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Miles Davis
Miles Davis And Horns
1956 · Prestige LP 7025 (PRLP 7025) · Mono · US · LP · 33 1/3 RPM
Pressing details
| Label | Prestige |
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| Catalogue number | LP 7025 (PRLP 7025) |
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| Year | 1956 |
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| Mono / Stereo | Mono |
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| Country | US |
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| Format | LP |
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| Speed | 33 1/3 RPM |
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| Genre | Jazz - Bop |
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| Producer | Bob Weinstock, Ira Gitler |
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| Musicians | Miles Davis (trumpet), Sonny Rollins (tenor saxophone, 1951 session), Bennie Green (trombone, 1951 session), Al Cohn (tenor saxophone, 1953 session), Zoot Sims (tenor saxophone, 1953 session), Sonny Truitt (trombone, 1953 session), John Lewis (piano), Percy Heath (bass, 1951 session), Roy Haynes (drums, 1951 session), Leonard Gaskin (bass, 1953 session), Kenny Clarke (drums, 1953 session) |
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Matrix / Runout
Side A: PRLP-7025-A RVG
Side B: PRLP-7025-B RVG
Condition
- Cover
- VG+
- Vinyl
- EX DEEP GROOVE/VG+ DEEP GROOVE
Variant chronology
1956 - US original, yellow/black fireworks deep-groove label with 446 W. 50th St., N.Y.C. address, "Remastered by Van Gelder," RVG etching, and original Don Martin cover <- this copy
c. 1958-1964 - US second pressing, yellow/black fireworks deep-groove label with 203 South Washington Ave., Bergenfield, N.J. address
1959 - US retitled Early Miles 1951 & 1953, Prestige PRLP 7168
1969 - US Early Miles, Prestige PRST 7674 blue-label configuration
1983 - US Original Jazz Classics OJC-053 reissue
This Pressing
1st press (mono, 1956) - Prestige 446 W. 50th St. deep-groove fireworks labels; etched RVG dead-wax markings.
The Album
Miles Davis and Horns combines Davis's January 17, 1951 Prestige session with a February 19, 1953 date devoted to compositions and arrangements by Al Cohn. The 1951 date was Davis's first studio session for Prestige and his first recording encounter with Sonny Rollins, while its three-horn front line also included trombonist Bennie Green and pianist John Lewis. The later session brought Davis together with Cohn and Zoot Sims, two leading tenor saxophonists associated with Woody Herman's famous Four Brothers sound, plus trombonist Sonny Truitt and a rhythm section led by Lewis and drummer Kenny Clarke. Cohn's tightly voiced charts gave Davis an unusually rich ensemble setting, from the soulful "Tasty Pudding" to the brisk exchanges of "Floppy." The earlier material captures the young Davis moving beyond bebop and the Birth of the Cool sessions toward the more personal, blues-inflected language that would define hard bop. Prestige assembled the two dates for the 12-inch LP market in 1956, just as Davis was becoming a major star through his first great quintet. The music is therefore both historically important and musically rewarding: it documents formative collaborations with Rollins, Cohn, Sims, and Lewis before Davis's breakthrough period.
Tracklist
Side 1
1. Tasty Pudding
2. Floppy
3. Willie The Wailer
Side 2
1. For Adults Only
2. Morpheus
3. Down
4. Blue Room
5. Whispering
The Label
This copy carries the original yellow-and-black "fireworks" Prestige label, deep groove, 446 W. 50th St., N.Y.C. address, and "Remastered by Van Gelder" at three o'clock. The 446 W. 50th address places manufacture in Prestige's original New York period; the firm moved to 203 South Washington Avenue in Bergenfield, New Jersey, in August 1958, after which the second fireworks label bore that address. The back cover's matching 446 West 50th Street address confirms that the jacket and record belong to the original New York issue. The typed etched RVG dead-wax evidence supports a 1956 Van Gelder-mastered first pressing rather than a later Bergenfield repeat.
Fidelity
This is the sought-after original mono configuration, with Rudy Van Gelder's remastering credited on the label and RVG etched in the dead wax according to the collector's transcription. Because the source sessions predated Prestige's regular use of Van Gelder as recording engineer, the LP was remastered from earlier material rather than cut from a contemporary full-range Van Gelder session tape; period and specialist commentary notes some added reverberation and the limited dynamic range of the early sources. Nevertheless, an early New York RVG pressing generally has the most immediate and collectible presentation. Later Bergenfield pressings can still sound strong from related Van Gelder metal, while the 1980s OJC reissue is a serviceable lower-priced alternative; no widely collected Tone Poet, Music Matters, or Analogue Productions audiophile edition is specific to this title.
Notes
1956 US Prestige LP 7025 mono - original first pressing. The deep-groove yellow/black fireworks labels carry the 446 W. 50th St., N.Y.C. address and "Remastered by Van Gelder," and the back cover repeats the New York address. Typed dead-wax transcriptions report etched PRLP-7025-A RVG and PRLP-7025-B RVG. Prestige moved to Bergenfield, New Jersey, in August 1958, so the 446 W. 50th labels and jacket decisively place this copy before that change.
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