Miles Davis - My Funny Valentine

Release Date: Feb 23, 1965
Recording Period: Feb 1964
Billboard Jazz Albums Peak Position: 13
Label: Columbia Records

Miles Davis, Trumpet
George Coleman, Tenor Saxophone
Ron Carter, Bass
Herbie Hancock, Piano
Tony Williams, Drums
Teo Macero, Producer
Fred Plaut, Engineer

The concert was part of a series of benefits staged at the recently built Philharmonic Hall (now known as David Geffen Hall), co-sponsored by the NAACP, the Congress of Racial Equality and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Davis's set that night was ostensibly in support of voter registration in Mississippi and Louisiana, but he also mentioned in a Melody Maker interview that one of the concerts was in memory of John F. Kennedy, who had been assassinated the previous year. Kennedy's death had struck at the hopes of many in the Civil Rights Movement, a cause dear to Miles, who had expressed his admiration for the President in 1962: "I like the Kennedy brothers; they're swinging people."

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