Description
180-gram Supervinyl LP
1/4" / 15 ips analog copy to DSD 64 to analog console to lathe
Sourced from the original master tape
Numbered edition limited to 3,000 copies!
Stoughton Printing gatefold jacket
Pressed on MoFi Supervinyl in honor of the album's 60th Anniversary, in stunning lifelike clarity!
My Funny Valentine: Miles Davis in Concert marks several historic turning points. For Davis, the live album represents the final time on record he'd perform standards rather than original compositions. It also stands as one of the last documents made by the same band that created Seven Steps to Heaven. As such, the work teems with bebop melodicism yet steers clear of Davis' oft-controversial avant-garde leanings.
Most significantly, the richly textured set — the bookend to the fast-paced Four & More — captures the warm ballads and delicate pieces performed at a February 12, 1964 benefit concert at New York's then-new Philharmonic Hall that occurred just months after President Kennedy's assassination. Seemingly channeling divine inspiration, Davis never sounded more elegant or poetic, particularly given the uniqueness of this 60th Anniversary Edition pressing.
Mastered at MoFi's California studio, housed in a Stoughton jacket, pressed at Fidelity Record Pressing on MoFi SuperVinyl, and strictly limited to 3,000 numbered copies. Mobile Fidelity's 180-gram 33RPM SuperVinyl LP plays with stunning depth, presence, dynamics, clarity, and ambience. Benefitting from SuperVinyl's low-as-possible noise floor and superb groove definition, this audiophile LP boasts balances, tonalities, and airiness that duplicate the experience of witnessing live jazz in an acoustically ideal hall. The images of each individual instrument, the decay of the notes, the inner reaches of the piano, and symmetry of the horns are rendered with palpable detail.
Held as a benefit to support voter registration in the South — and a fundraiser for NAACP, the Congress of Racial Equality, and SNCC — the concert came amidst the height of the Civil Rights movement, a cause dear to Davis' heart. The unforeseen circumstances surrounding Kennedy's death further raised the stakes. Having professed admiration for Kennedy years prior, Davis appears to approach the compositions on My Funny Valentine (in particular, the title track) as an homage to the fallen leader.
