We Want Miles

We Want Miles
Live album by
Miles Davis
ReleasedMay 1982
RecordedJune 27, July 5 & October 4, 1981
VenueKIX in Boston, Avery Fisher Hall in NYC and special stage in Nishi-Shinjuku
GenreJazz fusion, jazz funk
Length76:45
LabelCBS
ProducerTeo Macero
Miles Davis chronology
The Man with the Horn
(1981) 		We Want Miles
(1982) 		Star People
(1983)
Miles Davis live chronology
Pangaea
(1975) 		We Want Miles
(1981) 		Miles! Miles! Miles!
(1981)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]
Rolling Stone[2]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide[3]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings [4]

We Want Miles is a double album recorded by jazz trumpeter Miles Davis in 1981, produced by Teo Macero and released by Columbia Records in 1982. The album combines recordings from the first live appearances by Davis in more than five years, at Boston's Kix Club, on June 27, 1981. Other tracks were recorded at Avery Fisher Hall, New York City, on July 5, and a specially prepared stage at Nishi-Shinjuku in Tokyo, Japan, October 4 of that year.

  1. ^ Yanow, Scott (2011). "We Want Miles - Miles Davis". AllMusic. Retrieved 8 August 2011.
  2. ^ Morison, Buzz (2011). "Miles Davis: We Want Miles". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on July 24, 2008. Retrieved 8 August 2011.
  3. ^ Swenson 58.
  4. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 351. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.