Miles Runs The Voodoo Down

MURRAY LERNER, a documentary filmmaker now in his 70s, filmed a legendary open-air rock concert on England’s Isle of Wight in August of 1970. Tied up until 1997 in legal hassles, Lerner has only just now released a Woodstock-style documentary of the event’s highlights along with a collection of individual DVDs featuring the entire sets of individual acts.

One of those acts was Miles Davis and his band. Their 38-minute set has been padded with almost 90 minutes of newly taped interviews with several of Davis’s sidemen, along with his acolytes Carlos Santana and Joni Mitchell. The DVD, Miles Electric: A Different Kind of Blue, is informative.