There is probably more music from the first set. The applause after "On Green Dolphin
Street" is faded very quickly and the Quintet may have performed another tune and
almost certainly closed the set with "The Theme."
From March 21 through April 10, the Davis Quintet toured Europe, along with Oscar
Peterson and 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), day off in Stockholm
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
The Paris date (recorded by Europe-1 Radio) was quite a controversial beginning
to the tour, since Coltrane was loudly booed during his solos on "All of You" and
"Bye Bye Blackbird." Some contemporary reviews of the 1960 Quintet are reprinted
in the booklet that accompanies Trema 710455/8.
Thanks to David Wild, Guy Reynard, and David Young for help with this session.
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