on: 1982-05-01
Composer, Lyricist: George Gershwin
Producer: Teo Macero
Composer, Lyricist: Dubose Heyward
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Part 1 of 3. Live at the Hammersmith Odeon, London 1982. Miles Davis (trumpet), Marcus Miller (bass), Mike Stern (guitar), Bill Evans (sax, flute), Al Foster (drums) and Mino Cinelu (percussion). This is the "We Want Miles" band. See Marcus Miller's solo from part 3 also available on this channel.
Provided to YouTube by Columbia
Fat Time (2022 Remaster) · Miles Davis
The Man With The Horn
℗ 1981 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Released on: 1981-07-01
Guitar: Mike Stern
Composer, Lyricist: Miles Davis
Producer: Teo Macero
Percussion: Sammy Figueroa
Executive Producer: George Butler
Drums: Al Foster
Engineer: Don Puluse
Assistant Engineer: Nancy Byers
Assistant Engineer: Ted Brosnan
Bass: Marcus Miller
Mastering Engineer: Joe Gastwirt
Soprano Saxophone: Bill Evans
Mixing Engineer: Don Puluse
Auto-generated by YouTube.
We Want Miles is a double album recorded by jazz trumpeter Miles Davis in 1981, produced by Teo Macero and released by Columbia Records in 1982. The album combines recordings from the first live appearances by Davis in more than five years, at Boston's Kix Club, on June 27, 1981. Other tracks were recorded at Avery Fisher Hall, New York, on July 5, and in Tokyo, October 4 of that year.
Background
Miles Davis had returned to the studio in 1980, after a long hiatus during which he left the trumpet alone and focused on woman and cocaine, according to his autobiography. Changing some personnel while recording The Man with the Horn, he formed a live band consisting of Mike Stern on guitar (replacing Barry Finnerty), Al Foster on drums, Mino Cinelu on percussion (he had replaced Sammy Figueroa), Bill Evans on soprano, and Marcus Miller on bass. By this time it had been six years since he played live.
Davis secured a two-performance gig on July 2, 1981, at the Kool Jazz Festival (the name given to the old Newport Jazz Festival while it was held in New York City, at Avery Fisher Hall), but first played four shows at Kix, a club in Boston. Recordings from these shows, with a recording from an October date in Japan, were used to compile We Want Miles. It was for the shows at Kix, 26–29 June, that he hired Cinelu, whom he saw play percussion at a New York club (Cinelu having just fortuitously switched from drums—Davis was looking for a percussionist, not a drummer). After the show Davis put his hand on Cinelu's arm and said, "You're a motherfucker". Cinelu didn't recognize Davis, who was in poor health, but when he was told who it was, returned to Davis who asked for his number. Soon after Davis called him, saying "come to the studio, you motherfucker". He attended an impromptu jam session at Davis's apartment with Mike Stern, playing with a cymbal and some drums, and was hired.
We come Fe make the people dem just rock up Now we come Fe mash it inna different style Yer you know we come kill the tune just like a ninja Busting up the place and turn the people dem wild This is the sound of the band call Skindred Calling every nation Fe jump as one Come together in the pit and turn crazy Then we grab the dollars from promoters and we run, Co Lord have mercy me say Now we come in ah de place and we tear things up We rock out the stage and the hwole place chock Promoter and his idrin dem ah tan up and ah look Every ting in addy place get mash up and broke This is what the people dem ah want and we ah cook The DJ starts to rock and the tune get stuck The music his the crowd like a ten-ton truck Everybody in the place they lift their hands and shout This is what we want, we want the vibes just sweet and we don't want no negative This is what we want, crowd of people in the place lick a shot be co you know! Rocking in the yard we nor go drop Ghetto youth are running it hot Slamming in the pit we nor go stop Every youth man lick 4 shot Unity is what we need a lot Its like the worlds in a melting pot To the youth we are give nuff props From the bottom we are reaching to the top Condensation it ah run from the walls and the ceiling To the Punk and the Dread this sound is appealing Anytime we come you know we bring a good feeling Lyrics wha we write they got to have meaning No check fee Babylon but hatred we no deal in The way we mash the show we left the youth dem reeling Spot light pon the Dred because the show that we stealing From Brixton town down to New York dem feeling!