Miles Davis Quintet – The Legendary Prestige Quintet Sessions [2006] (4 x CDs)

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Miles Davis Quintet – The Legendary Prestige Quintet Sessions [2006] (4 x CDs)

The Legendary Prestige Quintet Sessions is a four compact disc box set of recordings by the Miles Davis Quintet released in 2006 by the Concord Music Group. It collates on three discs the entire set of recordings that made up the Prestige Records albums released from 1956 through 1961 - Miles, Cookin', Relaxin', Workin', and Steamin'. The track "'Round Midnight" was released on the album Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants. The fourth disc contains live material from a television broadcast and in jazz club settings. It peaked at #15 on the Billboard jazz album chart, and was reissued on December 2, 2016, in a smaller compact disc brick packaging.

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. Davis assembled his first regular quintet to meet a commitment at the Café Bohemia in July with Sonny Rollins on tenor saxophone, Red Garland on piano, Paul Chambers on bass, and Philly Joe Jones on drums. By the autumn Rollins had left, and at the recommendation of Jones, Davis replaced Rollins with John Coltrane. 

In January 1951, Prestige Records owner and producer Bob Weinstock signed Davis to a one-year contract; Davis would continue to record for the label into 1956. Weinstock gave Davis an advance of $750, but the company's artists' contracts were often manipulative with low royalties, paying nothing for rehearsal time. With his success at Newport and the formation of the Miles Davis Quintet, Davis convinced Avakian to buy out his contract with Prestige.

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. Davis took the quintet into the studio for a session in 1955 followed by two marathon dates in 1956, meeting his contractual obligations efficiently. Prestige released the results of the first date for the album Miles in 1956, his second specifically for the twelve-inch LP format.

Recording sessions took place at the studio of Rudy Van Gelder in Hackensack, New Jersey, three over a twelve-month period 1955 to 1956. Discs one, two, and three contain selections in the order they were taped, all five Prestige LPs assembled from this material. The songs were mostly pop standards, mixed with jazz standards that would have been commonly played by hard bop groups during the 1950s. Disc one, tracks one through six, were recorded on November 16, 1955; disc one, tracks seven through ten, and disc two, tracks one through ten, were recorded on May 11, 1956; and disc two, tracks eleven and twelve, and disc three were recorded on October 26, 1956.

Disc four contains previously unreleased live performances. Tracks one through four are from the first iteration of The Tonight Show, taped on November 17, 1955, the day after the first studio session. Tracks five and six derive from a radio broadcast at the now-defunct Blue Note club in Philadelphia on December 8, 1956. Tracks seven through ten derive from a show at the also defunct Café Bohemia in New York City on May 17, 1958, with Bill Evans in place of Garland. The show was broadcast on the Bandstand USA radio program.  (Wikipedia)

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Track lists

CD01

01 Miles Davis Quintet - Stablemates 5:24

02 Miles Davis Quintet - How Am I To Know? 4:41

03 Miles Davis Quintet - Just Squeeze Me 7:29

04 Miles Davis Quintet - There Is No Greater Love 5:22

05 Miles Davis Quintet - The Theme 5:52

06 Miles Davis Quintet - S'posin' 5:17

07 Miles Davis Quintet - In Your Own Sweet Way 5:47

08 Miles Davis Quintet - Diane 7:52

09 Miles Davis Quintet - Trane's Blues 8:37

10 Miles Davis Quintet - Something I Dreamed Last Night 6:15

CD02

01 Miles Davis Quintet - It Could Happen To You 6:40

02 Miles Davis Quintet - Woody'n You 5:04

03 Miles Davis Quintet - Ahmad's Blues 7:28

04 Miles Davis Quintet - Surrey With The Fringe On Top 9:07

05 Miles Davis Quintet - It Never Entered My Mind 5:27

06 Miles Davis Quintet - When I Fall In Love 4:28

07 Miles Davis Quintet - Salt Peanuts 6:10

08 Miles Davis Quintet - Four 7:17

09 Miles Davis Quintet - The Theme (Take 1) 2:02

10 Miles Davis Quintet - The Theme (Take 2) 1:06

11 Miles Davis Quintet - If I Were A Bell 8:20

12 Miles Davis Quintet - Well, You Needn't 6:20

CD03

01 Miles Davis Quintet - 'round Midnight 5:25

02 Miles Davis Quintet - Half Nelson 4:49

03 Miles Davis Quintet - You’re My Everything 5:21

04 Miles Davis Quintet - I Could Write A Book 5:11

05 Miles Davis Quintet - Oleo 6:31

06 Miles Davis Quintet - Airegin 4:27

07 Miles Davis Quintet - Tune Up 5:41

08 Miles Davis Quintet - When Lights Are Low 7:35

09 Miles Davis Quintet - Blues By Five 10:26

10 Miles Davis Quintet - My Funny Valentine 6:01

CD04

01 Miles Davis Quintet - Steve Allen Intro (17-11-55 The Tonight Show With Steve Allen) 1:51

02 Miles Davis Quintet - Max Is Making Wax Aka: Chance It (17-11-55 The Tonight Show With Steve Allen) 3:05

03 Miles Davis Quintet - Steve Allen Intro 2 (17-11-55 The Tonight Show With Steve Allen) 2:01

04 Miles Davis Quintet - It Never Entered My Mind (17-11-55 The Tonight Show With Steve Allen) 2:58

05 Miles Davis Quintet - Tune Up (08-12-56 The Blue Note, Philadelphia, Pa) 4:23

06 Miles Davis Quintet - Walkin' (08-12-56 The Blue Note, Philadelphia, Pa) 5:22

07 Miles Davis Quintet - Four (17-05-58 Cafe Bohemia, New York, Ny) 4:54

08 Miles Davis Quintet - Bye Bye Blackbird (17-05-58 Cafe Bohemia, New York, Ny) 6:55

09 Miles Davis Quintet - Walkin' (17-05-58 Cafe Bohemia, New York, Ny) 6:35

10 Miles Davis Quintet - Two Bass Hit (17-05-58 Cafe Bohemia, New York, Ny) 0:45

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