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Miles Davis & John Coltrane – The Final Tour
The Bootleg Series, Vol. 6
Miles Davis & John Coltrane – The Final Tour: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 6
Release Date:
Mar 23, 2018
Billboard Jazz Albums Peak Position:
1
Label:
Columbia/Legacy
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1. All of You – Live from Olympia Theatre, Paris – March 1960
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2. So What – Live from Olympia Theatre, Paris – March 1960
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3. On Green Dolphin Street – Live from Olympia Theatre, Paris – March 1960
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4. Walkin’ – Live from Olympia Theatre, Paris – March 1960
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1. Bye Bye Blackbird – Live from Olympia Theatre, Paris – March 1960
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2. ‘Round Midnight – Live from Olympia Theatre, Paris – March 1960
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3. Oleo – Live from Olympia Theatre, Paris – March 1960
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4. The Theme – Live from Olympia Theatre, Paris – March 1960
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5. Introduction (by Norman Granz) – Live from Tivolis Koncertsal, Copenhagen – March 1960
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6. So What – Live from Tivolis Koncertsal, Copenhagen – March 1960
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7. On Green Dolphin Street – Live from Tivolis Koncertsal, Copenhagen – March 1960
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8. All Blues – Live from Tivolis Koncertsal, Copenhagen – March 1960
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9. The Theme (incomplete) – Live from Tivolis Koncertsal, Copenhagen – March 1960
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1. Introduction (by Norman Granz) – Live from Konserthuset, Stockholm – March 1960
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2. So What – Live from Konserthuset, Stockholm – March 1960
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3. Fran-Dance – Live from Konserthuset, Stockholm – March 1960
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4. Walkin’ – Live from Konserthuset, Stockholm – March 1960
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5. The Theme – Live from Konserthuset, Stockholm – March 1960
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1. So What (Second Concert) – Live from Konserthuset, Stockholm – March 1960
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2. On Green Dolphin Street – Live from Konserthuset, Stockholm – March 1960
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3. All Blues – Live from Konserthuset, Stockholm – March 1960
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4. The Theme (Second Concert) – Live from Konserthuset, Stockholm – March 1960
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5. John Coltrane Interview – (by Carl-Erik Lindgren)
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Miles Davis & John Coltrane – The Final Tour: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 6 brings together, for the first time in an authorized edition with state-of-the-art production, five mythic concert performances as heard by lucky audiences during the epochal Spring 1960 Jazz At The Philharmonic European Tour: two shows from Paris’ L’Olympia Theater on Monday, March 21; two shows from the next night at Stockholm’s Konserthuset; and one from Copenhagen’s Tivolis Koncertsal three days later, on March 24.

The box set was produced by the multi-GRAMMY winning team of producers Steve Berkowitz, Michael Cuscuna and Richard Seidel. And mastered by multi-GRAMMY winning Sony Music engineer Mark Wilder. The set is authorized for official release by the Miles Davis Estate, the John Coltrane Estate, and Columbia Records/Legacy Recordings.

Miles Davis and John Coltrane were each implementing their own jazz revolutions at the time these recordings were made and the electrifying sonic frisson produced by the sometimes-competing/sometimes-intertwining musical visions of the artists perplexed contemporary jazz fans–many of whom were just getting acquainted with the recently-released and now iconic Kind of Blue.

“Much happened on that 1960 tour onstage and off, including powerful, emotionally charged performances in which one can hear the swinging, divergent energy of a band, and the unfiltered reactions of the European audiences: the crowd responses are indeed an inherent part of these historic performances,” writes GRAMMY Award-winning music historian Ashley Kahn in his in-depth revelatory liner notes penned especially for this collection. “The common judgement on this music is that it represents a great jazz ensemble audibly straining to hold itself together…An equally convincing interpretation of the 1960 situation is that Miles and his quintet were redefining what a great band could sound like, and how much music it could contain—at one time, in one concert, even in one tune. It’s not that the band members were so much apart, but rather that each were more themselves within the same unit—that divergence could co-exist and make music together.”

The Final Tour is essential listening, an invitation to travel through time to experience the enduring beauty and magic of Miles and Trane at the peak of their collective powers. The ensemble includes Miles Davis (trumpet), John Coltrane (tenor sax), Wynton Kelly (piano), Paul Chambers (bass), Jimmy Cobb (drums), all of whom had been performing together since the Kind of Blue album.

Awards
66th Annual DownBeat International Critics Poll
66th Annual DownBeat International Critics Poll
Aug 1, 2018
*Miles Davis & John Coltrane - The Final Tour: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 6*
Historical Album of the Year
Won
83rd Annual DownBeat Readers Poll
83rd Annual DownBeat Readers Poll
Dec 1, 2018
*Miles Davis & John Coltrane - The Final Tour: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 6*
Historical Album of the Year
Won
2019 JJA Jazz Awards
2019 JJA Jazz Awards
May 1, 2019
*Miles Davis & John Coltrane - The Final Tour: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 6*
Historical Record of the Year
Nominated
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