Miles Davis All Stars, Vols. 1 & 2
Miles Davis All Stars, Vol. 1
Studio album by
Miles Davis
Released1955
RecordedDecember 24, 1954
StudioVan Gelder Studio
Hackensack, New Jersey
Genre
LengthVol. 1: 21:54
Vol. 2: 17:21
LabelPrestige
PRLP 196
PRLP 200
ProducerBob Weinstock
Miles Davis chronology
Miles Davis with Sonny Rollins
(1954)		 Miles Davis All Stars, Vols. 1 & 2
(1955)		 The Musings of Miles
(1955)
Miles Davis All Stars, Volume 2
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The Encyclopedia of Popular Music(Vol. 1) [1]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music(Vol. 2) [2]

Miles Davis All Stars, Vols. 1 & 2 are a pair of separate but related 10" LP albums by Miles Davis recorded by Rudy Van Gelder on December 24, 1954 and released on Prestige Records as Miles Davis All Stars, Vol. 1 and Miles Davis All Stars, Vol. 2 the following year.[3][4][5]

The All Stars session featured two of Davis’s major be-bop contemporaries: pianist and composer Thelonious Monk and vibraphonist Milt Jackson, along with the same rhythm section that had been used on Davis's other recent albums—bassist Percy Heath and drummer Kenny Clarke; the later three comprised three-quarters of the Modern Jazz Quartet at this time.

After the 10" LP format was discontinued, the tracks would be broken up and reissued on the new 12" format: "Bags' Groove" on Bags' Groove (1957), paired with an alternate take; the other three on Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants (1959), paired with an alternate take of "The Man I Love" and an unrelated track from a later session with his First Great Quintet.

This would be the last Miles Davis LP issued by Prestige in the short-lived 10" format.[6] His next album, Musings of Miles (PRLP 7007), would be his first 12" LP, followed by Dig (PRLP 7012), which would be the first to repackage the older 10" material. Alternating albums of new and repackaged material would follow, until all the early Prestige material was now available in the new format.[7]

Track listing

Miles Davis All Stars, Vol. 1

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Bags' Groove" (Take 1)Milt Jackson11:16
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Swing Spring"Miles Davis10:46
Total length:21:54

Miles Davis All Stars, Vol. 2

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Bemsha Swing"
9:33
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."The Man I Love"
7:59
Total length:17:21

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.
  2. ↑ Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.
  3. ↑ Miles Davis All Stars, Volume 1, the Jazz Discography Project, accessed May 28, 2014.
  4. ↑ Miles Davis All Stars, Volume 1, Discogs.com, accessed May 28, 2014.
  5. ↑ Miles Davis All Stars, Volume 1, Miles Ahead: A Miles Davis Website, accessed May 28, 2014.
  6. ↑ Prestige 100/200 series 10" discography, the Jazz Discography Project, accessed May 31, 2014.
  7. ↑ Prestige 7000 series 12" discography, the Jazz Discography Project, accessed May 31, 2014.


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