Miles Davis, Mood

This may be more for night time, but here’s the Miles Davis quintet playing “MOOD” in 1965, from the album ESP.

In some ways, though, Wayne Shorter on tenor sax is the highlight of this song (solo from the 3:32 mark). Herbie Hancock is in the background too. If memory serves, it’s Ron Carter on bass [ADDENDUM: Like a fool I originally wrote Elvin Jones,” another drummer– morning brain cramp] and Tony Williams on drums at this point in quintet history. Despite being such a notoriously difficult character, Miles was one of the great band leaders in the history of modern jazz.

If you like this album, “Miles Smiles” is another album with the same basic sound with the same quintet from almost exactly the same time. Oh yes, the same quintet also plays on the massive “Live at the Plugged Nickel” collection from Chicago, again from around the same time. The Plugged Nickel hasn’t existed for a long time, though.