Trinidad Trinidad Trinidad is the larger and more populous of the two major islands of Trinidad and Tobago. The island lies off the northeastern coast of Venezuela and sits on the continental shelf of South America. Though geographically part of the South American continent, from a socio-economic standpoint it is often referred to as the southernmost island in the Caribbean. With an area of , it is also the fifth largest in the West Indies. The original name for the island in the Arawaks' language was "Iëre" which meant "Land of the Hummingbird". Christopher Columbus renamed it "La Isla de la
We Want Miles To get the support he needed to play, he wore a rubber corset. Still he planned a tour of Japan, which was the last country he played before his 1975 retirement, apart from a tour of the Midwest with Herbie Hancock and several East Coast dates that summer. On October 2, 3, and 4 he played at an outdoor venue in Shinjuku, Tokyo, under trying circumstances: the entire PA system blew out on the first night, during the show, and had to be rebuilt speaker by speaker. The October 4 show was released on the Japan-only "Miles! Miles! Miles!". Further