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The Cellar Door Sessions 1970 is a boxed live album released in 2005. It compiles six of ten sets that were performed over four December nights in 1970 at the D. C. nightclub the Cellar Door. Despite similar formatting, it is not a part of the Miles Davis Series of box sets.
The sextet on The Cellar Door ‘s bandstand – Davis, saxophonist Gary Bartz, Keith Jarret (playing electric organ and electric piano), Motown bassist Michael Henderson, drummer Jack DeJohnette, and percussionist Airto Moreira – is a sheer marvel of kinetic energy.
20 de dic. de 2005 · For devotees of Miles Davis's so-called "electric period," the full release of the music recorded live in December 1970 at the Washington, DC club The Cellar Door has long been something of a holy grail.
Miles Davi - The Cellar Door Sessions 1970 (Box Set) Friday, February 3, 2006. Sony/BMG|093614|****Miles Davis (t), Gary Bartz (as, ss), Keith Jarrett (el p, org), Michael Henderson (b), John McLaughlin (g), Jack DeJohnette (d) and Airto Moreira (perc, CDs 2, 6 only).
23 de mar. de 2006 · By these shows in December the lineup featured Gary Bartz (alto), Keith Jarrett (electric keys), Michael Henderson (electric bass), Jack DeJohnette (drums), Airto Moreira (percussion for most of the sets), and guest John McLaughlin for the last two discs.
18 de dic. de 2005 · Jack DeJohnette and Michael Henderson supply a pop/rock drum backbeat and thundering bass foundation that lets the band's front line groove all night long. With extended pieces and few breaks between numbers, the Davis band proves inexhaustible.
Well, here it is at last, 35-years later but worth the long wait: six discs of embryonic Jazz-Funk fusion, "on the edge and off the rails", according to bass guitarist Michael Henderson. The box compiles six of eight complete, uncut sets from the eponymous Georgetown jazz club, closing out a watershed year for Davis.
