This concert comes three months after The Miles Davis Quintet in Tokyo from 14 July 1964 with Sam Rivers on tenor sax, who would be replaced two months later by Wayne Shorter. So after a period when tenor saxophonists came and went after the departure of John Coltrane in 1960, a period of stability and consolidation would follow and whose legacy is some of the finest jazz ever recorded by a small jazz ensemble. Shorter joined the band at the Hollywood Bowl in mid-September and on the 25th of the month they opened a tour of Europe in Berlin, released by Columbia as Miles Davis Quintet in Berlin, then playing Paris on 1 October, Stockholm on 3 October and this Copenhagen concert on 4 October. The repertoire is essentially what had been sustaining the quintet for some while, staples with which Davis and his audiences had become familiar. So here we have ‘Autumn Leaves’, ‘So What’, ‘Stella by Starlight’, ‘Walkin’’, ‘All of You’ and ‘Joshua’ – the latter by British pianist/percussionist Victor Feldman from Davis' Seven Steps to Heaven album from the previous year with its sophisticated A-B-A-C form that would become a benchmark that sorted the men from the boys. What is on offer here is the promise of things to come; while the rhythm section play exceptionally well and Shorter seems to have effortlessly adapted to the band in a matter of days, this was not yet the group that would claim jazz immortality in the years that followed. That would begin to be realised when they returned from Europe to begin working on a new studio album, recorded twelve weeks later, called E.S.P.