Out now. Info from https://www.amazon.co.uk/...mp;sr=1-10

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Following the successful release of the 40th Anniversary Editions of Miles Davis’s Bitches Brew comes a collection of nine rare live performances recorded at the Newport Jazz Festival, nine months before the original release of Bitches Brew, and at the Isle Of Wight Festival four months after release. Three of the tracks featured on the album are previously unreleased.
Bitches Brew Live offers three previously unissued tracks recorded July 5, 1969 at Newport Jazz Festival--including the first ever professionally-recorded live version of "Miles Runs The Voodoo Down" and the first known recording of the revamped electric version of "Sanctuary"--just over a month before Miles went into the studio to record what would become his fastest selling album of all time, Bitches Brew. Fast-forward one year to August 1970 at the Isle of Wight Festival where Miles plays with a much more electric, rock-oriented sound in front of 600,000 people!
This incredible full set includes the title track "Bitches Brew" and "Spanish Key" played by Davis’s remarkable all-star group captured live at the peak of its powers--Gary Bartz (alto sax, soprano sax), Chick Corea (electric piano), Keith Jarrett (organ), Dave Holland (bass), Jack DeJohnette (drums), Airto Moreira (percussion).
Author Michael Azerrad’s original liner notes incorporate new interviews with legendary Newport Festival founder George Wein, and filmmaker Murray Lerner, who captured one of the most spectacular music festivals in history on film in Message to Love: Isle of Wight Festival.

i was listening to this yesterday. it's pretty good stuff. i wish they would release more bitches brew sessions. at least we got the bootlegs of the other studio sessions

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unique said:

i was listening to this yesterday. it's pretty good stuff. i wish they would release more bitches brew sessions. at least we got the bootlegs of the other studio sessions

I thought they were on the box set.

^^ Is that the complete Bitches Brew set?

Ow man fantastic I need to get this ASAP

TheDigitalGardener said:

^^ Is that the complete Bitches Brew set?

Yes, it was released in 1998 and called The Complete Bitches Brew Sessions. It's official, not a bootleg.

MickyDolenz said:

unique said:

i was listening to this yesterday. it's pretty good stuff. i wish they would release more bitches brew sessions. at least we got the bootlegs of the other studio sessions

I thought they were on the box set.

no, they aren't. it's called the complete bitches brew sessions, but it doesn't have the complete sessions on it

i have that and most of the other miles box sets. there's loads of extra unreleased stuff. some circulates in great quality

MickyDolenz said:

TheDigitalGardener said:

^^ Is that the complete Bitches Brew set?

Yes, it was released in 1998 and called The Complete Bitches Brew Sessions. It's official, not a bootleg.

Thank you.

TheDigitalGardener said:

MickyDolenz said:

Yes, it was released in 1998 and called The Complete Bitches Brew Sessions. It's official, not a bootleg.

Thank you.

The complete On The Corner was released as well

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A pure funk classic. Like Signs O' The Times I was indifferent to it upon first listen, but everytime I gave it a chance I liked what I heard until I reached the point of obsession.

The complete In A Silent Way sessions set was released too while we're on the subject.

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Harlepolis said:

TheDigitalGardener said:

Thank you.

The complete On The Corner was released as well

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A pure funk classic. Like Signs O' The Times I was indifferent to it upon first listen, but everytime I gave it a chance I liked what I heard until I reached the point of obsession.

The complete In A Silent Way sessions set was released too while we're on the subject.

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The Complete On The Corner looks very nice, thank you for the heads up.

Mmm, just did a search for this (amazon/ebay), seems it is long OOP, and is now hugely expensive, nice item though, great album.

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^^ Just found a FLAC download, thanks again.

the thing about most of the miles "complete sessions" sets is they aren't the complete sessions, and they usually include stuff on other officially released albums before and after the album in question. they are more like the "miles 67-69 official studio albums and a few other bits of rare and unreleased stuff" for example

unique said:

the thing about most of the miles "complete sessions" sets is they aren't the complete sessions, and they usually include stuff on other officially released albums before and after the album in question. they are more like the "miles 67-69 official studio albums and a few other bits of rare and unreleased stuff" for example

That may be, but for people like me who do not have alot of this stuff, and who are more recent listeners to jazz, these collections look like a great introduction to recordings beyond the standard albums.

TheDigitalGardener said:

unique said:

the thing about most of the miles "complete sessions" sets is they aren't the complete sessions, and they usually include stuff on other officially released albums before and after the album in question. they are more like the "miles 67-69 official studio albums and a few other bits of rare and unreleased stuff" for example

That may be, but for people like me who do not have alot of this stuff, and who are more recent listeners to jazz, these collections look like a great introduction to recordings beyond the standard albums.

they are great introductions, but the titles mislead other fans into thinking they are getting something else. most of the box sets contains stuff most fans already have. you buy thinking you are getting a load of stuff from one album and find most of the extra stuff is from other albums from around the same period that you already own

they are nicely compiled and packaged, but most were pretty pricey. the other thing is they usually don't have the normal albums in the normal order, so you can't sell the normal albums and just keep the box sets as they don't have the full albums in order