1 Confirmation
12" LP: Ozone 8
CD: Fresh Sound FSCD-1000, Charly/Le Jazz CD 23, Definitive Records DRCD 11164, FAP 001/3

2 Out of the Blue
12" LP: Ozone 8
CD: Fresh Sound FSCD-1000, Charly/Le Jazz CD 23, Definitive Records DRCD 11164, FAP 001/3

This is Davis's first live date as a leader since the October Birdland broadcast. His All-Star group was booked at Birdland for one week, May 1-7. Two nights were broadcast on WJZ. Presumably there was more from this night, but so far this is all that has surfaced.

On May 31 a "gala affair" took place at the Union Park Temple in Chicago, where the "new king of the trumpet," Miles Davis, performed "with 2 bands." (No mention of the personnel, unfortunately.) An All-Star group comprising J.J. Johnson, Milds Davis [sic], Milt Jackson, Zoot Sims, Percy Heath, and Kenny Clarke, along with Symphony Sid Torin, "New York's Greatest Disc Jockey," was booked for a week (June 30-July 6) at Cleveland's Ebony Club.