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When you see the names Miles Davis and John Coltrane on the same poster, you feel a shiver down your spine. This sixth instalment of the trumpet player's Bootleg Series that shiver grows – to put it euphemistically – to ecstasy. The Final Tour concentrates on the final chapter of the collaboration between Miles and Coltrane. On four CDs, it takes in performances recorded as part of their 1960 European tour – their last outing together before the saxophonist's death in July 1967. It includes both concerts at the Paris Olympia of 21 March 1960, the two concerts of 22 March in Stockholm, and of 24 March in Copenhagen, all available for the first time on a format other than quarter-inch tape.
These five concerts take place about a year after the release of the masterpiece Kind of Blue, which shook the jazz world to its core. Our protagonists' nuclear creative power threaten the quintet with catastrophe at every turn. With pianist Wynton Kelly, bassist Paul Chambers and drummer Jimmy Cobb, Miles and Trane deliver torrential improvisations in which fusion and opposition battle it out. But miraculously, it all holds together. And how! It's the magic of these five concerts: hearing the five giants all at once, and their ability to match each other's pace, and roar in unison.
In terms of the repertoire, this box set is a kind of davisian nirvana: it holds all the greatest themes (not always his own) which made the trumpeter's name: ’Round Midnight, Bye Bye Blackbird, On Green Dolphin Street, Walkin’, All Of You, Oleo, So What and All Blues… Finally, The Final Tour finishes on a jaw-dropping interview given by Coltrane to the Swedish DJ Carl-Erik Lindgren. "Do you feel angry?," asks Lindgren. "No, I don't," says Trane. "I was talking to a fellow the other day, and I told him, the reason I play so many sounds, maybe it sounds angry, I'm trying so many things at one time. I haven't sorted them out." Listening to these 1960 concerts, we can only respond: long live confusion! © Marc Zisman/Qobuz
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John Coltrane, Tenor Saxophone, Soloist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Cole Porter, Composer, Lyricist - Miles Davis, Trumpet, Soloist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Paul Chambers, Bass - Wynton Kelly, Piano, Soloist - Jimmy Cobb, Drums - Miles Davis & John Coltrane, AssociatedPerformer
Originally recorded 1960 & released 2017. All rights reserved by Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
John Coltrane, Tenor Saxophone, Soloist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Miles Davis, Composer, Trumpet, Soloist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Paul Chambers, Bass - Wynton Kelly, Piano, Soloist - Jimmy Cobb, Drums - Miles Davis & John Coltrane, AssociatedPerformer
Originally recorded 1960 & released 2017. All rights reserved by Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
John Coltrane, Tenor Saxophone, Soloist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Ned Washington, Lyricist - Miles Davis, Trumpet, Soloist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Paul Chambers, Bass, Soloist - Wynton Kelly, Piano, Soloist - Bronislau Kaper, Composer - Jimmy Cobb, Drums - Miles Davis & John Coltrane, AssociatedPerformer
Originally recorded 1960 & released 2017. All rights reserved by Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
John Coltrane, Tenor Saxophone, Soloist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Miles Davis, Trumpet, Soloist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Paul Chambers, Bass, Soloist - Wynton Kelly, Piano, Soloist - Jimmy Cobb, Drums - Richard Carpenter, Composer - Miles Davis & John Coltrane, AssociatedPerformer
Originally recorded 1960 & released 2017. All rights reserved by Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
DISC 2
John Coltrane, Tenor Saxophone, Soloist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Miles Davis, Trumpet, Soloist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Mort Dixon, Lyricist - Ray Henderson, Composer - Paul Chambers, Bass - Wynton Kelly, Piano, Soloist - Jimmy Cobb, Drums - Miles Davis & John Coltrane, AssociatedPerformer
Originally recorded 1960 & released 2017. All rights reserved by Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
John Coltrane, Tenor Saxophone, Soloist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Thelonious Monk, Composer - Miles Davis, Trumpet, Soloist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Bernie Hanighen, Lyricist - Cootie Williams, Composer - Paul Chambers, Bass - Wynton Kelly, Piano - Jimmy Cobb, Drums - Miles Davis & John Coltrane, AssociatedPerformer
