Miles Davis Vols. 1 & 2
Miles Davis | ||||
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Volume 1 | ||||
Compilation album by Miles Davis | ||||
Released | January 1956 (Vol. 1)[1] February 1956 (Vol. 2) | |||
Recorded |
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Studio | WOR Studios, NYC Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey | |||
Genre | Hard bop | |||
Length | 43:36 (Vol. 1; LP) 44:31 (Vol. 2; LP) 58:18 (Vol. 1; CD) 39:17 (Vol. 2; CD) | |||
Label | Blue Note BLP 1501 (Vol. 1) BLP 1502 (Vol. 2) | |||
Producer | Alfred Lion | |||
Miles Davis chronology | ||||
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Miles Davis | ||||
Volume 1 | ||||
Miles Davis, Volumes 1 & 2 are a pair of separate but related albums by American jazz trumpeter Miles Davis recorded on May 9, 1952, April 20, 1953 and March 6, 1954 and released on Blue Note early 1956. The three sessions were originally released on ten-inch LPs as Young Man with a Horn (1953), Miles Davis, Vol. 2 (1953) and Miles Davis, Vol. 3 (1954), respectively.[2]
Background
Personal life
Volume 1 was originally released in January 1956 shortly after Davis won the DownBeat readers poll as best trumpeter and shortly followed in February by Volume 2 (BLP 1502).[3]
Release history
After 10"s lost the format war, Blue Note began reissuing its Modern Jazz Series on 12"s. The three sessions were subsequently recompiled across Miles Davis, Volume 1 (BLP 1501) and Miles Davis, Volume 2 (BLP 1502), the first of Blue Note's 1500 series, their first one hundred 12" records after they discontinued their line of 10" records.[2]
The two volumes were recompiled for their CD reissue, restoring the track listing of the original 10"s, placing Vol. 1 (BLP 2028) on Volume 1, and Vol. 2 (BLP 5057) and Vol. 3 (BLP 5070) on Volume 2.
While the original BLP 1501 running order is available on some Japanese CD versions and from HDTracks, most CD reissues recompile the three sets with an entirely different track listing, grouping the sessions together and appending alternate takes, placing the 1952 and 1954 sessions on Volume 1 and the 1953 session on Volume 2.[citation needed]
When Rudy Van Gelder remastered the pair of the 2001 RVG edition, he reused the CD track list and replaced the covers for the two volumes with new covers based on the originals from Miles Davis, Vol. 3 and Miles Davis, Vol. 2 respectively.
Reception
Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [4] |
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings | [5] |
The album was identified by Scott Yanow in his AllMusic essay "Hard Bop" in 2010 as one of the 17 Essential Hard Bop Recordings.[6]
Track listing
Miles Davis, Volume 1
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Date recorded | Length |
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1. | "Tempus Fugit" | Bud Powell | April 20, 1953 | 3:53 |
2. | "Kelo" | Jay Jay Johnson | April 20, 1953 | 3:30 |
3. | "Enigma" | Johnson | April 20, 1953 | 3:25 |
4. | "Ray's Idea" |
| April 20, 1953 | 3:46 |
5. | "How Deep Is the Ocean?" | Irving Berlin | May 9, 1952 | 4:40 |
6. | "C.T.A" (alternate take) | Jimmy Heath | April 20, 1953 | 3:18 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Date recorded | Length |
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1. | "Dear Old Stockholm" | Traditional | May 9, 1952 | 4:13 |
2. | "Chance It" | Oscar Pettiford | May 9, 1952 | 3:04 |
3. | "Yesterdays" | May 9, 1952 | 3:46 | |
4. | "Donna" (alternate take) | Jackie McLean | May 9, 1952 | 3:12 |
5. | "C.T.A" | Jimmy Heath | April 20, 1953 | 3:36 |
6. | "Woody 'n' You" (alternate take) | Dizzy Gillespie | May 9, 1952 | 3:23 |
Total length: | 43:36 |
Miles Davis, Volume 2
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Date recorded | Length |
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1. | "Take Off" | Miles Davis | March 6, 1954 | 3:41 |
2. | "Weirdo" | Davis | March 6, 1954 | 4:45 |
3. | "Woody 'n' You" | Dizzy Gillespie | May 9, 1952 | 3:26 |
4. | "I Waited for You" |
| April 20, 1953 | 3:31 |
5. | "Ray's Idea" (alternate take) |
| April 20, 1953 | 3:53 |
6. | "Donna" | Jackie McLean | May 9, 1952 | 3:14 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Date recorded | Length |
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1. | "Well, You Needn't" | Thelonious Monk | March 6, 1954 | 5:24 |
