Here is another pre-Bitches Brew version of "Miles Runs the Voodoo Down."
It's too bad that there is only a fragment of "Directions" -- this is the earliest
extant recording of the tune as a set-opener. The Quintet was followed by the Thelonious
Monk Quartet with Charlie Rouse, Larry Gales, and Ed Blackwell.
The Quintet was busy throughout the summer of 1969: Village Gate, New York (April
25-26, May 23-24, and July 29-August 10); Lennie's on the Turnpike, West Peabody
(May 5-11); Spectrum, Philadelphia (May 11); Plugged Nickel Club, Chicago (June
4-14); Blue Coronet Club, Brooklyn (June 21-29); Morgan State Jazz Festival, Baltimore
(June 22); Newport Festival (July 5); Central Park, New York (July 7); Memorial
Auditorium, Dallas (July 18); Juan-les-Pins Festival, Antibes (July 25-26); Rutgers
University Stadium, New Brunswick (July 27); Sheraton Park Hotel, French Lick (French
Lick Jazz Festival) (July 31); The Spectrum, Philadelphia (August 15); Kiel Auditorium,
St. Louis (August 16); Grant Park Theatre, Chicago (August 22); Crosley Field, Cincinnati
(Ohio Jazz Festival) (August 23).
Thanks to Alexander Keth and Bob Hanlon for help with this set.
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