ABSTRACT
Note: A tape of “So What” by the Miles Davis Sextet in February or March 1960, with Buddy Montgomery on vibes, is rumored to exist.
Monday, March 21, 1960 (two concerts, 7:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m.). Olympia, Paris, France. MILES DAVIS QUINTET: Miles Davis (tp); John Coltrane (ts); Wynton Kelly (p); Paul Chambers
(b); Jimmy Cobb (dr)
Session Notes [1] Radio broadcast, Europe 1. [2] Two concerts were scheduled (according to an advertisement reproduced in Jazz Magazine [France],
Feb. 2004; thanks to Michel Delorme). Set orders for the two concerts are not conrmed, but are probably as listed here, based on the Trema/Europe 1 issue ( Trema [F] 710455~6, CDs 1 and 2). “ e eme” may also have been played during the rst concert; note that on the issued recording, “On Green Dolphin Street” abruptly fades out as the tune ends. (anks to Jan Lohmann.)
Issue Data 1 Trema (F) 710455~8 (Miles Davis en Concert avec Europe 1) (4 CD) (also including Miles
Davis concert in Paris, October 11, 1960, with Sonny Stitt)
Reissues: Trema (F) 330291; RTE 710576/710577 (Olympia-20/03/60 Part 1/Part 2) (wrong date) Laserlight 36130-2 (Miles Davis: Olympia, March 20th, 1960) (2 CD) (wrong date) Laserlight 02578 (In Concert Olympia, Paris-March 20, 1960) (2 CD) (wrong date) Laserlight/Europe 1 17409/17410 (Olympia-March 20th, 1960) (wrong date)
2 Trema (F) no no. (Miles Davis avec Europe 1 à L’Olympia, Le 21 Mars 1960) (CD included in the book Miles Davis, by Frédéric Goaty, published in association with Jazz Magazine)
3 Music Digi/Delta Music (Europe 1) 55969 (Miles Davis-Prime Cuts from the Legendary Paris Olympia Concerts) (3 CD)
Tuesday, March 22, 1960 (two concerts, 7:00 p.m. and 9:15 p.m.). Konserthuset, Stockholm, Sweden. MILES DAVIS QUINTET: Miles Davis (tp); John Coltrane (ts); Wynton Kelly (p); Paul Chambers
(b); Jimmy Cobb (dr); Norman Granz (ann)
Trema (F) 710455~8
*1 Preceded by a brief warm-up (p). On Dragon (Sw) DRLP 90~1, this shorter version of “So What” is placed before “On Green Dolphin Street” (to t better onto vinyl), with the applause spliced so that it sounds like a continuous performance. (Information from Lars Westin, e-mail, Dec. 13, 2003. Westin produced the authorized Dragon issues of this material [both LP and CD].)
*2 “Walkin’” is incomplete. Because of a aw in the original master tape, twelve bars are edited out of Miles Davis’s second solo on all issues. (Information from Lars Westin, e-mail, Dec. 13, 2003.)
*3 John Coltrane interviewed by Carl-Erik Lindgren between concerts; separated into two parts (3:16 + 2:50) on Dragon (Sw) DRLP 90~1. (See Appendix B, Recorded Interviews.)
*4 Preceded by a brief warm-up (p).
