Miles Davis - Live: What It Is - Montreal 7/7/83 (RSD 2022)

This is a Record Store Day 2022 release.

This double LP release includes one of Miles Davis final great bands including John Scofield on guitar, Bill The Other Bill Evans Evans on saxophones, flute and electric piano, Darryl Jones on bass, Al Foster on drums and percussionist Mino Cinelu. Miles was back in amazing form (incandescent and iridescent as ever as Greg Tate noted), when he mounted the stage at the Theatre St-Denis during the Festival International De Jazz De Montreal in July 1983 and this release is the first time this revelatory performance will be released. It has been lovingly mixed and mastered and will be included on CD and digitally in the next edition of the Miles Davis Bootleg series that focuses on the 1981-1985 period, coming later in the year, but the Record Store Day release would be its exclusive release on vinyl. What It Is includes tracks from that years release Star People, the Marcus Miller tune Hopscotch and th