The Legendary Prestige Quintet Sessions

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The Legendary Prestige Quintet Sessions
Box set by
Miles Davis
ReleasedMay 23, 2006
RecordedNovember 16, 1955
May 11, 1956
October 26, 1956
GenreJazz
LabelConcord Music Group
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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 2019 Craft Recordings, an imprint of the Concord group of labels, released a 32-track version without the fourth disc of live recordings subsequent to the main body of studio recordings in digital hi-res format. It is also available in a set of six vinyl LPs from Craft Recordings in the original 42-track format.

Background

In the summer of 1955, Davis performed a noted set at the

drums.[3] By the autumn Rollins had left, and at the recommendation of Jones, Davis replaced Rollins with John Coltrane.[4]

In January 1951, Prestige Records owner and producer Bob Weinstock signed Davis to a one-year contract;[5] 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.[6] With his success at Newport and the formation of the Miles Davis Quintet, Davis convinced Avakian to buy out his contract with Prestige.[7]

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.[8] Davis took the quintet into the studio for a session in 1955 followed by two marathon dates in 1956, meeting his contractual obligations efficiently.[9] Prestige released the results of the first date for the album Miles in 1956, his second specifically for the twelve-inch LP format.[10]

Content

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.[11]

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.[12] Tracks five and six derive from a radio broadcast at the now-defunct Blue Note club in Philadelphia on December 8, 1956.[13] 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.[14]

Track listing

Disc one

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Stablemates" (originally released on
Herbert Magidson
6:13

Disc two

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."
Well You Needn't" (originally released on Steamin' )
Thelonious Monk6:18

Disc three

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."
Oleo" (originally released on Relaxin' )
Sonny Rollins6:22
6."Airegin" (originally released on Cookin' )Sonny Rollins4:24
7."Tune Up" (originally released on Cookin' )Miles Davis5:41
8."When Lights Are Low" (originally released on Cookin' )Benny Carter, Spencer Williams7:30
9."Blues by Five" (originally released on Cookin' )Red Garland10:23
10."My Funny Valentine" (originally released on Cookin' )Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart6:04

Disc four

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Steve Allen Intro" 1:52
2."Max Is Making Wax" (Tonight Starring Steve Allen performance)Oscar Pettiford3:01
3."Steve Allen Intro 2" 2:06
4."It Never Entered My Mind" (Tonight Starring Steve Allen performance)Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart2:56
5."Tune Up" (live at the Blue Note, Philadelphia)Miles Davis4:25
6."Walkin'" (live at the Blue Note, Philadelphia)Richard Carpenter5:21
7."Four" (live at the Café Bohemia)Miles Davis4:52
8."Bye Bye Blackbird" (live at the Café Bohemia)Ray Henderson, Mort Dixon6:55
9."Walkin'" (live at the Café Bohemia)Richard Carpenter6:34
10."Two Bass Hit" (live at the Café Bohemia)Dizzy Gillespie, John Lewis3:17

Personnel

Production personnel

  • Bob Weinstock — original producer
  • original engineer
  • Joe Tarantino —
    digital remastering
  • Greg Allen — reissue
    art direction
  • Abbey Anna, Rikka Arnold, Bill Belmont, Chris Clough, Terri Hinte, Jamie Putnam — reissue project assembly
  • Burt Goldblatt, Katherine Holzman Goldblatt, Michael Randolph, Don Schlitten, Chuck Stewart, Ted Williams — photography
  • Stuart Kremsky, Cheryl Pawelski, Nick Phillips — reissue compilation
  • Bob Blumenthal — reissue liner notes

References

  1. AllMusic
  2. ISBN 978-0-19-532266-8
    , pp. 44-45.
  3. ^ Cook, p. 45.
  4. ^ Cook, p. 46.
  5. ^ Cook, p. 25.
  6. ISBN 978-0-312-32785-9
    , pp. 85-86, 160.
  7. ^ Griffin and Washington, p. 86.
  8. ^ Cook, p. 47.
  9. ^ Cook, p. 50.
  10. ^ Both Sides Now discography retrieved 31 December 2016
  11. ^ The Jazz Discography website retrieved 10 August 2011.
  12. ^ Legendary Prestige Quintet Sessions liner notes, Concord Music Group PRS500038, 2016.
  13. ^ The Jazz Discography website retrieved 10 August 2011.
  14. ^ The Jazz Discography website retrieved 10 August 2011.
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