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Miles Davis Quintet
02-16-1957
Peacock Alley Lounge
St. Louis, Missouri

Project ID - 20

Source: FM Broadcast
Lineage: KSTL-AM radio broadcast > Unknown Transfer(s) > ? > wav? > flac

Miles Davis (tpt); John Coltrane (ts); William "Red" Garland (p); Paul Chambers (b);
Philly Joe Jones (d); Spider Burks (ann)

disc 1

d1t01. Introduction
d1t02. Ah-Leu-Cha
d1t03. A Foggy Day
d1t04. All of You
d1t05. Woody 'n' You
d1t06. Walkin'
d1t07. The Theme/

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Notes:

- A very good performance from the earliest incarnation of the
"Classic Quintet", this show is often found on bootlegs paired with
the Peacock Alley performance from the following week. Recorded
from AM radio, the sound is very "thin" and band-limited, with most
of the frequency content restricted from about 250 Hz-3 KHz.

- The original incorrect flac tags for this show were corrected.

- The Peacock Alley KSTL-AM recordings, md1957-02-16.fm.LL20
contains occasional to sometimes numerous clustered low-frequency "pops". The first of
these can be heard in md1957-02-16.LL20.d1t01 at 0:01.060-0:01.080 amidst the nearby
virtual silence. The source of these brief muffled "thumps" could be
in the original broadcast recording, or perhaps more likely are the
remnants of vinyl-sourced popping and clicking in the lineage after
crude de-clicking or simple low-pass filtering was applied.

-d1t03. Is played by the "Rhythm Section" of the quartet, minus Miles
Davis and John Coltrane.

- d1t07. Contains the announcer sign-off followed by "The Theme", which fades
out at the end. Otherwise all music is complete, although there are cuts
between tracks where some of the announcer comments are missing.

- Track d1t07 most often circulates mistakenly with the 1957-02-23 show.
Peter Losin notes:

"For some reason most of the concluding announcement (0:42) and the concluding
fragment of "The Theme" (0:37) appear at the end of the Soulard CD, after the
February 23 material; but they clearly belong here." - Peter Losin

- "It is also clear that this version of "The Theme" belongs with this show
since the 1957-02-23 show already has its own version of "The Theme".
Our versions followed this error and what is presented here is the corrected
show tracks in the correct order and date that they were originally
broadcast." - Peter Losin

- "The Soulard CD lists the date for this performance as July 14, 1956,
but this seems to be wrong. Spider Burks was fired by KXLW-AM on July 11, 1956,
two days before the Davis Quintet opened a nine-day gig at
Peacock Alley (July 13-21, Friday-Saturday). He was hired by KSTL-AM in
August 1956 and quickly began live Saturday matinee broadcasts from Peacock
Alley. The Davis Quintet returned to Peacock Alley in February 1957 for a
nine-day gig (February 15-23, Friday-Saturday). In all likelihood, then,
the Soulard material comes from broadcasts on February 16 and 23, and the
correct station is KSTL-AM. Many thanks to Chris DeVito for careful
research here." - Peter Losin

- Thank you to Peter Losin for his original contributions and research on this show,
please see: http://www.plosin.com/

- QC done by Guygee

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