2. | "The Leap" | Davis | March 6, 1954 | 4:32 |
3. | "Lazy Susan" | Davis | March 6, 1954 | 4:03 |
4. | "Tempus Fugit" (alternate take) | Bud Powell | April 20, 1953 | 3:31 |
5. | "It Never Entered My Mind" | March 6, 1954 | 4:01 | |
Total length: | 44:31 |
CD reissues[7]
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Date recorded | Length |
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1. | "Dear Old Stockholm" | Traditional | May 9, 1952 | 4:13 |
2. | "Chance It" | Oscar Pettiford | May 9, 1952 | 3:04 |
3. | "Donna" (a.k.a. Dig) | Jackie McLean | May 9, 1952 | 3:14 |
4. | "Woody 'n' You" | Dizzy Gillespie | May 9, 1952 | 3:26 |
5. | "Yesterdays" | Jerome Kern, Otto Harbach | May 9, 1952 | 3:46 |
6. | "How Deep Is the Ocean?" | Irving Berlin | May 9, 1952 | 4:40 |
7. | "Chance It" (alternate take) | Oscar Pettiford | May 9, 1952 | 2:54 |
8. | "Donna" (alternate take) | Jackie McLean | May 9, 1952 | 3:12 |
9. | "Woody 'n' You" (alternate take) | Dizzy Gillespie | May 9, 1952 | 3:23 |
10. | "Take Off" | Miles Davis | March 6, 1954 | 3:41 |
11. | "Lazy Susan" | Miles Davis | March 6, 1954 | 4:03 |
12. | "The Leap" | Miles Davis | March 6, 1954 | 4:32 |
13. | "Well, You Needn't" | Thelonious Monk | March 6, 1954 | 5:24 |
14. | "Weirdo" | Miles Davis | March 6, 1954 | 4:45 |
15. | "It Never Entered My Mind" | March 6, 1954 | 4:01 | |
Total length: | 43:36 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Date recorded | Length |
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1. | "Kelo" | Jay Jay Johnson | April 20, 1953 (1953-04-20) | 3:20 |
2. | "Enigma" | Jay Jay Johnson | April 20, 1953 (1953-04-20) | 3:25 |
3. | "Ray's Idea" | Gil Fuller, Ray Brown | April 20, 1953 (1953-04-20) | 3:46 |
4. | "Tempus Fugit" | Bud Powell | April 20, 1953 (1953-04-20) | 3:53 |
5. | "C.T.A." | Jimmy Heath | April 20, 1953 (1953-04-20) | 3:36 |
6. | "I Waited for You" | Gil Fuller, Dizzy Gillespie | April 20, 1953 (1953-04-20) | 3:31 |
7. | "Kelo" (alternate take) | Jay Jay Johnson | April 20, 1953 (1953-04-20) | 3:27 |
8. | "Enigma" (alternate take) | Jay Jay Johnson | April 20, 1953 (1953-04-20) | 3:27 |
9. | "Ray's Idea" (alternate take) | Gil Fuller, Ray Brown | April 20, 1953 (1953-04-20) | 3:53 |
10. | "Tempus Fugit" (alternate take) | Bud Powell | April 20, 1953 (1953-04-20) | 4:01 |
11. | "C.T.A." (alternate take) | Jimmy Heath | April 20, 1953 (1953-04-20) | 3:18 |
Total length: | 39:17 |
Personnel
Musicians
May 9, 1952[8]
- Miles Davis – trumpet
- J. J. Johnson – trombone
- Jackie McLean – alto saxophone
- Gil Coggins – piano
- Oscar Pettiford – bass
- Kenny Clarke – drums
- Recorded at WOR Studios, New York City
April 20, 1953[9]
- Miles Davis – trumpet
- J. J. Johnson – trombone
- Jimmy Heath – tenor saxophone
- Gil Coggins – piano
- Percy Heath – bass
- Art Blakey – drums
- Recorded at WOR Studios, New York City
March 6, 1954[10]
- Miles Davis – trumpet
- Horace Silver – piano
- Percy Heath – bass
- Art Blakey – drums
- Recorded at Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey
Technical personnel
Original
- Alfred Lion – producer
- Doug Hawkins (1952, 1953) – recording engineer
- Rudy Van Gelder (1954) – recording engineer
- John Hermansader, Reid Miles – cover design
- Francis Wolff – photography
- Leonard Feather – liner notes
Reissue
- Michael Cuscuna – producer
- Ron McMaster, Yoshio Okazaki – digital transfers
References
- ^ "The Billboard, February 4, 1956". Billboard. 4 February 1956. Retrieved April 17, 2017.
- ^ a b "Miles Davis Volume 1". Discogs. Retrieved April 17, 2017.
- ^ Leonard Feather in the original liner notes to Miles Davis Volume 1 (1956).
- ^ "Miles Davis Volume 1 (All Music review)". All Music. Retrieved April 17, 2017.
- ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 341. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
- ^ "Hard Bop (Essay) by Scott Yanow". All Music. Retrieved April 17, 2017.
- ^ "Miles Davis Volume 1 (CD Reissue)". Discogs. Retrieved April 20, 2017.
- ^ May 9, 1952 Session Details, Miles Ahead: A Miles Davis Website, accessed July 14, 2014
- ^ April 20, 1953 Session Details, Miles Ahead: A Miles Davis Website, accessed July 14, 2014
- ^ March 6, 1954 Session Details, Miles Ahead: A Miles Davis Website, accessed July 14, 2014
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