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Image of Joe Morello playing in front of an elephant in Ceylon.
Joe Morello with elephant in Colombo, Ceylon. Unknown whether Morello played for peanuts...

Dave Brubeck Quartet Tour Itinerary

February 7- March 4, 1958 England, Sweden, Germany, Holland, Denmark, Belgium
 
State Department sponsored tour begins
March 5-19 Poland
  Szczecin
Gdansk
Warsaw
Krakow
Wroclaw
Lodz
Poznan
March 21-30 Turkey
  Izmir
Ankara
Istanbul
March 31-April 13 India
  Rajkot
Bombay
New Delhi
Hyderabad
Madras
Calcutta
April 15-18 Ceylon
  Colombo
April 21-22 East Pakistan
  Dacca
April 24-30 West Pakistan
  Rawalpindi
Karachi
Lahore
May 2 Afghanistan
  Kabul
May 4-6 Iran
  Abadan
Tehran
May 8-10 Iraq
  Baghdad
May 11, 1958 Return to the United States