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Miles Davis

Miles Davis And Horns

1956 · Prestige PRLP 7025 · Mono · US · LP · 33 1/3 RPM

Pressing details

Label	Prestige
Catalogue number	PRLP 7025
Year	1956
Mono / Stereo	Mono
Country	US
Format	LP
Speed	33 1/3 RPM
Genre	Jazz - Bop
Producer	Bob Weinstock, Ira Gitler
Musicians	Miles Davis (trumpet), Sonny Rollins (tenor saxophone, 1951 session), Bennie Green (trombone, 1951 session), John Lewis (piano), Percy Heath (bass, 1951 session), Roy Haynes (drums, 1951 session), Al Cohn (tenor saxophone, 1953 session), Zoot Sims (tenor saxophone, 1953 session), Sonny Truitt (trombone, 1953 session), Leonard Gaskin (bass, 1953 session), Kenny Clarke (drums, 1953 session)

Matrix / Runout

Side A:  PRLP-7025-A RVG
Side B:  PRLP-7025-B RVG

Condition

Cover: VG+
Vinyl: VG+

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 splices together two formative Prestige sessions: a January 17, 1951 date, Davis's first for the label and his first time recording alongside Sonny Rollins, and a February 19, 1953 session built entirely around compositions and arrangements by tenor saxophonist Al Cohn. The 1951 session paired Davis's trumpet with trombonist Bennie Green and pianist John Lewis in a three-horn front line, producing originals like Davis's own "Down" and Lewis's "Morpheus" alongside standards such as "Blue Room" and "Whispering." The 1953 date brought together Cohn and Zoot Sims, two tenor players closely associated with the Woody Herman "Four Brothers" sound, with trombonist Sonny Truitt and a rhythm section anchored by Lewis and Kenny Clarke, yielding tightly arranged pieces like "Tasty Pudding" and "Willie The Wailer." Together the sessions capture Davis moving beyond his bebop apprenticeship and the Birth of the Cool dates toward the leaner, more blues-rooted voice that would soon define hard bop. Prestige compiled the material into this 12-inch LP in 1956, just as Davis's first great quintet was establishing him as a major bandleader, making the record a valuable document of his pre-stardom collaborations with Rollins, Cohn, Sims, and Lewis.

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

The side labels show the classic yellow-background, black-rim Prestige "fireworks" design (arrows, stars, spiral logo scattered around the rim), with "PRESTIGE RECORDS INC. • 446 W. 50th ST., N.Y.C." printed just inside the rim and "Remastered by Van Gelder" credited at three o'clock - both labels show a visible deep groove near the rim. That 446 W. 50th Street NYC address is the address Prestige used before its August 1958 relocation to Bergenfield, New Jersey, after which the same fireworks design was reprinted with the 203 South Washington Ave., Bergenfield address instead. The back cover repeats the 446 West 50th Street address, matching the labels and confirming jacket and disc belong together. This places the copy squarely in the original 1956 New York pressing run, ahead of the Bergenfield second pressing and well ahead of the retitled Early Miles reissues.

Fidelity

The labels credit Rudy Van Gelder's remastering and the dead wax carries his etched RVG stamp, marking this as an early New York pressing cut from his mastering work. Because the underlying 1951 and 1953 sessions predate Prestige's regular contemporary Van Gelder engineering, the sound has somewhat limited dynamic range and added period reverberation compared to a full mid-1950s Van Gelder session tape, but this remains the most immediate and collectible cut of the material. Later Bergenfield-era fireworks pressings can still draw on related Van Gelder metal and sound respectable, while the 1980s OJC reissue is a serviceable but lower-fidelity budget alternative; there is no dedicated Tone Poet, Music Matters, or Analogue Productions audiophile edition of this specific title.

Notes

1956 US Prestige PRLP 7025 mono - original first pressing. Yellow/black fireworks deep-groove labels carry the 446 W. 50th St., N.Y.C. address with "Remastered by Van Gelder," the same address printed on the back cover. The dead wax carries etched PRLP-7025-A RVG and PRLP-7025-B RVG. Prestige's move to Bergenfield, NJ in August 1958 places this 446 W. 50th labeling and jacket as the earliest New York pressing rather than a later fireworks repress.

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