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Miles Davis All Stars (Miles Davis And Milt Jackson)

Quintet / Sextet

1956 · Prestige PRLP 7034 · Mono · US · LP · 33 1/3 RPM

Pressing details

Label	Prestige
Catalogue number	PRLP 7034
Year	1956
Mono / Stereo	Mono
Country	US
Format	LP
Speed	33 1/3 RPM
Genre	Jazz - Hard Bop
Producer	Bob Weinstock
Musicians	Miles Davis (trumpet), Milt Jackson (vibraphone), Jackie McLean (alto sax, on Dr. Jackle & Minor March), Ray Bryant (piano), Percy Heath (bass), Arthur Taylor (drums)

Matrix / Runout

Side A:  PRLP-7034-A C RVG
Side B:  PRLP-7034-B B RVG

Condition

Cover: G
Vinyl: VG+

Variant chronology

1956 - Prestige yellow "fireworks" label, deep groove, 446 W. 50th St. NYC address, RVG  <- this copy
1958-1963 - Prestige yellow/black label, Bergenfield NJ address (address-change repress)
c.1972 - Trio/King Japan pressing PJ-6-7034, mono, OBI
OJC-012 reissue (Fantasy, 1980s-90s)

This Pressing

1st press (mono, 1956) - Prestige yellow/black fireworks label, deep groove, 446 W. 50th St. NYC address; RVG etched in deadwax.

The Album

Recorded on August 5, 1955 at Rudy Van Gelder's Hackensack studio, this session paired Miles Davis with vibraphonist Milt Jackson for a one-off all-star date drawing on none of Davis's regular working-group members of the period. The billed "quintet/sextet" credit reflects the addition of a young Jackie McLean, who sits in on alto sax for his own two compositions, "Dr. Jackle" and "Minor March," while the remaining tracks feature the core quintet of Davis, Jackson, pianist Ray Bryant, bassist Percy Heath, and drummer Arthur Taylor. The record arrived during Davis's prolific mid-1950s run of Prestige sessions that preceded his signing to Columbia, capturing him at a pivotal moment just before he assembled his classic quintet with John Coltrane. Thad Jones's "Bitty Ditty" and Bryant's blues-based closer "Changes" round out a compact, blowing-session program that showcases the interplay between Davis's understated lyricism and Jackson's fluid, blues-drenched vibraphone lines. The album has long been valued by hard-bop collectors as an early, informal document of two major voices of the era working together outside their usual bandstands, and it remains a minor but respected entry in Davis's vast Prestige discography.

Tracklist

Side 1

1. Dr. Jackle
2. Bitty Ditty

Side 2

1. Minor March
2. Blues Changes

The Label

This copy carries the earliest Prestige label design for PRLP 7034: yellow labels with the black curved "Prestige" fireworks graphic, deep-groove ring stamped into both sides, and the "Prestige Records Inc. • 446 W. 50th St., N.Y.C." address arced around the rim. Prestige used the 446 W. 50th Street NYC address from its founding through 1957, after which the company relocated to Bergenfield, New Jersey and the labels were updated to reflect that address. Deep-groove pressing plus the NYC address places this copy squarely in the first-pressing manufacturing run made at the time of the album's original August 1956 release, ahead of the later Bergenfield-address and subsequent silver/black-label repressings.

Fidelity

Mastered by Rudy Van Gelder directly from his own Hackensack session tape, this deep-groove NYC-address pressing represents the closest generation to the original 1955 masters and is the cut most prized by Prestige collectors for its warmth and presence, though period Prestige pressings can vary in surface quality plant-to-plant. It ranks above the later Bergenfield-address and silver-label Prestige repressings, the 1968 "Odyssey!" reprocessed-stereo reissue, and the OJC vinyl/CD reissues, none of which carry the same first-generation Van Gelder lacquer; there is no widely noted audiophile remaster of this specific title to compare against.

Notes

1956 Prestige PRLP 7034 mono - original first pressing. Deep-groove yellow "fireworks" labels with the 446 W. 50th St., N.Y.C. address (used by Prestige only through 1957) confirm this predates the Bergenfield, NJ address change seen on later copies. RVG hand-etched in the deadwax on both sides matches Van Gelder's original 1955/56 lacquers for this catalog number; the transcribed stamped letters ("C" on side A, "B" on side B) are consistent with the early stamper-letter sequence documented for this pressing. Released August 1956.

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