1990 Tour Dates
These dates come from the ‘office copy’ of the band’s calendar, as well as a road itinerary from the fall of 1990.
1990
1/1 Rehearsal
1/2 – 7 Hollywood, CA Catalina Bar & Grill (Tour begins)
1/8 – 10 Off
1/11 Fly to New Orleans, LA
1/12 New Orleans, LA NAJE Convention
1/13 New Orleans, LA Storyville Jazz Hall
Blue Birdland
Night in Tunisia Mellow Tone
Fox Hunt
Glen’s Den
But Beautiful Hit and Run
Birdland
Set 2
Blue Birdland (full)
Night in Tunisia
Mellow tone
1/14 Travel Day
1/15 Troy, AL Smith Hall Auditorium
1/16 Fairhope, AL Fairhope Civic Center
1/17 Dothan, AL Wallace College
1/18 Melbourne, FL Palm Bay Auditorium
1/19 – 21 Off
1/22 North Ft. Myers, FL N. Ft. Myers Auditorium
1/23 Marathon, FL Hawkes Key Resort
1/24 St. Petersburg, FL Mahaffey Theatre
1/25 Savannah, GA Congress Street Station
1/26 Travel Day
1/27 Atlanta, GA Sounds of Buckhead
1/28 Off
1/29 Travel Day
1/30 Winston Salem, NC Reynold Auditorium
1/31 Knoxville, TN Ella Gurus
2/1 Travel Day
2/2 Newtown Square, PA Marple Newtown High School
2/3 Staten Island, NY Snug Harbor
2/4 Travel Day
2/5 Taylor Mill, KY Scott High School
Blue Birdland
A Night In Tunisia
In A Mellow Tone
The Fox Hunt
Glenn’s Den
Birdland
Blue Birdland
Hit And Run
But Beautiful
MF Hit Medley
Blue Birdland
Gonna Fly Now
Blue Birdland
2/6 Quincy, IL Starlight Casino
2/7 Boone, IA Boone High School
2/8 – 9 Wichita, KS Roxy’s Downtown
2/10 Sioux City, IA Morningside College
2/11 Mankato, MN Mankato State University (Tour ends)
2/12 Fly home
2/13 – 3/7 Vacation
3/8 – 9 Rehearsals
3/10 Imperial, CA California Midwinter Fairgrounds
3/11 Los Angeles, CA Coconut Grove
3/12 Off
3/13 Rancho Cordova, CA Garbeau’s Dinner Theater
3/14 Travel Day
3/15 Upland, CA Upland High School
3/16 Hanford, CA Fox Theatre
3/17 San Clemente, CA Hamptons
3/18 Westlake, CA Westlake High School
3/19 Travel Day
3/20 – 24 NY, NY The Blue Note
3/25 – 6 Off
3/27 State College, PA State College Area Senior High School
3/28 Marion Center, PA Marion Centre High School
3/29 Travel Day
3/30 – 31 Buffalo, NY The Marque
4/1 Newington, CT Newington High School
Blue Birdland
A Night in Tunisia
In a Mellow Tone
The Fox Hunt
Glenn’s Den
Birdland
Hit and Run
St. Thomas
MF Hit Medley
Rocky
4/2 Jacksonville, FL Jacksonville University
4/3 Sidney, NY Sidney Auditorium
4/4 Travel Day
4/5 Walkersville, MD Walkersville High School
4/6 Glenelg, MD Glenelg High School
4/7 Wilkes Barre, PA Meyers High School
4/8 West Orange, NJ YMHA
4/9 Portland, ME Zoot’s
4/10 Travel Day
4/11 Caribou, ME Caribou Performing Arts Center
4/12 Beverly, MA Beverly High School
4/13 Fly home
4/14 – 20 Vacation
4/21 Fly out
4/22 Villanova, PA Villanova University
4/23 Erie, PA McDowell Intermediate High School
4/24 Columbus, OH East High School
4/25 Travel Day
4/26 North Canton, OH Hoover High School
4/27 Clayton, OH Northwest High School
4/28 Ft. Wayne, IN
Partial recording?
