Probably 1960, February 12 - Japan, Tokyo - Meiji University
4 Hours Lecture and Concert: Tony Scott with Meiji University Big band 'Big Sound Society'

1)-I Got a Rhythm: T.S.(cl)
2)-Perdido: T.S. (pn, vcl)
3)-Blues for Meiji:T.S. (cl, pn), Kuno Ryuzo(cl)

Playing for about 3,000 students.(Some of these Universities have enrollment figures of 10,000) I was going to do a series of them but the riots got heavy and when a girl died in one, all the Universities were closed.
I was at the first anti-security-pact riot at the Diet Building, with a Japanese newspaper man, and saw 7,000 rioters pitted against 7,000 police. I ended up literally up a tree, taking photographs, (which are in my collection of 4,000 photos taken in Japan) until I realized that I was the only no-Japanese person in this wild scene, and an American to boot.

The rioters did not want a Security-Pact with USA, and I was the USA in person, so I scrambled down past a policeman, who had climbed up the tree to take notes, dropped to the ground, went through the crowd muttering in my best Japanese accent 'Gomenasai' (which means excuse-me) and jumped over the barricade of police trucks which were supposed to stop the mob, but didn't, and lost myself in the mob of 7,000 police. It was an exciting experience to see a mob in action but from then on anytime I heard about a 'DEMA', as it was called in Japan, being staged somewhere, I managed to stay home.

©Tony Scott