Davis-Coltrane

[mrjazzman]

To all you experts out there, what cd's should i purchase to have the complete music from the 1960 Miles Davis-John Coltrane-Sonny Stitt European tour. the ones with the best sound quality. There seems to be previous releases plus new releases of the same music.......HELP

Edited November 24, 2005 by mrjazzman

[Rosco]

The ones I have are

En Concert avec Europe 1 (RTE/ Trema): March 21 & October 11 concerts at the Olympia, Paris

In Stockholm 1960 Complete (Dragon): March 22 & October 13

In Copenhagen 1960 (Gambit): March 24

Live in Zurich 1960 (Jazz Unlimited): April 8

Live with John Coltrane (RKO Unique Jazz): April 9 concert at The Hague

Manchester Concert: Complete 1960 Live at the Free Trade Hall (Lonehill Jazz): September 27

The April 9 Hague concert has also been issued as

Live in Den Haag (Lonehill Jazz) with some bonus tracks (nice but not essential) and while I've not done a back-to-back comparison the sound quality may be a shade below the Unique Jazz issue.

Sound quality on most of these is pretty good (the Paris and Stockholm sets particularly) but all of the Davis-Coltrane recordings from March & April are fascinating. The Manchester concert is in the poorest sound; listenable but with a few extraneous noises.

Oh, and the Paris dates have been issued separately on the budget Laserlight label (can't comment on quality).

There was a recent discussion on some of these here: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...871&hl=den+haag

[Tony Pusey]

Perhaps in a minority, but I am particularly fond of the Dragon Stockholm issue.

[MartyJazz]

Perhaps in a minority, but I am particularly fond of the Dragon Stockholm issue.

I totally agree. The music is fabulous and the fidelity is the best of all the material recorded from that tour. Plus there is a very interesting interview of Coltrane between sets. It is definitely the one to pick up if options are limited.

[Guy Berger]

To all you experts out there, what cd's should i purchase to have the complete music from the 1960 Miles Davis-John Coltrane-Sonny Stitt European tour. the ones with the best sound quality. There seems to be previous releases plus new releases of the same music.......HELP

There were two different tours, one with Coltrane in the spring and one with Stitt in the fall. As far as purchasing -- AFAIK, only some of this material has been officially licensed, right? If you reach a concert that (A) has not been officially licensed and (B) is only available at exorbitant bootlegged prices, I encourage you to consider other modes of acquisition.

Here are all the known recordings, according to Pete Losin:

w/Coltrane:

March 21, 1960 Olympia Theatre, Paris

March 22, 1960 Konserthuset, Stockholm

March 24, 1960 Tivoli Konsertsal, Copenhagen

March 30, 1960 Kongresshalle, Frankfurt

March-April 1960 Unknown venue, Unknown city

April 1, 1960 Rheinhalle, Düsseldorf

April 8, 1960 Kongresshaus, Zürich

April 9, 1960 Kurhaus, Scheveningen

w/Stitt:

September 27, 1960 Free Trade Hall, Manchester

October 11, 1960 Olympia Theatre, Paris

October 13, 1960 Konserthuset, Stockholm

Guy

Edited November 24, 2005 by Guy

[Eric]

You can find details of those dates, including sound quality, on this page:

http://plosin.com/milesAhead/Tapes.aspx?a=audio