Session details: Steve Allen Playhouse (September 10, 1964)

Miles Ahead session details

September 10, 1964 (3 items; TT = 11:04)

Steve Allen Playhouse, Hollywood CA

Westinghouse TV broadcast (C)

Show chatter

Miles Davis (tpt); Wayne Shorter (ts); Herbie Hancock (p); Ron Carter (b); Tony Williams (d); Steve Allen (ann)

1	Introduction (Phil Daley, Steve Allen)	1:28
	Phil Daley introduces Steve Allen, Debbie Reynolds, and guests (0:50); Allen begins: "Thank you, thank you very much. Well, sir, there's a saying in show business, well there are millions of sayings in show business, one that... I can't even use two or three of them on the air, but one of them that relates to this program is that Miles Davis will not do television... Debbie Reynolds will, so we have Debbie with us a little bit later, and, uh, the thing however that's most newsworthy in this particular instance is that even though this is still probably going to be true down the century that Miles Davis will never appear on television, somehow, by some magic he is here tonight. So let's put him right to work. The great Miles Davis..."
2	No Blues (M. Davis)	9:26
3	Announcement (Steve Allen)	0:10
	"Miles Davis Quintet... Debbie Reynolds will be along in just a few seconds. C'mon right back."


1 Introduction (Phil Daley, Steve Allen) Video: TV broadcast (Steve Allen Playhouse)
2 No Blues 12" LP: Teppa 76 Video: TV broadcast (Steve Allen Playhouse)
3 Announcement (Steve Allen) Video: TV broadcast (Steve Allen Playhouse)

This is the probably the earliest extant recording of Wayne Shorter with the Davis Quintet. Shorter joined the Quintet in Los Angeles on September 4, and they performed at the seventh annual Monterey Jazz Festival on Friday, September 18.

These performances were broadcast on The Steve Allen Playhouse. Installments of the show were pre-recorded. According to the UCLA Film Archive, the show with Debbie Reynolds (and "No Blues") was recorded on September 10 and broadcast on September 22; the show with Burt Lancaster (and "So What" and "All Blues") was recorded on September 11 and broadcast on September 25.

From June 1962 through October 1964, Allen produced his own Tonight Show-style talk and variety show; it was sponsored by Westinghouse and was informally known as the Westinghouse Show. Episodes were taped at the Vine Street Theatre in Hollywood (an old vaudeville venue located at 1615-29 N. Vine Street).