Jazz at the Plaza Vol. I

Jazz at the Plaza Vol. I
Live album by The Miles Davis Sextet
Released	September 28, 1973[1]
Recorded	September 9, 1958
Venue	Plaza Hotel New York City
Genre	Jazz hard bop [2]
Length	41:02
Label	Columbia
Producer	Teo Macero
The Miles Davis Sextet chronology
In Concert (1973) Jazz at the Plaza Vol. I (1973) 1958 Miles (1974)
Miles Davis live chronology
Miles & Monk at Newport (1958) Jazz at the Plaza Vol. I (1958) In Person Friday and Saturday Nights at the Blackhawk, Complete (1958)

Jazz at the Plaza Vol. I is a live album by The Miles Davis Sextet. It was recorded in 1958 and released in 1973 by Columbia Records. Duke Ellington was recorded at the same event and released as the second volume (Jazz at the Plaza Vol. II).

Background

The album features the famed sextet that recorded Kind of Blue six months later. The concert was recorded in 1958 but not released in full until 1973. The last three songs would reappear (in reverse order) in 1974, on 1958 Miles, but on Jazz at the Plaza all the tracks are of much better sound quality. The musicians did not know they were being recorded at the time. The event was a party thrown by Columbia to celebrate the healthy state of their jazz division. Indeed, it was not meant to be a record session: "it was a party. We taped it because we wanted to remember it, in case it never happened again."^[3] Pianist Bill Evans later stated the musicians who were still alive at the time of release were offered payment at the 1958 scale.^[4]

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The original LP misidentified the tune "Straight, No Chaser" as "Jazz at the Plaza", the drummer as Philly Joe Jones, and the location as the Edwardian Room. ^[6]

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The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	[7]

• Miles Davis – trumpet
• John Coltrane – tenor saxophone
• Julian "Cannonball" Adderley – alto saxophone
• Bill Evans – piano
• Paul Chambers – bass
• Jimmy Cobb – drums

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