Live in Zurich Review

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(More customer reviews)Following Miles in Paris (Laserlight) and Sweden (Dragon)recordings,from the same 1960 tour,this Swiss recording comes in an admirable third.The same set list dominates all recordings but on any given night things change.Miles is playing his usual sumptious self but Trane is already reaching for his new "sound".Reluctant to do this tour,he had already given his notice. As he was bored with the repetoire, he was searching for something different.This CONTRAST in their styles is fantastically mesmerizing (even more so in Paris).
If you dig the players,you will dig this recording.The sound isn't great,but decent.The earlier Bohemia recordings are "rougher" still,but still listenable.
DIG IT!!
Dr. Jeff (Radio Antenna Uno, Italy)

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The Miles Davis Quintet's 1960 European tour marked the end of the most dynamic front line partnership since Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker. This edition features the Quintet's complete April 8, 1960 performance at kongresshaus, in Zurich, Switzerland. This release aslo contains four bonus tracks TBA from a 1958 performance at New York's Cafe Bohemia feauring John Coltrane, Bill Evans, Paul Chambers and Philly Joe Jones. Gambit. 2005.

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Tour De Force Review

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(More customer reviews)"Tour De Force" finds Sonny Rollins playing some of his fastest and most forceful tenor saxophone. It is no surprise that Sonny is joined once again on the kit by Max Roach (with Kenny Drew and George Morrow also in the band), because few drummers could keep this pace going on the album's smokers, the aptly named "B. Swift," "B. Quick," and "Ee-ah," and the only slightly slower (normal hard bop speed) "Sonny Boy." "Tour" also features two tracks with vocals by Earl Coleman, the tender ballads "My Ideal" and "Two Different Worlds." While it's not "John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman" (even though this pre-dates 'Trane's session by five years), it's pretty good. However, the disparity between the "speed bop" and the ballads is so great, it causes "Tour De Force" to feel schizophrenic. There is great material here, but I only give it four stars because the album doesn't flow together very well.

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