Hi folks

lots of rumours through the years about Prince and the late Miles Davis jamming together in the '80's... Does anybody know if anything ever really happened, and if it's ever been committed to (unreleased) record, e.g. is the Crucial bootleg authentic?

Thanks!

Ivanelli, yes, a newby

ivanelli said:

The Crucial bootleg has ONLY one track that has a collaboration with Prince & Miles Davis and thats CAN I PLAY WITH YOU. Besides that, he did work with Miles Davis & Chaka Khan on STICKY WICKED. Miles and Prince did send each other tracks to work on, but nothing ever sold came out. Prince never sat in the same studio when working on CAN I PLAY WITH YOU, they just kept sending each other tapes back and forth. Prince did give Miles a bunch of tracks from the unreleased Madhouse 24 album. Miles did play some tracks from that album LIVE, in fact they have been bootlegged and released as such. There was ONE OFFICIAL release that had Miles Davis playing a live version of MOVIE STAR which I have. No credit was given to Prince on the live album.

And of course he played live with Prince on stage for all of a minute or so at the 87 New Year party at Paisley Park. jamming on It's Gonna Be a Beautiful Night.

Can I Play With U? and A Couple Of Miles from December 1985. Eric Leeds got Prince into Miles Davis music. March 1987 Prince met Miles Davis and had dinner with Sheila E and John L. Nelson (Prince's dad). Prince said in a Interview with Rock & Folk magazine 1997 "These tapes with Miles belong to me and I will put them out when I feel the time is right. All I can tell U is that nobody has ever heard those tracks before.Fans shouldnt listen to bootlegs. Miles was very funny. one day after a concert he asked me to come and meet him in his dressing room and there he was completely NAKED. I said "Hey, not for me! I think I'll wait outside." He loved making people uncomfortable.He would called me in the middle of the night and would eat on the phone not saying a word, I knew it was him".

All I can say is see the Omnibus documentary. It shows P jamming with Miles and it is off the scale and is a classic moment.

That Miles way a silly man
answering the door naked and all

YIKES! Miles put on some drawers!

rudeboynpg said:

I love that!!

OdysseyMiles said:

...glad 2 kNOW someBody got him Back on that late nite phonecall tripp...
from the interviews with Miles & the word around musicians who would know the story was Prince kept trying 2 do a project on 'remote', sending emails, tapes, etc. & Miles coming from the school of True music wasn't feelin' it...seems Miles wanted 2 do like all the greats=get 2gether n the studio & C what happens...it would seem Prince never got ready 4 a collaboration like that & the moment has Been lost 2 our imagination...gotta get that Omnibus documentary 4 my collection having glimpsed only Briefly...

theoriginalQueenB said:

That's a shame. I prefer to do it Miles' way as well. Just get together and play.

rudedog said:

wish I'd known that awesome fact last year so I could have thrown it in my jazz teacher's face for laughing at me when I said Prince was a musical genius