This recording was made during a midnight performance at Amsterdam's Concertgebouw,
after the Quintet had performed an early evening concert at the Kurhaus in Scheveningen,
near The Hague. It was made for promoter Louis Van Rees' private archive and is
now owned by the Dutch Jazz Archive. I'm grateful to Arne Wolfswinkel for help
with this session.
From March 21 through April 10, the Davis Quintet toured Europe, along with Oscar
Peterson and the Stan Getz and their groups, under the auspices of Norman Granz's
"Jazz at the Philharmonic." Davis had hired vibraphonist Buddy Montgomery for the
tour but at the last minute Montgomery bowed out. Surprisingly few recordings from
this tour have surfaced. The itinerary was as follows:
March 21 (Monday, 7:30 and 10:00 pm), Olympia
Theatre, Paris
March 22 (Tuesday, 7:00 and 9:15 pm), Konserthuset,
Stockholm
March 23 (Wednesday), Njardhallen, Oslo (or Goteburg, Sweden)
March 24 (Thursday, 7:00 and 9:30 pm), Tivolis
Konsertsal, Copenhagen
March 25 (Friday, 8:00 pm), Niedersachsenhalle, Hannover
March 26 (Saturday, 8:00 pm), Weser-Ems-Halle, Oldenburg
March 27 (Sunday, 8:00 pm), Sportspalast, Berlin
March 28 (Monday), WDR Studio, Düsseldorf (Davis
out)
March 29 (Tuesday, 6:00 and 9:00 pm), Musikhalle, Hamburg
March 30 (Wednesday), Kongresshalle, Frankfurt
am Main
March 31 (Thursday, 9:15 pm), Teatro Lirico, Milan
April 1 (Friday, 8:00 pm), Fruchthalle, Kaiserslautern
April 2 (Saturday, 6:15 and 9:45 pm), Messehalle, Köln
April 3 (Sunday, 6:00 and 9:00 pm), Deutsches
Museum, Kongress-Saal, Munich
April 4 (Monday, 8:00 pm), Stadthalle, Karlsruhe
April 6 (Wednesday), Stadthalle, Vienna
April 7 (Thursday, two shows), Messehaus, Nürnberg
April 8 (Friday, 8:30 pm), Kongresshaus, Zürich
April 9 (Saturday, 8:15 pm), Kurhaus, Scheveningen
April 9 (Saturday, midnight), Concertgebouw,
Amsterdam
April 10 (Sunday, 8:00 pm), Liederhalle, Beethoven-Saal, Stuttgart
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