Miles Davis Quintet with John Coltrane: Live In Zurich

Rating: ★★★★

Record and Artist Details

Musicians:

Brad Jones (b)
Chad Taylor (d, mbira)
Aruan Ortiz (p, v)

Label:

Intakt Records

June/2018

RecordDate:

26 November 2016

The 59-minute Zurich concert last appeared on both Storyville and TCB (see Jazzwise 168), while the 19-minute bonus broadcast from Café Bohemia was included in the 2-CD United Archives compilation (Jazzwise 170). So, after checking that you don't have all the material already, recall that this was the next-to-last date of Coltrane's last tour with Miles. While it's fanciful to suggest there's any musical tension between them (Trane fits perfectly within the framework, just as when he returned to guest on Some Day My Prince Will Come a year later), he does play longish solos and, on ‘If I Were A Bell’, he spends 30 seconds near the start of his bit just playing variations on a three-note phrase. Everyone else is up to their expected standard, and Miles even stretches out on ‘All Blues’. The 1958 airshot is more restrictive, less well recorded, and fascinating nevertheless. Any super-anoraks should note that the edit of its fragmentary closing ‘Two Bass Hit’ is different from the United Archives version, fading out before the studio voice-over. And it seems that the credit to Philly Joe, who was identified by the announcers, is incorrect because Cobb had just replaced him.

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