Condividi su

La label specializzata in ristampe Craft Recordings sta per assestare un bel colpo: ha infatti riunito in un box i 5 album che Miles Davis incise per l’etitichetta Prestige. Il cofanetto si intitola The Miles Davis Quintet: The Legendary Prestige Sessions e uscirà il Bob Blumenthal.

I titoli degli LP inclusi (tutti su vinile, ovviamente) sono The New Miles Davis Quintet (1956), Cookin’ (1957), Relaxin’ (1958), Workin (1959) e Steamin’ (1961); il tutto è arricchito da lacune incisioni bonus tratte da otto show radiotelevisivi di Davis col suo quintetto – che constava, oltre a lui, di John Coltrane, Red Garland, Paul Chambers e Philly Joe Jones.

Le note biografiche di accompagnamento ai dischi sono state curate dallo storico del jazz Bob Blumenthal.

La tracklist

Disc 1

Side A
1. Stablemates
2. How Am I to Know?
3. Just Squeeze Me

Side B
1. There Is No Greater Love
2. The Theme
3. S’posin

Disc 2

Side A
1. In Your Own Sweet Way
2. Diane
3. Trane’s Blues

Side B
1. Something I Dreamed Last Night
2. It Could Happen to You
3. Woody’n You

Disc 3

Side A
1. Ahmad’s Blues
2. Surrey with the Fringe on Top
3. It Never Entered My Mind

Side B
1. When I Fall in Love
2. Salt Peanuts
3. Four
4. The Theme (take 1)
5. The Theme (take 2)

Disc 4

Side A
1. If I Were a Bell
2. Well You Needn’t
3. ‘Round Midnight

Side B
1. Half Nelson
2. You’re My Everything
3. I Could Write a Book
4. Oleo

Disc 5

Side A
1. Airegin
2. Tune Up
3. When Lights Are Low

Side B
1. Blues by Five
2. My Funny Valentine

Disc 6

Side A
1. Steve Allen Intro
2. Max Is Making Wax aka Chance It
3. Steve Allen Intro 2
4. It Never Entered My Mind
5. Tune Up
6. Walkin’

Side B
1. Four
2. Bye Bye Blackbird
3. Walkin’
4. Two Bass Hit