Miles Davis - That's What Happened 1982-1985: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 7 (2022) [CD-Rip]

That’s What Happened 1982-1985: Bootleg Volume 7 is the next installment in the celebrated, award-winning archival series that began in 2011, shining an in-depth light onto different eras of the legendary career of Miles Davis. In the 1980s, popular music had moved to a smoother, electronic-based sound that traded the steam of previous years for subdued arrangements meant to elicit peace and deep reflection. Miles Davis embraced this era, pulling inspiration from FM radio and an upstart music video channel called MTV. He was searching for the next frontier, letting his creativity roam. This music on The Bootleg Series Vol. 7 captures that exploration, and finds Miles beginning to re-emerge in a creative landscape far different than the one he left in 1975. He’s touched every inch of pop culture while keeping true to his iconoclastic vision of jazz as amorphous art that’s supposed to bend and flow and mutate to something else. On That’s What Happened, we get to play in the rubble of what would become yet another period of unprecedented innovation. Beauty resides in evolution.

The set collects nearly 4 hours of unreleased music including studio material from 1982 to 1985 plus a complete, blistering show of one of Miles’ last amazing bands captured live at the Festival International De Jazz De Montreal in July 1983. Side men include a multi-generational who’s who of jazz talent from JJ Johnson, John McLaughlin, Al Foster and John Scofield to Mike Stern, Marcus Miller, Daryl Jones and Vince Wilburn.

Miles Davis – That’s What Happened 1982-1985: The Bootleg Series Vol. 7 was produced by the multi-GRAMMY winning team of producers Steve Berkowitz, Michael Cuscuna and Richard Seidel and mastered by multi-GRAMMY winning Sony Music engineer Mark Wilder.

"Asked in the 1980s why he changed his music so many times, Miles replied 'You don't change music, music changes you,'" Tate wrote. "He also stridently stated: 'You don't play what the critics tell you to play, you play what your body tells you to play.'"

Tracklist
Disc 1 (01:06:13)
1. Santana (13:05)
2. Minor Ninths, Part 1 (03:12)
3. Minor Ninths, Part 2 (04:31)
4. Celestial Blues, Part 1 (08:03)
5. Celestial Blues, Part 2 (04:00)
6. Celestial Blues, Part 3 (05:56)
7. Remake Of OBX Ballad (04:57)
8. Remake Of OBX Ballad (Full Studio Session) (07:15)
9. Freaky Deaky, Part 1 (09:49)
10. Freaky Deaky, Part 2 (05:25)

Disc 2 (01:01:37)
1. Time After Time (Alternate) (05:53)
2. Time After Time (Full Studio Session) (08:56)
3. Theme From Jack Johnson (Right Off) / Intro (08:30)
4. Never Loved Like This (Studio Session Demo) (05:00)
5. Hopscotch (Slow) (05:34)
6. Hopscotch (Fast) (07:00)
7. What's Love Got To Do With It (04:21)
8. Human Nature (Alternate) (06:00)
9. Katia (Full Studio Session) (10:23)

Disc 3 (01:22:58)
1. Speak (That's What Happened) (Live at Theatre St-Denis, Montreal, Canada - July 7, 1983) (12:51)
2. Star People (Live at Theatre St-Denis, Montreal, Canada - July 7, 1983) (09:23)
3. What It Is (Live at Theatre St-Denis, Montreal, Canada - July 7, 1983) (06:45)
4. It Gets Better (Live at Theatre St-Denis, Montreal, Canada - July 7, 1983) (12:32)
5. Hopscotch (Live at Theatre St-Denis, Montreal, Canada - July 7, 1983) (07:18)
6. Star On Cicely (Live at Theatre St-Denis, Montreal, Canada - July 7, 1983) (09:11)
7. Jean-Pierre (Live at Theatre St-Denis, Montreal, Canada - July 7, 1983) (04:50)
8. Code 3 (Live at Theatre St-Denis, Montreal, Canada - July 7, 1983) (09:27)
9. Creepin' In (Jam) (Live at Theatre St-Denis, Montreal, Canada - July 7, 1983) (10:41)