StLJN Saturday at the Movies: Miles Davis, electric and acoustic

Compiling all those Miles Davis-related links for the last post got me thinking that it's been a while since we've had any Miles Davis clips for the Saturday video feature. And so, up top is a performance in three parts from the 1973 Montreux Jazz Festival, featuring many of the same musicians who appear on Miles' On The Corner CD. Specifically, that would be Davis on trumpet and organ, Dave Liebman on saxophones and flute, Reggie Lucas and Pete Cosey on guitars, Michael Henderson on bass, Al Foster on drums and Mtume on percussion.

For those who want more, or who maybe don't dig Miles' electric period so much, at the bottom of this post there's a bonus clip of a 1967 performance of "Walkin'" recorded for German television. This is all acoustic, with the classic mid-Sixties quintet lineup of Miles, Wayne Shorter (tenor sax), Herbie Hancock (piano), Ron Carter (bass) and Tony Williams (drums).