Miles Davis Quintet - Zurich 1960 (2012)

No doubt this is a very important part of the recorded works of the Miles Davis Quintet. This is the first official release of this legendary performance recorded in Zürich, Switzerland on April 8, 1960. This tour turned out to be part of the last tour that featured John Coltrane as a member of the Miles Davis Quintet. A great, historic recording with never before officially released performances! Miles Davis is one of the most popular jazz musicians of all time, and this recording features Davis at his best. This performance, in addition to John Coltrane, features Wynton Kelly on piano, Paul Chambers on bass, and Jimmy Cobb on drums.

Review
Some would argue, on the strength of the halfdozen
records that document the group s
performances on this short tour, that this represents
another of Davis great quintets and certainly
Coltrane fans will find a great deal to savor here,
closer in style to what he would soon do on his own
than to earlier work with Miles. Supposedly he was
put out at having to accept the work as a sideman at
this point, though the sometimes-expressed idea
that all the energy he pours into his improvisations
is just a matter of venting his frustration seems thin.
Miles himself certainly seems to be in good spirits,
as he shows when he bases an entire chorus of All
Blues on a quote from The Blue Danube (it is
ALL Blues , after all…).
-Duck Baker –The New York City Jazz Record

Tracklist
1 Introduction
2 If I Were a Bell
3 Fran-Dance
4 So What
5 All Blues/ Bye Bye