Miles Davis: 1958 Miles

Rating: ★★★★★

Record and Artist Details

Porgy and Bess

Musicians:

Billy Kyle (p)
Trummy Young (tb, v)
Ella Fitzgerald (v)
Barrett Deems (d)
Edmond Hall (cl)
Dale Jones (b)
Louis Armstrong (v, t)

Label:

State of Art

June/2018

Catalogue Number:

81207

RecordDate:

18-19 August 1957 and 14 October 1957, 15 August 1956

Musicians:

Miles Davis
Jimmy Cobb (d)
Sonny Rollins
Miles Davis (t)
Bill Evans
Paul Chambers (b)
Miles Davis
John Coltrane
Art Taylor (d)
John Coltrane (ts)
Philly Joe Jones (d)
Tommy Flanagan (p)
Red Garland (p)
Julian ‘Cannonball’ Adderley (as)

Label:

Dreamcovers Records

September/2014

Catalogue Number:

6084

RecordDate:

1958

1958 Miles is a facsimile CD of a Japanese issue of the four remaining studio tracks of the Kind of Blue band with pianist Bill Evans. Three of these orphaned tracks were originally released on the album Jazz Track (coupled with the original music for L'Ascenseur Pour L’Échafaud) while ‘Love for Sale’ turned up on a 1975 Columbia compilation Black Giants. All four titles surfaced in 1991 as ’58 Sessions Featuring Stella by Starlight (Columbia/Legacy) and in 2008 they appeared on Miles Davis – Kind of Blue: 50th Anniversary Collectors Edition together with an alternative take. They have also popped up from time to time on bootleg releases but for reasons of space, only the main sources are cited here. They are masterpieces, of course; Bonislaw Kaper's ‘On Green Dolphin Street’ in surely its definitive version, while ‘Love for Sale’ remains as fresh now as in 1958. Thrown in for good measure are four tracks by the 1955 Davis quintet and three by a 1956 quintet with Sonny Rollins on tenor. Porgy and Bess is a bona fide jazz masterpiece; here in the form it took on its original release as Columbia CS-8085. It is an album everybody reading this magazine should possess. If you don't then here's another chance to work out your own relationship with this haunting, compelling music. Bonus tracks thrown in at the end of this CD are totally unrelated to what has gone before – the famous Prestige session with Monk and a jaunty quintet from 1954 with Rollins and Horace Silver on piano.

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