Miles Davis

• DIGIPACK EDITION

Here is a chance to hear Miles Davis in something close to real time. Small matter that most collectors of hard bop will have these sides already and will be familiar with a particular running order. Perhaps those who have invested in the complete sessions will have a clearer sense of the continuity of these remarkable sessions, but that now familiar obsession with the burrs and swarf of the studio process may win out over musical appreciation. What happened at Van Gelder’s on October 26 1956 is one of the great performances of modern jazz. Surrender to it. - Brian Morton

PERSONNEL:

• Miles Davis - (trumpet)
• John Coltrane - (tenor saxophone)
• William “Red” Garland - (piano)
• Paul Chambers - (double bass)
• Philly Joe Jones - (drums)

Recorded October 26, 1956 at Rudy van Gelder Studio, Hackensack NJ.

TRACKS:

• 01 If I Were A Bell
• 02 Well, You Needn't
• 03 'Round Midnight
• 04 Half Nelson
• 05 You're My Everything
• 06 I Could Write A Book
• 07 Oleo
• 08 Airegin
• 09 Tune Up
• 10 When Lights Are Low
• 11 Blues By Five
• 12 My Funny Valentine