Miles Davis - What is considered his best live album?

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Not including the real early stuff, which i have heard.

― meister, Friday, 22 July 2005 18:06 (twenty years ago)

In general? Probably Four + More (early quintet stuff w/George Coleman instead of Wayne Shorter), Live at the Plugged Nickel (late quintet), or Pangaea/Agharta (mid 70s, take your pick).

By me? Live Around the World 1984-'91!

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 22 July 2005 18:10 (twenty years ago)

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oh, I like Agharta too.

― jmeister (jmeister), Friday, 22 July 2005 18:11 (twenty years ago)

i like live at the fillmore - bitches brew-era stuff, but it has this awesome tone of electro-skronk that the album lacks. it sounds much more vicious than the album...

also, live/evil is awesome (if only half-live), and ive heard great things about dark magus, black beauty, live at the phil. hall, and agharta.

― peter smith (plsmith), Friday, 22 July 2005 18:12 (twenty years ago)

I used to really like Black Beauty but I haven't heard it for years.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 22 July 2005 18:14 (twenty years ago)

I guess it sort of depends on your level of appreciation for the electric era/post Bitches Brew Miles. Pre Bitches Brew I'd go for "Live at the Plugged Nickel". For the electric era I'd go with "Live at the Fillmore East, March 7, 1970: It's About That Time" (the Bitches Brew band live and heavy, I prefer this to Bitches Brew actually) or "Live/Evil" or maybe "Dark Magus".

― Joel (aquabahn), Friday, 22 July 2005 19:35 (twenty years ago)

DARK MAGUS! Or AGHARTA!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 22 July 2005 19:38 (twenty years ago)

Pre-electric: Miles In Tokyo, "Four" & More, My Funny Valentine and Highlights From The Plugged Nickel are all great. (The last one is culled from the 8-CD complete Plugged Nickel box and is not the same as the old Cookin' At The Plugged Nickel.)

Electric: Black Beauty is super-noisy and distorted, In Concert: Live At Philharmonic Hall is more like live electronic jamming than funk or jazz or anything else from this period and is way underrated, and Agharta and Pangaea are acid-funk-metal twin monsters.

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Friday, 22 July 2005 20:42 (twenty years ago)

In Concert: Live At Philharmonic Hall is more like live electronic jamming than funk or jazz or anything else from this period and is way underrated

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― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Friday, 22 July 2005 20:54 (twenty years ago)

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