Given the two versions of "What I Say," this music is probably from more than one
night. Fragment 5 picks up at the end of fragment 4 (not included on Jazz Masters),
which follows immediately after fragment 3.
Titles listed on Jazz Masters as:
- Inamorata (7:40) [= fifth fragment]
- Funky Tonk (33:41) [= first fragment]
- What I Say (13:04) [= second fragment]
- Inamorata (11:25) [third fragment]
John McLaughlin is sometimes wrongly listed among the musicians. Maybe this is based
on a confusion of this date with that of the Hill Auditorium performance (February
21, 1970), where McLaughlin did join the Davis Sextet for one night.
Prior to the stretch at Lennie's on the Turnpike, the Sextet was booked for one
night at Painter's Mill in Owings Mill MD (January 10: the show was canceled). They
were booked for three nights at The Quiet Knight in Chicago IL (February 21-23), for
one night at Fairfield University Gymnasium in Connecticut (February 27), and for
the following night at the University of Connecticut in Storrs. Around this time Davis
performed at Wesleyan University's McConaughey Hall with Jumma Santos taking the place
of Airto Moreira. In addition to the four nights at Lennie's (March 11-14), the Sextet
(with Moreira) played at the Memorial Student Union, University of Wisconsin-Madison
(March 18); Guthrie Theatre,
Minneapolis (March 19; two shows); The Scene, Washington DC (March 20-21) and
Constitution Hall, Washington DC (March 28), and four nights at the Gaslight Club in
Greenwich Village (April 8-11). Soon afterward the group headed west: Shrine Auditorium,
LA (April 23); Fresno City College Theatre (April 28); Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Vancouver
BC (April 30); Hollywood Bowl and Shelly's Manne-Hole, Los Angeles (dates unknown);
Fillmore West, San Francisco (May 6-9). It was during this tour of the west coast that
Jarrett and De Johnette recorded Ruta and Daitya (ECM 1021) in Sunset Studios,
Hollywood. Later in the summer the Sextet performed at the Newport Jazz Festival (July 5);
and the Beacon Theater, New York (July 20-21). During the summer De Johnette left the
Sextet to form his own group, Compost.
Thanks to William Day for sharing the March 19, 1971 program with me, and to Jan
Lohmann and John for help with Davis' itinerary in February.
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