MF Hit Medley
Rocky
4/29 Travel Day
4/30 Chattanooga, TN Tyner High School
5/1 Off
5/2 Ballwin, MO Parkway South High School
5/3 Ballwin, MO Parkway South High School (MF solo)
5/4 Kewanee, IL Kewanee High School
5/5 Woodstock, IL Woodstock Opera House
5/6 Glen Ellyn, IL Glenbard High School
5/7 Travel Day
5/8 Marion, IN Eastbrook High School
5/9 Marion, IL Marion Civic Center
5/10 Travel Day
5/11 Battle Creek, MI McCamly Place
5/12 Indianapolis, IN Walker Theatre (2 shows, first one was sparsely attended)
5/13 Off
5/14 Travel Day
5/15 Morris, OK Morris High School
5/16 Oklahoma City, OK Little Apple Jazz Club
5/17 – 19 Ft. Worth, TX Caravan of Dreams (per Gary Early) 5/19 TICKET
Recording exists from one of these dates, Includes –
Night in Tunisia
Mellow Tone
Glenn’s Den
But Beautiful
Birdland
5/20 – 29 Off
5/30 Fly in
5/31 Tempe, AZ Chuy’s
6/1 Las Vegas, NV The Show Club
6/2 San Bernardino, CA University of California
6/3 San Francisco, CA Great American Music Hall
6/4 – 10 Off
6/11 Big Band flies in, Rehearsal
6/12- 15 Rehearsals
6/16 Off
6/17 Agoura Hills, CA Sumac Park
6/18 Fly in
6/19 Somerville, MA Johnny D’s
Blue Birdland
A Night in Tunisia
In a Mellow Tone
Cruisin’ for a Bluesin’
But Beautiful
Birdland
Set 2
Hit and Run
Blue Birdland
Rhythm Method
Glenn’s Den
The Fox Hunt
St. Thomas
My One and Only Love
6/20 Travel Day
6/21 Quebec City, Quebec, Canada Place d’Young
6/22 Worchester, MA El Morocco
Night in Tunisia
Mellow tone
Cruisin’
But Beautiful
Birdland
St Thomas
My One and Only Love
Fox Hunt
Rhythm Method
Rocky
6/23 Rochester, NY Manhattan Park Square
6/24 Mt. Pocono, PA Caesar’s Paradise Stream
6/25 Washington, DC Blues Alley
6/26 Travel Day
6/27 Chicago, IL Cubby Bear
6/28 Muskegon, MI Frauenthal Theatre
6/29 Detroit, MI Pontchartrain Hotel
6/30 Montreal, Quebec, Canada Place des Arts, Montreal Jazz Festival
7/1 Milwaukee, WI Summerfest
7/2 Fly to London, England
7/3 Off
7/4 Folkstone, UK Lea’s Cliff Hall
7/5 Glasgow, Scotland Theatre Royal
Set I
Blue Birdland
In a Mellow Tone
Cruisin’ for a Bluesin’
But Beautiful
Rhythm Method
interval interview
Set II
St. Thomas
Glenn’s Den
Hit and Run
Birdland
7/6 Off
7/7 Imatra, Finland Imatra Festival
7/8 Fly in
7/9 Birmingham, UK Alexandra Theatre
Blue Birdland
A Night in Tunisia
In a Mellow Tone
Cruisin’ for a Bluesin’
But Beautiful
Glenn’s Den
The Fox Hunt
Birdland
7/10 – 12 Off
7/13 The Hague, Holland North Sea Jazz Festival
Blue Birdland
A Night in Tunisia
In a Mellowtone
Cruisin’ for a Bluesin’
My One and Only Love
Glenn’s Den
Hit and Run
Birdland
7/14 Vienna, Austria Weisen Jazz Festival
7/15 Wigan, UK Wigan Jazz Festival
7/16 Fly in
7/17 London, England Ronnie Scott’s Club
7/18 London, England Ronnie Scott’s Club
Exact date of this set unknown
(several tracks used on ‘Live From London’)
Blue Birdland
A Night in Tunisia
In a Mellow Tone
Cruisin’ For a Bluesin’
My One and Only Love
Hit and Run St.
