Dig (composition)

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"Dig" is a bebop jazz standard attributed to Miles Davis by Prestige Records without Davis' knowledge.[citation needed] It was recorded on October 5, 1951 and first released on his album The New Sounds.

Its chord sequence is almost identical to that of "

Miles Davis Volume 1).[1]

"Dig" has also been played by numerous other artists such as Sonny Rollins, Woody Herman, Donald Byrd, Archie Shepp, Joey DeFrancesco, and Fred Firth.

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  1. ^ cf. Jack Chambers, Milestones: The Music and Times of Miles Davis, Da Capo Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1998 (unabr. paperback ed.), pt. 1, p.158: "Dig, credited to Davis, was recorded seven month later as Donna and credited to McLean; by either title and author, it is a bebop line superimposed on the chord sequence of Sweet Georgia Brown."; Chambers (1998), p.164f: "Donna is a peculiarly methodical reading of the bouncy tune recorded under the title Dig for Prestige..."