Miles Davis Quintet - Live Europe 1960 Revisited (2022)

Track 1-3 recorded live at L'Olympia, Paris on March 21, 1960
Track 4-5 recorded live at Konserthuset, Stockholm on March 22, 1960

The Miles Davis Quintet of early 1960 was an endangered, embattled entity. Davis and his frontline foil John Coltrane had been drifting apart stylistically and temperamentally for months. United in the embrace and exploration of modal devices on the trumpeter’s seminal Kind of Blue album released the previous summer, bandleader and sideman were increasingly at odds as to where to go next with the celebrated innovations.

Miles Davis - (trumpet)
John Coltrane - (tenor saxophone)
Wynton Kelly - (piano)
Paul Chambers - (double bass)
Jimmy Cobb - (drums)