My Funny Valentine – Davis, Miles – LP – Brand New Vinyl (Arrives in 20days)

Miles Davis’ My Funny Valentine marks several historic turning
points. For Davis, the live album represents the final time on record
he performed 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’ 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 staged just months after
President Kennedy’s assassination. 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,
strictly limited to 3,000 numbered copies, and pressed at Fidelity
Record Pressing, Mobile Fidelity’s 180g 33RPM SuperVinyl LP plays
with stunning depth, presence, dynamics, clarity, and ambience.
Benefitting from a low-as-possible noise floor and superb groove
definition, this 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. One listen confirms something special
transpiring. Here’s the chance to return to it again and again.