Live-Evil

Infobox Album |
Name = Live-Evil
Type = Album
Artist = Miles Davis


Released = November 17, 1971
Recorded = February 6, 1970, June 3, 1970, June 4, 1970 & December 19, 1970
Genre = Jazz fusion
Length = 1:41:39
Label = Columbia/Legacy
Producer = Teo Macero
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:dzfyxqygld0e~T1 link]
*Pitchfork (9.9/10) [http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/16891-live-evil link]
*"Rolling Stone" (favorable) [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/milesdavis/albums/album/111188/review/6068336/liveevil link]
Last album = Bitches Brew
(1970)
This album = Live Evil
(1971)
Next album = A Tribute to Jack Johnson
(1971)
Misc = Extra album cover 2
Upper caption = Live-Evil
Type = Album

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Lower caption = Back cover. :"There is also a Black Sabbath album called" Live Evil".""Live-Evil" is an album by Miles Davis, part of which was recorded live at The Cellar Door on December 19, 1970, and part of which was recorded in Columbia's Studio B, with different personnel on February 6, June 3, 4, 1970. Though all compositions were originally credited to Miles Davis, the studio recordings "Little Church" ("Igrejinha") and "Nem Um Talvez" ("Not Even a Maybe") are by Brazilian composer and multi-instrumentalist Hermeto Pascoal, who also played with the Davis band for his tunes.Davis had originally intended the album to be a spiritual successor to "Bitches Brew", but this idea was abandoned when it became obvious that "Live-Evil" was "something completely different. [Davis, Miles. "Miles: The Autobiography." ISBN 0634006827 ]

Mission: Music

The end of Innamorata appears to consist of a tape edit, terminating the band's performance, and introducing a segue of the band jamming. Then, appears Conrad Roberts:

"Inamorata, mission: music, masculinity, master of the art... music. Who is this music that which description may never justify? Can the ocean be described? Fathomless music, body of all that is, lived everlastingly... Man initiate inamorata, your music are tomorrow's unknown known life. I love tomorrow..."

Musician lineup on "Cellar Door segments"

* Trumpet: Miles Davis
* Saxophone: Gary Bartz
* Guitar: John McLaughlin
* Keyboard: Keith Jarrett
* Bass: Michael Henderson
* Drums: Jack DeJohnette
* Percussion: Airto Moreira

*Cellar Door Segments, December 19, 1970: Sivad (a blend of "Directions," a studio fragment of "Honky Tonk," and a live recording of "Honky Tonk"), What I Say, Funky Tonk, Inamorata and Narration by Conrad Roberts.

Cover artwork

The album cover was illustrated by artist Mati Klarwein. Klarwein had painted the front cover independently of Davis, but the back cover was painted with a suggestion from Davis:

"I was doing the picture of the pregnant woman for the cover and the day I finished, Miles called me up and said, 'I want a picture of life on one side and evil on the other.' And all he mentioned was a toad. Then next to me was a copy of "Time Magazine" which had J. Edgar Hoover on the cover, and he just looked like a toad. I told Miles I found the toad." [Szwed, John. "So What: the Life of Miles Davis", p. 319]

Track listing

ide one (25:20)

1. "Sivad" (15:13) Recorded December 19, 1970 at The Cellar Door, Washington, DC & May 19, 1970 at Columbia Studio C, New York, NY

ide four (26:29)

1. "Inamorata and Narration by Conrad Roberts" (26:29) Recorded December 19, 1970 at The Cellar Door, Washington, DC

"Note: The Cellar Door Sessions 1970 box set uses the titles "Improvisation #4" (for Keith Jarrett's keyboard intro) and "Inamorta" instead of "Funky Tonk". In the Source column of the tables above, the title "Funky Tonk" is used."

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