![How 1964 New York Philharmonic Hall Concert Spawned Two Classic Miles Davis Albums – NPR](https://cdn-p.smehost.net/sites/c5d2b1a28fd246bfafed3b8dbafc1352/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/140211_myfvalentine_06.jpg)
Fifty years ago, on Feb. 12, 1964, Miles Davis led a band through one of the most exciting gigs to ever take place at New York’s Philharmonic Hall. The show was a cultural event: a benefit for voter registration in Louisiana and Mississippi at the high point of the the civil rights movement, and an unofficial homage to John F. Kennedy, who had been assassinated a few months before. And the recording of the evening would turn into not one, but two live albums: the ballad-based My Funny Valentine and the more frenetic Four & More.
Read more and listen to NPR’s report on this historic concert.