Originally recorded 1960 & released 2017. All rights reserved by Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
John Coltrane, Tenor Saxophone, Soloist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Miles Davis, Trumpet, Soloist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Paul Chambers, Bass - Wynton Kelly, Piano - Sonny Rollins, Composer - Jimmy Cobb, Drums - Miles Davis & John Coltrane, AssociatedPerformer
Originally recorded 1960 & released 2017. All rights reserved by Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
John Coltrane, Tenor Saxophone, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Miles Davis, Composer, Trumpet, Soloist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Paul Chambers, Bass - Wynton Kelly, Piano - Jimmy Cobb, Drums - Miles Davis & John Coltrane, AssociatedPerformer
Originally recorded 1960 & released 2017. All rights reserved by Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
John Coltrane, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Miles Davis, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Spoken Word, Composer, Lyricist - Norman Granz, AssociatedPerformer - Miles Davis & John Coltrane, AssociatedPerformer
Originally recorded 1960 & released 2017. All rights reserved by Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
John Coltrane, Tenor Saxophone, Soloist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Miles Davis, Composer, Lyricist, Trumpet, Soloist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Paul Chambers, Bass - Wynton Kelly, Piano, Soloist - Jimmy Cobb, Drums - Miles Davis & John Coltrane, AssociatedPerformer
Originally recorded 1960 & released 2017. All rights reserved by Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
John Coltrane, Tenor Saxophone, Soloist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Ned Washington, Lyricist - Miles Davis, Trumpet, Soloist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Paul Chambers, Bass, Soloist - Wynton Kelly, Piano, Soloist - Bronislau Kaper, Composer - Jimmy Cobb, Drums - Miles Davis & John Coltrane, AssociatedPerformer
Originally recorded 1960 & released 2017. All rights reserved by Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
John Coltrane, Tenor Saxophone, Soloist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Miles Davis, Composer, Trumpet, Soloist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Paul Chambers, Bass - Wynton Kelly, Piano, Soloist - Jimmy Cobb, Drums - Miles Davis & John Coltrane, AssociatedPerformer
Originally recorded 1960 & released 2017. All rights reserved by Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
John Coltrane, Tenor Saxophone, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Miles Davis, Composer, Trumpet, Soloist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Paul Chambers, Bass - Wynton Kelly, Piano - Jimmy Cobb, Drums - Miles Davis & John Coltrane, AssociatedPerformer
Originally recorded 1960 & released 2017. All rights reserved by Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
DISC 3
John Coltrane, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Miles Davis, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Spoken Word, Composer, Lyricist - Norman Granz, AssociatedPerformer - Miles Davis & John Coltrane, AssociatedPerformer
Originally recorded 1960 & released 2017. All rights reserved by Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
John Coltrane, Tenor Saxophone, Soloist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Miles Davis, Composer, Trumpet, Soloist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Paul Chambers, Bass - Wynton Kelly, Piano, Soloist - Jimmy Cobb, Drums - Miles Davis & John Coltrane, AssociatedPerformer
Originally recorded 1960 & released 2017. All rights reserved by Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
John Coltrane, Tenor Saxophone, Soloist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Miles Davis, Composer, Trumpet, Soloist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Paul Chambers, Bass, Soloist - Wynton Kelly, Piano, Soloist - Jimmy Cobb, Drums - Miles Davis & John Coltrane, AssociatedPerformer
(P) 2017 Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
John Coltrane, Tenor Saxophone, Soloist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Miles Davis, Trumpet, Soloist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Paul Chambers, Bass, Soloist - Wynton Kelly, Piano, Soloist - Jimmy Cobb, Drums - Richard Carpenter, Composer - Miles Davis & John Coltrane, AssociatedPerformer
Originally recorded 1960 & released 2017. All rights reserved by Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
