This is from the Mutual Network's Bandstand USA, which was broadcast live
on Saturday nights beginning in 1956.
The new year was just as busy as the previous year had been. The Davis Sextet was
booked at Birdland for two weeks, January 1-14 (Thursday-Wednesday). After the Birdland
gig, the Sextet's bookings included: Sutherland Hotel Lounge, Chicago (January
21-February 1); Civic Opera House, Chicago (Saturday, February 14, 8:00 and 11:00
pm); Showboat, Philadelphia (February 23-28); Apollo Theatre, New York (March 13-19);
Loew's Valencia Theatre, New York (Thursday, March 13, midnight show); WCBS-TV
Studio 61, New York (Thursday, April 2); Birdland, New York (April 16-29); Sutherland
Hotel Lounge, Chicago (May 6-17); Blackhawk Supper Club, San Francisco (May 29-June
21); Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles (Friday, June 26, 8:30pm); Jazz Seville, Los
Angeles (July 1-19). Coltrane left the group in the middle of the Jazz Seville gig,
although he would return about a month later. Davis hired Jimmy Heath as Coltrane's
replacement.
By January 1959 Coltrane had a recording contract with Atlantic: his first session
in the Atlantic Studios took place on January 15, and the famous Giant Steps
session took place on March 26. He left the Davis group and was replaced by Jimmy
Heath following the Jazz Seville engagement in July.
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