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The BJ Tape
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JATP All Stars
From Fuji the venue is porbably: Rheinhalle
Dusseldorf, Germany

3-28-60

This date is probably correct - previously dated Apr 1, 1960
- This is in Trane discographical history usually given as 1 April (a wrong date 4 April also circulates), with the JATP circus being in Munich on 28 March. But the editorial team of Fuji II confirms this date (priv comm)

The linege of this tape is described as
RB?>?>CD-R
described as "Probably FM-Sbd"
to which you may add
>EAC secure mode>flac frontend level 7 ASB verify


The set info I got with this was somewhat confused:
John Coltrane,ts Stan Getz,ts[t4-5]
Wynton Kelly,p[t1-4] Oscar Peterson,p[t5]
Paul Chambers,b Jimmy Cobb,dr

tr 1 1) On Green Dolphin Street 9:08 >
tr 2 2) Walkin' [set list timing 7:30] > The Theme ...10:41

The track numbers here does not correspond to the track indices of the disc - which I have retained as they were.

These first two indices (t1-3 in the numbering above) forms the known contributions of the Miles Davis Quintet to the 1960 JATP tour in Dusseldorf - but Miles was sick that day - hence it has been denoted as the "John Coltrane quartet" performing this day in Düsseldorf.
The sonic upgrade these represent from the circulating tapes is substantial.

[Original set list notes a
3) Blues (W.K. Trio) 3:22
This is evidently a reference to The Theme signature included under track 2]

Track 3: 4) JATP Feature Ballad Medley: [noted as 8:40]
[Described as
Don't Explain (PC,feat)/2:42/Autumn Leaves (WK,feat)/4:45/What's New (JC,feat)/6:45/Autumn In New York[but is actually Moonlight in Vermont] (SG,feat.)]/8:50/
(splice @ 09:00 with Rifftide)
(my timing of transitions)

5) > Rifftide 8:23 - /TT track 3 17:13

Now, this was new to me at the time - and new to all Trane discographies AFAIK
- whatr seemd as a 17 min ballad medley with the same rhythm section I think with Stan added to Trane. So here we actually have an occasion where Trane and Stan actually are taped in action together...!I wrote this on the very first listening & I thought this was a 17 min medley - it is one track - evidently corresponding to no 4 & 5 in the personnel list. Closer inspection shows that there is a splice at 9:00 - that it's actually two separate items - and hence that the Coltrane/Getz quintet title denoted Rifftide that follows is an item on its own.

There's some fascinating exchanges between the two reeds in this - the first part no 4, being Norman Grantz style Feature Medley has of course no interaction.

Wynton's fingering at the end(?) of the actual medley no 4, and just before the splice suggests there is more here - this has the character of intro - not outtro! But this is something that has not emerged yet. We mawy hope....

The set list notes a change of pianist in Rifftide: Oscar Peterson replaces Wynton Kelly. I cannot recognise him from the playing (I haven't actually listened to him for some 20-odd years) - the piano playing is strikingly Garland'ish in spots! (AFAIR that COULD strengthen the OP info - didn't he pick up quite a lot of Red G at this stage?). Oscar Peterson has later been confirmed to me as the pianist here.

This is now the ONLY occasion documented of Stan and Trane together. Now a crucial question is of course, given the nature of these JATP tours in Europe:

* Was this playing together of Trane and Stan special for the Düsseldorf concert (as a compensation for Miles' sick leave perhaps?)
Or
* Was this done at other times on this 1960 JATP tour.

The rest of the tape is Stan Getz Quartet, described as
in the info as

Stan Getz,ts Lou Levy,p
Ray Brown,b Ed Thigpen,dr

playing

Tr 4 6) Out of Nowhere 10:21 >
tr 5 7) The Thrill Is Gone
tr 6 8) (appl fade in) Out of Nowhere 9:10 >
tr 7 9) Woody'n You 7:42 (appl fade out/in)
tr 8 10) ?? 7:56

on the same date (March 28, 1960)

But note that there are two versions of Out of Nowhere here. This suggests that actually two nights are documented here.
I don't know Lou Levy - though I know he played with Stan in the late 50's - and I'm not into Stan-ology,
But I thought Stan brought Jan Johansson (the Swede* who played a lot at Montmartre in Copenhagen and with Stan around this time) with him from Copenhagen and Sweden for the JATP tour in 1960. This original assertion of mine was later confirmed by David Wild - it is indeed Jan Johansson.

On my question of where this tape comes from, my source answered:

"I don't really know much more than the setlist info. I think they are
SBD recordings or FM broadcast (no announcer?) I [received] the JATP sets
that I have from 2 different traders and that's all the info they sent"

Overall they are wonderful sets - could even be from the NG "vaults" for all I know. But AFAICS they are not part of any JATP issues.

*If you don't know him (he died in a car crash in 1968) you have missed something REALLY important. All his records are available as CDs - they're ALL worth getting - none mentioned is none forgotten - as we say in Norwegian)