Description
*This is a Vinyl LP*
Release Date: 1989
Label: Prestige / OJC
Track List
Side A
1. The Man I Love (take 2)
2. Swing Spring
Side B
3. ‘Round About Midnight*
4. Bemsha Swing
5. The Man I Love (take 1)
Personnel
- Miles Davis – trumpet
- Milt Jackson – vibes
- Thelonious Monk – piano
- Percy Heath – bass
- Kenny Clarke – drums
- John Coltrane – tenor sax*
- Red Garland – piano*
- Paul Chambers – bass*
- Philly Joe Jones – drums*
Notes
Here are four tracks from one of the classic sessions of all time when a combination of giants gathered in Rudy Van Gelder’s studio for an historic meeting on Christmas Eve afternoon and early dark, 1954. With Thelonious Mok and 3/4 of the Modern Jazz Quartet (Jackson, Heath, and Clarke) as his accomplices. Miles blends sophisticated harmonic knowledge with raw, spontaneous invention to produce extraodinary music. The two takes of “The Man I Love” are quite different within their basic similarity. An added starter is “Round Midnight” done by the great Davis quintet of 1956-Coltrane, Garland, Chambers, and Philly Joe Jones.