John Coltrane, Tenor Saxophone, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Miles Davis, Composer, Trumpet, Soloist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Paul Chambers, Bass - Wynton Kelly, Piano - Jimmy Cobb, Drums - Miles Davis & John Coltrane, AssociatedPerformer
Originally recorded 1960 & released 2017. All rights reserved by Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
DISC 4
John Coltrane, Tenor Saxophone, Soloist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Miles Davis, Composer, Trumpet, Soloist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Paul Chambers, Bass - Wynton Kelly, Piano, Soloist - Jimmy Cobb, Drums - Miles Davis & John Coltrane, AssociatedPerformer
Originally recorded 1960 & released 2017. All rights reserved by Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
John Coltrane, Tenor Saxophone, Soloist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Ned Washington, Lyricist - Miles Davis, Trumpet, Soloist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Paul Chambers, Bass, Soloist - Wynton Kelly, Piano, Soloist - Bronislau Kaper, Composer - Jimmy Cobb, Drums - Miles Davis & John Coltrane, AssociatedPerformer
Originally recorded 1960 & released 2017. All rights reserved by Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
John Coltrane, Tenor Saxophone, Soloist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Miles Davis, Composer, Trumpet, Soloist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Paul Chambers, Bass - Wynton Kelly, Piano, Soloist - Jimmy Cobb, Drums - Miles Davis & John Coltrane, AssociatedPerformer
Originally recorded 1960 & released 2017. All rights reserved by Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
John Coltrane, Tenor Saxophone, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Miles Davis, Composer, Trumpet, Soloist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Paul Chambers, Bass - Wynton Kelly, Piano - Jimmy Cobb, Drums - Miles Davis & John Coltrane, AssociatedPerformer
Originally recorded 1960 & released 2017. All rights reserved by Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
John Coltrane, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Spoken Word, Composer, Lyricist - Carl-Erik Lindgren, AssociatedPerformer
Originally recorded 1960 & released 2017. All rights reserved by Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Album review
When you see the names Miles Davis and John Coltrane on the same poster, you feel a shiver down your spine. This sixth instalment of the trumpet player's Bootleg Series that shiver grows – to put it euphemistically – to ecstasy. The Final Tour concentrates on the final chapter of the collaboration between Miles and Coltrane. On four CDs, it takes in performances recorded as part of their 1960 European tour – their last outing together before the saxophonist's death in July 1967. It includes both concerts at the Paris Olympia of 21 March 1960, the two concerts of 22 March in Stockholm, and of 24 March in Copenhagen, all available for the first time on a format other than quarter-inch tape.
These five concerts take place about a year after the release of the masterpiece Kind of Blue, which shook the jazz world to its core. Our protagonists' nuclear creative power threaten the quintet with catastrophe at every turn. With pianist Wynton Kelly, bassist Paul Chambers and drummer Jimmy Cobb, Miles and Trane deliver torrential improvisations in which fusion and opposition battle it out. But miraculously, it all holds together. And how! It's the magic of these five concerts: hearing the five giants all at once, and their ability to match each other's pace, and roar in unison.
In terms of the repertoire, this box set is a kind of davisian nirvana: it holds all the greatest themes (not always his own) which made the trumpeter's name: ’Round Midnight, Bye Bye Blackbird, On Green Dolphin Street, Walkin’, All Of You, Oleo, So What and All Blues… Finally, The Final Tour finishes on a jaw-dropping interview given by Coltrane to the Swedish DJ Carl-Erik Lindgren. "Do you feel angry?," asks Lindgren. "No, I don't," says Trane. "I was talking to a fellow the other day, and I told him, the reason I play so many sounds, maybe it sounds angry, I'm trying so many things at one time. I haven't sorted them out." Listening to these 1960 concerts, we can only respond: long live confusion! © Marc Zisman/Qobuz
About the album
- 4 disc(s) - 23 track(s)
- Total length: 03:40:46
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Miles Davis John Coltrane
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Columbia - Legacy
- Genre: Jazz
This compilation (P) 2018 Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
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