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Miles: The New Miles Davis Quintet is an album by jazz musician Miles Davis released in 1956 on Prestige Records, catalogue 7104. It is the debut record by the Miles Davis Quintet, and generally known by the title Miles as indicated on the cover.
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In the summer of 1955, Davis performed a noted set at the Newport Jazz Festival, and had been approached by Columbia Records executive George Avakian, offering a contract with the label if he could form a regular band.[2] Davis assembled his first regular quintet to meet a commitment at the Café Bohemia in July, by September the line-up stabilizing to John Coltrane on tenor saxophone, Red Garland on piano, Paul Chambers on bass, and Philly Joe Jones on drums.[3]
Still under contract to Prestige, an arrangement dating back to January of 1951,[4] Davis convinced Avakian to buy out his contract with Prestige.[5] The terms of the deal between Avakian and Weinstock allowed Davis to record for Columbia but not release any of the material until Davis fulfilled his remaining duty to Prestige.[6] Davis took the quintet into the Columbia's studio first, on October 26, to record titles that would be issued on Round About Midnight.[7] Three weeks later the quintet entered the studio of Rudy Van Gelder in Hackensack, New Jersey, yielding the six titles for this album.
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The songs were a mix of pop and jazz standards, items familiar enough to present few problems to the fledgling band, given the Prestige policy of offering no compensation for rehearsal time.[8] "The Theme" would continue to be Davis' standard set closer, and Coltrane does not play on "There Is No Greater Love."
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Albums recorded by the same personnel:
[edit] References
- ^ Yanow, Scott (2011 [last update]). "The New Miles Davis Quintet - Miles Davis Quintet | AllMusic". allmusic.com. http://www.allmusic.com/album/r137488. Retrieved 2 August 2011.
- ^ Richard Cook. It's About That Time: Miles Davis On and Off Record. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. ISBN-13 978-0-19-532266-8, pp. 44-45.
- ^ Cook, p. 45.
- ^ Cook, p. 25.
- ^ Farah Jasmine Griffin and Salim Washington. Clawing at the Limits of Cool: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and the Greatest Jazz Collaboration Ever. New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2008. ISBN-13 978-0-312-32785-9, p. 86.
- ^ Cook, p. 47.
- ^ Jazzdisco.org Miles Davis retrieved 10 August 2011.
- ^ Griffin and Washington, p. 160.
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