Session details: Columbia 30th Street Studio (June 22, 1967)

Miles Ahead session details

June 22, 1967 (11 items; TT = 33:51)

Columbia 30th Street Studio, New York NY

Commercial for Columbia

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Miles Davis (tpt); Wayne Shorter (ts); Herbie Hancock (p); Ron Carter (b); Tony Williams (d)

1	Hand Jive (take 1 (inc x 2)) (T. Williams)	1:28
	Macero: "CO 92249, take one..." False start (0;24), interrupted by Hancock: "I went back to the place where [undecipherable]" Davis: "Hey Herbie... Herbie..." Hancock: "Hmm?" Davis: "You gotta, you gotta leave out those..." (cut) Short run-through (0:41). Hancock: "[undecipherable] back into it..." Carter: "No. I didn't play it [undecipherable]" Hancock: "The last time you didn't play anything?" Davis: "Hey, play that back, man." Macero: "OK." Davis: "Hey, just the way you were playin', you gotta play all tro..." (cut)
2	Hand Jive (take 2 (inc)) (T. Williams)	1:35
	Incomplete take (1:25), interrupted by Davis: "Play that, Teo. Damn, that starts to sound that..." Hancock: "Yeah." (cut) Davis: "Teo, play it. You wanna hear, anybody wanna hear it? No, that's all right, we'll just keep workin' on it..."
3	Hand Jive (take 3 (inc + rehearsal)) (T. Williams)	2:40
	Macero: "OK, all right. Here we go, three..." False start (0:03). Short run-through (1:39). Davis: "Hey Teo, play that back, some of it..." (cut) Short run-through (0:31), interrupted by Hancock: "I'm not done playin' that [undecipherable]" Davis: "Huh?" Hancock: "I really not, don't even have to fill in. Oh, I know what I'll do... I won't fill in with no booten-dayba-doo, no eighth notes (he plays two notes)" Davis: "No, play... No, no, just play the introduc... I mean, play with the melody." Hancock: "Oh, yeah." Davis: "...but don't play any other boomp-boop-boom..."
4	Hand Jive (take 4 (fs)) (T. Williams)	1:15
	Macero: "Four..." Carter: "That one bar there..." Davis: "Do... you don't have to record it." Macero: "OK." Hancock (to Carter): "There's two bars..." Carter: "There's only one bar..."Macero: "OK." Davis: "Go ahead, start again, Herbie. (to Carter) Twenty-four bars you got here, right, Ron?" Macero: "Four..." Carter: "No." Shorter: "Oh, you still cut out that, those two bars... that A-flat minor major ninth." Davis: "Wayne, lemme run it down to ya." Carter: "Yeah." Shorter: "Twenty-four? Oh, I just..." Davis: "All right? I got the chords right here." (cut) Carter: "I won't play nothin'" Davis: "Play like you were playin'! One-two-three-four..." Short run-through (0:27). Davis: "Yeah. Do it again. That's cute. Play that back, man... (cut) So fast, it's always so fast, sweetheart..."
5	Hand Jive (take 5 (fs)) (T. Williams)	1:26
	Macero: "Take five..." Davis: "Hey, wait till we get in it, Teo. (to Shorter) Come on, we leave that shit out, man." False start (0:09). Davis: "OK." He and Shorter play briefly. Davis: "Can we end it like (he plays the opening phrase) Can we end it like that?" More practicing. Williams: "Play it into the end of that chorus, coming in with Wayne's solo..." Davis: "Sheeit!" Williams: "...or somethin' like that." Shorter: "How 'bout over and over? (he demonstrates)" Davis: "We'll just play it straight through. OK..."
6	Hand Jive (take 6) (T. Williams)	6:53
	Macero: "Six..." Complete take (6:45); as it winds down, Davis: "Hey, play that, Teo." (cut)
7	Hand Jive (take 7 (fs)) (T. Williams)	0:33
	Macero: "This'd be take seven..." Undecipherable discussion. Davis: "Go ahead, Herbie." Hancock: "I'm tryin' to find some phrases in here..." False start (0:07)
8	Hand Jive (take 8 (fs)) (T. Williams)	0:33
	Macero: "Miles, when... Let's do it again. Eight..." Short run-through (0:28)
9	Hand Jive (take 9) (T. Williams)	8:19
	Macero: "Nine. Take nine..." Complete take (8:10). Davis: "Teo, see the first... (cut)
10	Hand Jive (take 10 (fs)) (T. Williams)	0:09
	Macero: "This'll be take ten." False start (0:04). Macero: "That's a good tempo..."
11	Hand Jive (take 11) (T. Williams)	9:00
	Macero: "Eleven..." Complete take (8:48). Davis: "Play that one, Teo..."


6 Hand Jive (take 6) 12" LP: Mosaic MQ10-177 CD: Columbia C6K 67398, Columbia C6K 90925, Sony SRCS 8575/80, Sony SICP 663/8, Columbia Legacy 86975 24922 [= Columbia (F) 88697 52492] (CD 28)
9 Hand Jive (take 9) 12" LP: Mosaic MQ10-177 CD: Columbia C6K 67398, Columbia C6K 90925, Columbia CK 65681, Sony SRCS 8575/80, Sony SICP 663/8, Columbia Legacy 86975 24922 [= Columbia (F) 88697 52492] (CD 28)
11 Hand Jive (take 11) 12" LP: Columbia CL 2794 (= CS 9594), Music on Vinyl MOV LP031, Mobile Fidelity Sound Laboratory MFSL 2-45436, CBS/Sony SONP 50186, CBS/Sony SONP 52049, CBS/Sony SOPL 167, CBS/Sony 18AP 2071, CBS/Sony 23AP 2571, CBS/Sony 25AP 767, Mosaic MQ10-177 CD: Columbia CK 46113, Columbia CK 65681, Columbia C6K 67398, Columbia C6K 90925, CBS/Sony 32DP 726, CBS/Sony CSCS 5149, Sony SRCS 9116, Sony SRCS 8575/80, Sony SICP 663/8, Sony SRCS 9747, Sony SRGS 4521, Sony SICP 829, Sony SICP 1218, Sony SICP 20082, Sony SICP 30265, Sony SICJ 30071, Columbia Legacy 86975 24922 [= Columbia (F) 88697 52492] (CD 28)

This is another in the ongoing series of New York studio sessions during May-July 1967. These sessions allowed the Quintet to develop new repertoire centered around original compositions. Only a few of these tunes -- "Masqualero," "Nefertiti," and "Riot" -- became staples of the Quintet's live performances, however.

It is not often that three complete studio takes of a tune are recorded by this group. Davis and Williams play especially well on take 9, but the master version (take 11) is more polished. The master version includes 0:03-0:56 from take 11; the alternate versions released in the Quintet box (Mosaic MQ10-177, Columbia C6K-67398) includes 0:02-6:50 from take 6 and 0:04-8:17 from take 9.

After returning from the west coast in mid-May, the Quintet was booked at the Village Vanguard (June 2-4), then went to the Village Gate (July 4-16 opposite Dizzy Gillespie, and August 15-27 opposite Ornette Coleman).