Thomas
The Fox Hunt
7/19 London, England Ronnie Scott’s Club
7/20 London, England Ronnie Scott’s Club
7/21 London, England Ronnie Scott’s Club
Blue Birdland
A Night in Tunisia
In a Mellow Tone
Cruisin’ for a Bluesin’
St. Thomas (partial)
Glenn’s Den
But Beautiful
Rhythm Method
Close the Deal
7/22 Fly home
7/23 – 9/13 Vacation
9/14 MF and Ed Sargent fly to Minnesota
9/15 Minneapolis, MN University of Minnesota (MF solo)
9/16 – 17 Off
9/18 Band flies in
9/19 – 20 Minneapolis, MN Women’s Club, rehearsal
9/21 Fly to Japan
9/22 Arrive in Japan
9/23 – 29 Osaka, Japan The Blue Note (Tour begins)
9/30 Off
10/1 – 6 Tokyo, Japan The Blue Note (recording, exists from this tour, exact date unknown)
10/7 – 8 Fly home
10/9 Chula Vista, CA Chula Vista High School
10/10 Riverside, CA Ramona High School
10/11 Salano Beach, CA Belly-Up Tavern
10/12 Palo Alto, CA Spanenburg Theatre
10/13 San Francisco, CA Great American Music Hall
10/14 Off
10/15 Mt. Vernon, WA Skagit Valley College
10/16 Athena, OR Weston-McEwen High School
10/17 Twin Falls, ID Twin Falls High School
10/18 Travel Day
10/19 Delta, CO Delta High School
10/20 Boulder, CO University of Colorado
10/21 Durango, CO Abbey Square Theatre
10/22 Silver City, NM Western New Mexico University
10/23 Travel Day
10/24 San Angelo, TX Angelo State University
10/25 Ft. Worth, TX Texas Christian University
10/26 Beaumont, TX Lamar University
10/27 Travel Day
10/28 Off
10/29 Brewton, AL W.S. Neal High School
10/30 Marietta, GA Pope High School
10/31 Off
11/1 Augusta, GA Augusta College
11/2 Hilton Head, SC The Old Post Office
11/3 Charlotte, NC Spirit Square Performing Arts Center
11/4 Travel Day
11/5 Philadelphia, PA The Aztec Club
11/6 – 7 Off
11/8 East Greenbush, NY Columbia High School
11/9 Upper Darby, PA Upper Darby High School
11/10 Travel Day
11/11 Louisville, KY Bellarmine University
11/12 Travel Day
11/13 Searcy, AR Harding University
11/14 Oklahoma City, OK Little Apple Jazz Club
11/15 Travel Day
11/16 Indianapolis, IN Convention Center
(Thousands of marching band students in attendance after performing at the state finals in the Hoosier Dome)
Blue Birdland
A Night in Tunisia
In a Mellow Tone
Glenn’s Den
The Fox Hunt
St. Thomas
MF Hit Medley
Rocky
11/17 Warsaw, IN Wagon Wheel Playhouse
11/18 Romeoville, IL Romeoville High School
11/19 Warren, MI Lincoln High School
11/20 Off
11/21 – 25 Chicago, IL Jazz Showcase, Blackstone Hotel
11/26 Off
11/27 La Crosse, WI Viterbo College
11/28 Eau Clair, WI Eau Claire Memorial High School
11/29 Off
11/30 Neenah, WI Armstrong High School
12/1 Grand Rapids, MN Grand Rapids High School (Tour ends)
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