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They’d been performing together—and making jazz history—ever since "Kind of Blue": Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers and Jimmy Cobb. That redoubtable quintet are heard here on their spring 1960 Jazz at the Philharmonic European Tour, beginning with—on 140-gram vinyl (with download code)—their March 24 show in Copenhagen: "Introduction," "So What," "On Green Dolphin St. Pts. 1 & 2," "All Blues" and "The Theme" (incomplete). The 4-CD set brings you that concert plus Olympia Theatre, Paris (3/21) and Koncerthuset, Stockholm (3/22), which feature the aforementioned compositions as well as "All of You," "Walkin’," "Bye Bye Blackbird," "Oleo," "’Round Midnight" and "Fran Dance" plus a Coltrane interview. Originally broadcast on European radio, these performances have never been commercially available before; as it says in Ashley Kahn’s eloquent liner notes, it’s the "swinging, divergent energy" of this brilliant band that draws such a powerful response from the crowds heard on these recordings and from listeners today. A lost, electrifying piece of jazz history returns! Legacy/Columbia.