I put down the thing I loved most in life – my music – until I could pull it all back together again.” from Miles: The AutobiographyĪs his health continued to deteriorate and drug dependency led to canceled tours, missed dates, and uneven gigs, Miles Davis began his retreat from the stage in the summer of 1975. ![]() I was beginning to see pity in people’s eyes when they looked at me and I hadn’t seen that since I was a junkie. ![]() ![]() I knew that I needed a rest and so I took one. I didn’t have anything else to say musically. “I was spritually tired of all the bullshit I had been going through for all those long years. When Miles canceled the date last-minute due to ill health, the concert promoter impounded the band’s gear, cauterizing the electric era and kick-starting the trumpeter’s period of seclusion that would last through the end of the decade. While Miles would perform his final concert of the 1970s in Central Park on September 5 – a tape of which is yet to surface – at least one subsequent gig in Miami had been booked. It concludes here at Lincoln Center on Jwith a tape recorded on stage by guitarist Pete Cosey. The wealth of documentation chronicling Miles Davis’ electric period begins with an 85-minute audience reel captured at a small club in Rochester, NY on February 25, 1969.
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