1969 and Miles Davis was dancing to a different drum. Having completed recordings that ultimately became In A Silent Way, Miles, now 43-years old, undertook the first of two Europe trips that year when he made a 25 July appearance at the Juan-les-Pins Jazz Festival, in the South of France. Immediately after this he returned to the States and instigated the Bitches Brew sessions. Taking a break towards the end of October, Miles again embarked upon a series of European dates, where a number of these were either broadcast or illicitly taped. As such, these two performances have already done the rounds in varying degrees of fidelity: here the overall sound is superior.

The quintet's set list was similar to the Antibes appearance in that it still accommodated popular old skool material such as ‘'Round Midnight’ and ‘I Fall In Love Too Easily’ juxtaposed with the still-to-be-released ‘Bitches Brew’ and ‘Miles Runs The Voodoo Down’. However, a few months later Miles would both frighten the horses and alienate a whole swath of fans with a radical new approach that forever changed contemporary jazz music. These live performances bridge the moment where Miles was about to ditch the recent (acoustic) past and hurtle head long into a funk-based electrofried future. Though Miles was still leading a standard two horns/three rhythm line-up, it was this new rhythm team –with Chick Corea's bubbling electric piano centre stage – that gave the group a whole new palette of brilliant colours. Henceforth, things would never quite be the same.