THE COMPLETE LIVE IN PARIS VOL. I

1st edition limited to 3000 copies

68,00€

Record 1

All Blues

Softly, as in Morning Sunrise

Walkin'

Four

Record 2

Autumn Leaves

Makin' Whoopee

No Blues

The Theme

3000 Copies

The Return of the Prodigal Son

For the first ever, this legendary concert is been published in its entirety. The adventure began in 2022 with a visit to a tape recorder enthusiast in Brittany. It turned out that the latter had the missing part of this extraordinary recording. It took us almost two years across the south of France, the United States to finally find the other original tapes in... Stockholm.

We are proud and happy to present this first volume to you.

That 11 October, Davis was back in the city he loved so much, on the stage of the legendary Olympia concert hall where the likes of Edith Piaf, Charles Aznavour, Sydney Bechet, Ella Fitzgerald, Ray Charles and so many others had performed. The trumpeter had found his bearings again and was playing music completely concordant with his inspirations of the time.

Paris and Miles, Miles and Paris: a love story he summed up thus: “Early in 1949, I took a group to Paris. This was my first trip out of the country and it changed the way I looked at things forever. I loved being in Paris and loved the way I was treated … That’s where I met Jean-Paul Sartre and Pablo Picasso and Juliette Greco. I have never felt like that in my life since.”

That October night at the Olympia, the adulated Davis was back without Coltrane. The saxophone player now with the band was far better suited to Davis’s vision: the extraordinary Sonny Stitt, the “Lone Wolf”. Together with Jamaican pianist Wynton Kelly, whom Davis had hired in 1959, double bassist Paul Chambers, and drummer Jimmy Cobb, they formed a cohesive group brimming with musicality that featured an ideal blend of restrained strength and discreet intelligence.

Miles Davis, prodigal son, was back at the Olympia to rousing applause to give a concert that would go down in history.

Miles Davis, Trumpet
Sonny Stitt, Saxophone
Wynton Kelly, Piano
Paul Chambers, Bass
Jimmy Cobb, Drums

Recorded at the Olympia, Paris, France on October 11, 1960

Ref.: TLR-2404054V
33rpm Lacquer-cuts: Kevin Gray>
Photo: © Jean-Pierre Leloir
1st limited and numbered edition: 3000 copies
Tip-on Gatefold printed in Italy
Pressed by Simon Garcia, Marciac, France
MONO ℗ 1960 Europe 1, Private Collection
Remastered by ℗ & © 2024 THE LOST RECORDINGS from the original analog tapes

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- Phoenix Mastering™ restoration from original analog tapes
- Lacquer-Cuts by Kevin Gray
- 180g test-pressings approving in our studios
- New Stampers every 500 copies
- Slow pressing cycle
- Unequalled quality control in Europe
- New Tip-on gatefold printed in Italy
- Pressed by Simon Garcia, in France 🇫🇷

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MILES DAVIS QUINTET

THE COMPLETE LIVE IN PARIS VOL. I

The History of this Discovery

"It all started with a photo shot by a friend who was in Brittany visiting a tape recorder enthusiast. This gentleman, without knowing it, had been holding a treasure for decades: the missing part of the legendary concert of October 1960 at the Olympia by the Miles Davis Quintet. On the tape, it was noted Flamenco Sketches but it occurred to be an extraordinary and totally previously unreleased version of the famous All Blues. It took us almost two years to find the other original tapes, finally found in Stockholm..."

Frédéric D'ORIA-NICOLAS
Musical treasure seeker