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A Tribute to Miles

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Released
  
March 22, 1994

A Tribute to Miles(1994)
  
Dis Is Da Drum(1994)

Genre
  
Jazz

Length
  
59:57

Release date
  
1992

Producers
  
Tony Williams, Ron Carter

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Recorded
  
September 19, 1992 (#1, 7)Berkeley Community Theatre1994 (#2-6)Signet/Soundworks, Los Angeles

Label
  
Qwest/Reprise/Warner Bros. Records

Artists
  
Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Ron Carter, Tony Williams, Wallace Roney

Awards
  
Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Porin Award for Best Foreign Jazz Music Album

Similar
  
Herbie Hancock albums, Jazz albums

A Tribute to Miles is a tribute album by Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Tony Williams, Ron Carter and Wallace Roney to pay homage to their recently departed mentor, Miles Davis, who died in September 1991. Playing the part of Davis was young trumpet player Wallace Roney. Two of the songs were recorded live, during their national tour honoring their fallen mentor.

Contents

This album won all five men a Grammy award for Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Individual Or Group. This marked Hancock's third overall Grammy award.

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Track listing

  1. "So What" (Live) (Miles Davis) - 10:19
  2. "RJ" (Carter) - 4:04
  3. "Little One" (Hancock) - 7:20
  4. "Pinocchio" (Shorter) - 5:45
  5. "Elegy" (Williams) - 8:43
  6. "Eighty One" (Davis, Carter) - 7:29
  7. "All Blues" (Live) (Davis) - 15:17

Personnel

  • Herbie Hancock – piano, calliope
  • Wayne Shorter – tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone
  • Wallace Roney – trumpet
  • Ron Carter – bass
  • Tony Williams – drums

    • Songs

    1So What (live)10:20
    2RJ4:07
    3Little One7:20

    References

    A Tribute to Miles Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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