1968 Tour Dates
The 1968 dates come from Ernie Garside’s handwritten calendars. Additional dates were added after reviewing the notes on the MF Lost Tapes series.
Interview with Ernie Garside: https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/maynardfergusonboard/my-interview-with-ernie-garside-t3060.html
January 1968
1/13 Simon Dee TV Show – MF Orch
1/15 Cologne, Germany – MF & Kurt Edelhagen Orch
1/16 Cologne, Germany – MF & Kurt Edelhagen Orch
1/17 Cologne, Germany – MF & Kurt Edelhagen Orch
1/18 Cologne, Germany – MF & Kurt Edelhagen Orch
1/19 Cologne, Germany – MF & Kurt Edelhagen Orch
1/20 Cologne, Germany – MF & Kurt Edelhagen Orch
1/21 Cologne, Germany – MF & Kurt Edelhagen Orch
1/22 Cologne, Germany – MF & Kurt Edelhagen Orch
1/23 Cologne, Germany – MF & Kurt Edelhagen Orch
1/24 Cologne, Germany – MF & Kurt Edelhagen Orch
1/25 Cologne, Germany – MF & Kurt Edelhagen Orch https://youtu.be/yzdWTM7U0V0 (exact date unknown)
1/26 Hilversum, Holland
1/27 Shepherd’s Bush, London – Rolf Harris Show 10:30 am
February
2/2 Manchester – Club 43 – MF Orch (EG calendar & Lost Tapes CD #4)
2/3 Manchester – Club 43 – MF Orch
2/16 Manchester – Club 43 – MF Orch (per Lost Tapes CD #2)
2/17 Simon Dee TV Show – MF Orch
2/18 London – Bull’s Head Barnes – MF Solo
2/23 Burslem – George Hotel – MF & Band
March
3/14 Manchester – Club 43 – MF Orch
3/15 Manchester – Club 43 – MF Orch
3/16 Manchester – Club 43 – MF Orch
3/18 Lyon, France – MF Solo
3/20 Redcar, UK – MF & Band
3/31 London – 100 Club – MF Orch
April
4/3 Hilversum, Holland – TV
4/4 Hilversum, Holland – Radio
4/9 Manchester – Club 43 – MF Orch (per Lost Tapes CD #4)
4/12 Manchester – Club 43 – MF Orch
4/13 Manchester – Club 43 – MF Orch
4/14 Manchester – Club 43 – MF Orch
4/20 Newcastle – MF Band
4/21 Glasgow
4/23 Baden – Baden – MF Band
4/24 BBC Radio One Jazz Club “All Star” https://youtu.be/b2TK5M1hzEc
Take the A-Train
And We Listened to Him
Alfie
Italian Suite
Go East Young Man
4/25 Birmingham – Opposite Lock – MF Band
May
5/3 Burslem (George Hotel?) – MF Band
5/7 Copenhagen, Denmark – MF Solo with Danish Radio Orchestra
5/8 Copenhagen, Denmark – MF Solo with Danish Radio Orchestra
5/9 Copenhagen, Denmark – MF Solo with Danish Radio Orchestra
5/12 Copenhagen, Denmark. – Concert – – American Jazzmen in Europe LP. Vantage records (includes one track, ‘And We Listened’, from this concert)
513 Ernie Garside finished at Club 43, Manchester
5/17 Leave for Sweden
5/18 Sweden – MF & Band
5/19 Sweden – MF & Band
5/20 Sweden – MF & Band
5/21 Sweden – MF & Band
5/22 Sweden – MF & Band
5/23 Sweden – MF & Band
5/24 Sweden – MF & Band
5/25 Sweden – MF & Band
5/26 Sweden – MF & Band
5/27 Sweden – MF & Band
5/28 Sweden – MF & Band
5/29 Sweden – MF & Band
5/30 Sweden – MF & Band
5/31 Sweden – MF & Band
June
6/1 Sweden – MF & Band
6/2 Sweden – MF & Band
6/3 Sweden – MF & Band
July
7/21 Cambridge – Jazz Festival – MF & Band (3 to 4 pm, 8 to 9 pm)
7/26 Manchester – Club 43 – MF Orch
7/27 Manchester – Club 43 – MF Orch
7/28 Manchester – Club 43 – MF Orch
August
8/24 Manchester – Club 43 – MF Orch
8/25 Belgium
8/26 Cologne, Germany Kurt Edelhegen Orch (MF Solo)
8/29 Cologne, Germany Kurt Edelhegen Orch (MF Solo)
8/30 Cologne, Germany Kurt Edelhegen Orch (MF Solo)
8/31 Cologne, Germany Kurt Edelhegen Orch (MF Solo)
September
9/1 Manchester – Club 43 – MF Orch
9/3 Bognor Regis – MF Orch
9/4 BBC Jazz Club – MF Orch
9/15 London – Bull’s Head Barnes – MF Solo
9/27 Southhampton – Bassett– MF Band
Unknown Date: this broadcast
(MF mentions they are at the Playhouse Theater in Manchester. Description at Youtube says ’69, but personnel matches late 1968.
