The Cellar Door Sessions 1970 is a boxed live album released in 2005. It was recorded on several 1970 concerts at the Washington-based nightclub The Cellar Door

The Cellar Door

The Cellar Door was a music club at 34th and M Street NW in Washington, D.C. from 1965 through 1981. It emerged from The Shadows, Georgetown, Washington, D.C. It was one of the premier music spots in Washington and was the genesis as well as a tryout for larger markets...

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Significant portions of Davis' Live-Evil were edited and compiled from the music that appears on discs 5 and 6.

It is one of few recordings Keith Jarrett

Keith Jarrett

Keith Jarrett is an American pianist and composer who performs both jazz and classical music.Jarrett started his career with Art Blakey, moving on to play with Charles Lloyd and Miles Davis. Since the early 1970s he has enjoyed a great deal of success in jazz, jazz fusion, and classical music; as...

 playing electric piano. Live-Evil and this collection are the only official recordings of John McLaughlin

John McLaughlin (musician)

John McLaughlin , also known as Mahavishnu John McLaughlin, is an English guitarist, bandleader and composer...

 live performances with Miles Davis.

Disc 1

Wednesday, December 16 (1st set)

1. "Directions" (Joe Zawinul
   Joe Zawinul
   Josef Erich Zawinul was an Austrian-American jazz keyboardist and composer.First coming to prominence with saxophonist Cannonball Adderley, Zawinul went on to play with trumpeter Miles Davis, and to become one of the creators of jazz fusion, an innovative musical genre that combined jazz with...
   
   ) 8:55
2. "Yesternow" (Miles Davis
   Miles Davis
   Miles Dewey Davis III was an American jazz musician, trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. Widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Miles Davis was, with his musical groups, at the forefront of several major developments in jazz music, including bebop, cool jazz,...
   
   ) 17:05
3. "What I Say" (Davis) 13:12
4. "Improvisation #1" (Keith Jarrett
   Keith Jarrett
   Keith Jarrett is an American pianist and composer who performs both jazz and classical music.Jarrett started his career with Art Blakey, moving on to play with Charles Lloyd and Miles Davis. Since the early 1970s he has enjoyed a great deal of success in jazz, jazz fusion, and classical music; as...
   
   ) 4:29
5. "Inamorata" (Davis) 13:59

Disc 2

Thursday, December 17 (2nd set)

1. "What I Say" 13:33
2. "Funky Tonk" (Davis) 19:59
3. "It's About That Time" (Davis) 14:41
4. "Improvisation #2" (Jarrett) 6:39
5. "Inamorata" 14:33
6. "Sanctuary" (Wayne Shorter
   Wayne Shorter
   Wayne Shorter is an American jazz saxophonist and composer.He is generally acknowledged to be jazz's greatest living composer, and many of his compositions have become standards...
   
   ) 0:30

Disc 3

Friday, December 18 (2nd set)

1. "Directions" 13:11
2. "Funky Tonk" 18:31
3. "What I Say" 15:09

Disc 4

Friday, December 18 (3rd set)

1. "Directions" 11:53
2. "Funky Tonk" 17:00
3. "What I Say" 14:12
4. "Sanctuary" 2:03
5. "Improvisation #3" (Jarrett) 5:04
6. "Inamorata" 15:14

Disc 5

Saturday, December 19 (2nd set)

1. "Directions" 15:09
2. "Funky Tonk" 20:49
3. "What I Say" 21:31

Disc 6

Saturday, December 19 (3rd set)

1. "Directions" 19:04
2. "Improvisation #4" (Jarrett) 5:03
3. "Inamorata" 18:27
4. "Sanctuary" 2:12
5. "It's About That Time" 7:49

Personnel

• Miles Davis
  Miles Davis
  Miles Dewey Davis III was an American jazz musician, trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. Widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Miles Davis was, with his musical groups, at the forefront of several major developments in jazz music, including bebop, cool jazz,...
  
  : electric trumpet
  Trumpet
  The trumpet is the musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BCE. They are played by blowing air through closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound which starts a standing wave vibration in the air...
  
   with wah-wah
• Gary Bartz
  Gary Bartz
  Gary Bartz is an American alto and soprano saxophonist and clarinetist.Bartz graduated from the Baltimore City College high school and The Juilliard School...
  
  : soprano sax and alto sax
• Keith Jarrett
  Keith Jarrett
  Keith Jarrett is an American pianist and composer who performs both jazz and classical music.Jarrett started his career with Art Blakey, moving on to play with Charles Lloyd and Miles Davis. Since the early 1970s he has enjoyed a great deal of success in jazz, jazz fusion, and classical music; as...
  
  : Fender Rhodes electric piano, Fender Contempo organ
• Michael Henderson
  Michael Henderson
  Michael Henderson is an American bass guitarist and vocalist best known for his bass playing with Miles Davis in the early 1970s, on early fusion albums such as A Tribute to Jack Johnson, Pangaea, and Live-Evil.- Biography :He was one of the first notable bass guitarists of the fusion era as well...
  
  : electric bass
  Electric Bass
  Electric bass can mean:*Electric upright bass, the electric version of a double bass*Electric bass guitar*Bass synthesizer*Big Mouth Billy Bass, a battery-powered singing fish...
  
  
• Jack DeJohnette
  Jack DeJohnette
  Jack DeJohnette is an American jazz drummer, pianist, and composer. He is one of the most influential jazz drummers of the 20th century, due to extensive work as leader and sideman for musicians like Miles Davis, Joe Henderson, Freddie Hubbard, Keith Jarrett and Sonny...
  
  : drums
• Airto Moreira
  Airto Moreira
  Airto Moreira is a Brazilian jazz drummer and percussionist. Airto is married to jazz singer Flora Purim, and their daughter Diana Moreira is also a singer. He currently resides in Los Angeles.-Biography:...
  
  : percussion, cuica
  Cuíca
  Cuíca , or "kweeca", is a Brazilian friction drum often used in samba music. The tone it produces has a high-pitched squeaky timbre. It has been called a 'laughing gourd' due to this sound....
  
   (CDs 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)

Guest musician:

• John McLaughlin
  John McLaughlin (musician)
  John McLaughlin , also known as Mahavishnu John McLaughlin, is an English guitarist, bandleader and composer...
  
  : electric guitar
  Electric guitar
  An electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...
  
  (CDs 5, 6 only)