I’m loving the promo video that Sony made to support the Miles Davis On The Corner box set (the 8th, and last, in an incredible series of high-end sets designed for Miles completists). The 12 minute video, which Sony has provided to Amazon to help sell the $140 set, contains footage from Miles’s On The Corner band playing in Vienna in 1973, as well as a recent interview with the core members of that band (bassist Michael Henderson, guitarist Pete Cosey and alto sax player Dave Liebman) in Miles’s former backyard on W.77th in NYC!

Watch it here

Although Bitches Brew is considered the real departure (from traditional jazz) album, On The Corner is the record that I continue to go back to. What Miles was doing 35 years ago would not seem out of place at all if it was released today. Truly a timeless record.

A lot of the credit has to go to producer Teo Macero, who edited and compiled On The Corner. We interviewed Teo in 2004. Watch him talk about his experience working with Miles here.

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