See Lost Tapes Vol 2.)
October
10/2 Birmingham -Opposite Lock – MF Band
10/4 Manchester – Club 43 – MF Orch
10/5 Manchester – Club 43 – MF Orch
10/6 Manchester – Club 43 – MF Orch
10/13 Bristol – MF Band (possibly also 10/11 and 10/12?)
10/14 Warsaw
10/20 London – Bull’s Head Barnes – MF Solo
10/28 Dublin, Ireland – MF w/ Jim Farley Orch
November
11/3 to 11/6 Berlin & Czechoslavakia (dates are bracketed)
11/7 to 11/9 Berlin (dates are bracketed; MF is notated for 11/9)
11/12 CBS discussion w/ Keith Mansfield
11/14 Stoke-on-Trent? MF & Band
11/15 to 11/17 Manchester – Club 43 – MF Orch (event has a question mark)
- There is also a Manchester recording session in November described in Lost Tapes vol 2
11/16 Possibly Bristol – Granary Club – Ted Cowell, mgr (event is crossed out)
11/18 Brian & Ernie Garside – Bolton11/19 Prague – MF Solo w/ Gustov Brom Orch
11/20 Prague – MF Solo w/ Gustov Brom Orch
11/21 Prague – MF Solo w/ Gustov Brom Orch
11/22 Prague – MF Solo w/ Gustov Brom Orch
https://youtu.be/cfEMNwWPGhw (exact date unknown, also see 12/15)
11/23 Durham – MF Band
11/24 Leave for Dublin
11/25 Dublin, Ireland – TV, MF w/ Jim Farley Quartet
11/26 Dublin, Ireland – Radio w/ Farley (tracks appear on Lost Tapes CD #1)
11/30 Woodord – Dance w/ MF Band
December
12/2 Rotherdam, England – MF Band
12/4 Olympic Studio, 117 Church Rd, Barnes – MF records Ballad Style – 7 to 10 pm
12/5 Olympic Studio, 117 Church Rd, Barnes – MF records Ballad Style – 2 to 5:30 pm
12/6 Olympic Studio, 117 Church Rd, Barnes – MF records Ballad Style – 2 to 6 pm
12/7 Bristol – F. Parr – MF Band
12/8 Afternoon: 4 to 6 pm record at Cine-Tele Sound Studios, 49/52 Kensington Gardens Square, Bayswater, London.
Evening: London – 100 Club – MF Orch;
12/14 Manchester – Club 43 – MF Orch (tracks appear on the Lost Tapes CDs)
12/15 Prague – MF Solo w/ Gustov Brom Orch
12/16 Bratislavia, Czechoslavakia
12/17 Brno, Czechoslavakia
12/18 Return to England
12/22 London – Bull’s Head Barnes – MF Solo
12/23 CBS – Photos
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