Live in Roma 1969

Offbeat takes you back with the Miles Davis Quintet, live at the Teatro Sistina, Rome, broadcast from RAI on October 27th, 1969. Seeing the Miles Davis Quintet live in Rome in 1969 would have felt less like attending a concert and more like witnessing a controlled detonation. By that point, Miles was no longer interested in comfort, nostalgia, or even clarity in the traditional sense. The band onstage -- Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter, Chick Corea, Dave Holland, and Jack DeJohnette -- was operating at the outer edge of jazz, stretching time, harmony, and form until they nearly dissolved. What the audience experienced was music in motion, constantly reshaping itself in real time.