1957 Nov-Dec - Europe

Disco1957 Nov-Dec - Europe
Year1957
Venue
Date
NotesSource: www.dimeadozen.org #513832
Original folder names:
Miles Davis - Nov-Dec 1957 - Europe FLAC
1957-11-30 Olympia Theatre, Paris (France) [SBD]
1957-12-07 ORTF Studios, Paris
1957-12-18 Beethovensaal, Stuttgart
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Having just shared the upgrade to the Amsterdam concert (Dec 8th), here's the remaining stuff I have of Miles from Nov/Dec '57 that isn't officially released.

I've had a go at cleaning up the recordings, Nov 30th needing particular work.

November 30, 1957 Olympia Theatre, Paris René Urtreger Quartet with Miles Davis
December 7, 1957 ORTF Studios, Paris René Urtreger Quartet with Miles Davis
December 18, 1957 Beethovensaal, Stuttgart Erwin Lehn Orchestra with Miles Davis

They all stem from CDRs that were extracted onto a hard drive several years ago, so the best convoluted lineage I can give is CDR>EAC secure rip>work in Audition, Audacity and/or Izotope RX3 > FLAC

Here's the track info from Losin with my own notes on restoration:

November 30, 1957 Olympia Theatre, Paris René Urtreger Quartet with Miles Davis
René Urtreger Quartet with Miles Davis
November 30, 1957
Olympia Theatre, Paris (France)
ORTF radio broadcast (complete)

Miles Davis (tpt);
Barney Wilen (ts);
René Urtreger (p);
Pierre Michelot (b);
Kenny Clarke (d)

1 - Bags' Groove (M. Jackson) 6:53
2 - Tune Up (M. Davis) 4:17
3 - Four (M. Davis) 5:57
4 - Walkin' (R. Carpenter) 7:26
5 - No Moe (S. Rollins) 7:20
6 - 'Round Midnight (T. Monk) 5:12

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Workflow: Audacity - set up track markers, adjusted speed. Right hand channel was 9 samples ahead of left. Removed these and suddenly a more balanced mono sound appeared!

Audition:
1,2 - removed whistle at 3300Hz
4 - lowered whistle at 5900Hz
5 - reduced 3110Hz buzz
6 - reduced whsitle at 3020Hz and 6000Hz

RX3: Left hand volume down 4db on all but final track.
Worked through removing whistle slightly more in areas, on track one in particular.
Listened through and declicked/crackled where appropriate. Many are left intact as they're either not intrusive or too much a part of the music to remove.

Two digital artefacts were found and removed.

Levels double checked - Round Midnight brought into line with other tracks (was louder). Exported as individual flacs from Audacity.

Sept. 2013

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December 7, 1957 (1 item; TT = 3:38)
ORTF Studios, Paris (France)
ORTF TV broadcast (C+)
René Urtreger Quartet with Miles Davis

Miles Davis (tpt); Barney Wilen (ts); René Urtreger (p); Pierre Michelot (b); Kenny Clarke (d)

1 Lady Bird (T. Dameron) 3:38


1 Lady Bird
CD: Rare Live Records RLR 88665

This item was recorded for a December 25, 1957 television broadcast from ORTF, Au clair de la lune. Besides Miles Davis, the 20-minute show featured at least four other artists, including Juliette Gréco. There are photographs in the ORTF archives (two of which are published in the December 2009 issue of Jazz Magazine) in which the Davis/Urtreger group is playing in front of television cameras, in the midst of a fake lunar landscape: Davis, Michelot, and Clarke in one crater, Urtreger and Wilen in another. These photos are dated December 7, 1957, so this may be the recording date. Thanks to Pascal Rozat for sharing with me the results of his research in the ORTF archives.

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Present here are 1,2 and 6



December 18, 1957 (6 items; TT = 13:27)
Beethovensaal, Stuttgart (Germany)
Süddeutscher Rundfunk (SDR) TV broadcast (B-)
Erwin Lehn Orchestra with Miles Davis

Miles Davis (tpt); Horst Jankowski (p); Peter Witte (b); Hermann Mutschler (d)

1 Yesterdays (J. Kern-O. Harbach) 2:36
Splice in Davis solo at 0:50

2 'Round Midnight (B. Hanighen-C. Williams-T. Monk) 4:45

3 Walkin' (rehearsal) (R. Carpenter) 0:55
With voiceover: Unknown announcer (0:06-0:21), René Urtreger's wife talking about Davis's 1957 visit to Europe (0:21-0:55)

4 Walkin' (fragment) (R. Carpenter) 1:56
With voiceover: Mrs. Urtreger continues (1:35-1:56)

5 Walkin' (fragment) (R. Carpenter) 0:58
With voiceover: Unknown announcer (0:53-0:58)

6 Walkin' (incomplete) (R. Carpenter) 2:17




1 Yesterdays
CD: Jazz Unlimited JUCD 2050, Storyville STA 130467
2 'Round Midnight
CD: Jazz Unlimited JUCD 2050, Storyville STA 130467
3 Walkin' (rehearsal)
Video: Treffpunkt Jazz
4 Walkin' (fragment)
Video: Treffpunkt Jazz
5 Walkin' (fragment)
Video: Treffpunkt Jazz
6 Walkin' (incomplete)
CD: Jazz Unlimited JUCD 2050, Storyville STA 130467


Looks evidently as though this is from the CD sources only.
MediaFLAC
Live1
Incomplete0
ALBW0
Compilation0
nVol344