COMPLETE 1960 EUROPEAN CONCERTS

4 CD DE-LUXE BOXSET - 24 PAGE BOOKLET!

All known live recordings by the fabulous Quincy Jones Big Band during its 1960 European tour. By then, the orchestra included such stars as Clark Terry, Benny Bailey, Phil Woods, Sahib Shihab, Quentin Jackson, Jimmy Cleveland and Les Spann. Recorded with excellent sound quality, this is the first time that all of this music appears on a single collection.

Although Quincy Jones was only 27-years old when he made these recordings (he is currently 77 at this writing), he was already a veteran musician with a lot of experience under his belt. Although he had recorded a few sides under his own name in both Stockholm in 1953 and New York in 1955, Quincy Jones’ first full album as a leader was This Is How I Feel About Jazz, recorded in September 1956. This was followed by My Fair Lady Loves Jazz and Go West, Man (both from 1957) as well as a bunch of 1959 sessions which saw light on many different albums and formats. (These March- June 1959 sessions produced the studio recordings of the arrangements heard here of “The Midnight Sun Will Never Set”, “Moanin’”, “I Remember Clifford”, “The Gypsy”, “Whisper Not”, “Tickle Toe”, and “Birth of a Band”.) Half of the tunes here appeared on the original album The Birth of a Band, while  almost all of the remaining tunes appeared a bit later on the sequel The Birth of a Band Volume 2, which had the same cover but in yellow instead of red. Due to the difficulties of maintaining a big band that Jones stated above, his big band featuring such superlative personnel couldn’t remain together long. Fortunately, the band was recorded. Besides the aforementioned 1959 sessions, it produced a couple of studio albums, beginning with the November 1959 LP The Great Wide World of Quincy Jones. Some of the many live concerts performed by the band in 1960 were also recorded, and all of them appear on this set, which contains every known live recording by this splendid band.

Personel:
QUINCY JONES, conductor
CLARK TERRY, BENNY BAILEY,
LEONARD JOHNSON, FLOYD STANDIFER, trumpet
PHIL WOODS, PORTER KILBERT, alto sax
BUDD JOHNSON, tenor sax
JEROME RICHARDSON, piccolo & tenor sax
SAHIB SHIHAB, baritone sax
JIMMY CLEVELAND, QUENTIN JACKSON,
MELBA LISTON, AKE PERSSON, trombone
JULIUS WATKINS, French horn
LES SPANN, guitar & flute
PATTI BOWN, piano
BUDDY CATLETT, bass
JOE HARRIS, drums

On CD3, Roger Guérin (tp) replaces Clark Terry. Omit Budd Johnson.
On CD4, Roger Guérin & Clyde Reasinger (tp) replace Clark Terry & Leonard Johnson.
Harold McNair (ts & fl) replaces Budd Johnson.
CD1, 1-7: L’Alhambra, Paris, France, February 14, 1960.
CD1, 8-14: Belgium, February, 1960.
CD2: Konserthus, Gothenburg, Sweden, February 16, 1960.
CD3: Municipal Theatre, Laussane, Switzerland, May 20, 1960.
CD4: Theatre de Beaulieu, Lausanne, Switzerland, June 27, 1960.

DISC ONE:
Total Time: 70:38
01 BIRTH OF A BAND 5:25
02 EVERYBODY’S BLUES
[aka THE PHANTOM’S BLUES] 8:53
03 MOANIN’ 3:42
04 TICKLE TOE 2:51
05 STOCKHOLM SWEETNIN’ 5:58
06 I REMEMBER CLIFFORD 3:32
07 WALKIN’ 16:28
08 BIRTH OF A BAND 3:36
09 MOANIN’ 3:11
10 LESTER LEAPS IN 3:42
11 THE GYPSY 4:11
12 TICKLE TOE 2:32
13 EVERYBODY’S BLUES
[aka THE PHANTOM’S BLUES] 3:21
14 BIG RED 3:16

DISC TWO:
Total Time: 59:46
01 Announcement by Olle Helander 2:58
02 MOANIN’ 3:30
03 TICKLE TOE 3:01
04 I REMEMBER CLIFFORD 3:45
05 WHISPER NOT 3:51
06 EVERYBODY’S BLUES
[aka THE PHANTOM’S BLUES] 11:09
07 BIRTH OF A BAND 4:20
08 THE GYPSY 4:37
09 GHANA 4:53
10 WALKIN’ 13:01
11 BIG RED 4:42

DISC THREE:
Total Time: 55:26
01 Announcement/BIRTH OF A BAND 4:03
02 I REMEMBER CLIFFORD 3:32
03 WALKIN’ 10:11
04 PARISIAN THOROUGHFARE 3:16
05 THE MIDNIGHT SUN WILL NEVER SET 4:40
06 EVERYBODY’S BLUES
[aka THE PHANTOM’S BLUES] 9:30
07 STOCKHOLM SWEETENIN’ 5:37
08 MY REVERIE 4:03
09 GHANA 4:25
10 BIG RED 6:10

DISC FOUR:
Total Time: 67:29
01 Announcement/CHEROKEE 4:04
02 CHINESE CHECKERS 4:11
03 BIRTH OF A BAND 4:12
04 I REMEMBER CLIFFORD 4:45
05 BIG RED 4:59
06 MY REVERIE 4:02
07 PARISIAN THOROUGHFARE 4:07
08 MOANIN’ 3:18
09 SOUL 6:42
10 THE MIDNIGHT SUN WILL NEVER SET 5:08
11 EVERYBODY’S BLUES
[aka THE PHANTOM’S BLUES] 11:36
12 AIRMAIL SPECIAL 3:34
13 AIRMAIL SPECIAL [encore] 1:56