| Merci Miles! Live at Vienne | |
| Type: | live |
| Artist: | Miles Davis |
| Cover: | Miles Davis - Merci Miles! Live at Vienne.jpg |
| Released: | June 25, 2021 |
| Recorded: | July 1, 1991 |
| Venue: | Jazz à Vienne, Vienne, France |
| Genre: | Jazz |
| Length: | 80:21 |
| Label: | |
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| Prev Title: | Rubberband |
| Prev Year: | 2019 |
| Next Title: | Turnaround |
| Next Year: | 2023 |
Merci Miles! Live at Vienne is a live album by American jazz trumpeter Miles Davis, released on Rhino and Warner Records in 2021. It was recorded in 1991 at the Jazz à Vienne festival.[1]
The album was released as part of Rhino's celebration of Black Music Month.[2] [3]
The album was recorded at the Théâtre antique de Vienne on July 1, 1991, the opening night of the Jazz à Vienne festival.[4] The set included interpretations of songs by pop musicians Michael Jackson, Cyndi Lauper, and Prince. Davis died less than three months later, making this one of his final live performances.
Reviews for the album have been largely positive. Writing for AllMusic, Thom Jurek noted "While none of this music is revelatory, it is intuitive and energetic," and described Davis's playing as "surprisingly muscular" despite the proximity to his death.[5] Tom Moon considered it a quality late-era performance in Davis's career, writing "Where some late Davis performances tended to wander, this one is all show-biz discipline" in his JazzTimes review.[6] In All About Jazz, Ian Patterson noted problems with the sound quality and mixing, but compared Davis's "brooding, melancholy and quite gorgeous" phrasing positively to his performance on Ascenseur pour l'échafaud.[1]
Credits taken from the album's liner notes.[7]