Relaxin' with the Miles Davis Quintet

Relaxin' with the Miles Davis Quintet
Studio album by
Miles Davis
ReleasedMarch 1958 (1958-03)[1][2]
RecordedMay 11 and October 26, 1956
StudioVan Gelder (Hackensack)
GenreJazz, hard bop
Length36:13
LabelPrestige
PRLP 7129
ProducerBob Weinstock
Miles Davis chronology
Bags' Groove
(1957) 		Relaxin' with the Miles Davis Quintet
(1958) 		Ascenseur pour l'échafaud
(1958)
Professional ratings
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AllMusic[3]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[4]
Tom HullA[6]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings[5]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[7]

Relaxin' with the Miles Davis Quintet is an album by the Miles Davis Quintet which was released in March 1958 through Prestige Records.[1][2] It was recorded at two sessions on May 11 and October 26, 1956 that produced four albums — this one, Steamin' with the Miles Davis Quintet, Workin' with the Miles Davis Quintet and Cookin' with the Miles Davis Quintet. These four albums are considered to be among the best performances in the whole hard bop subgenre.[3] The album was remastered by Rudy Van Gelder in 2005 for Prestige Records. This album includes dialogue snippets taken from the original master reel. As the title suggests, it also emphasizes Miles Davis' concentrated medium-register ballad playing.

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  3. ^ a b "Miles Davis – Relaxin' with the Miles Davis Quintet". AllMusic. Retrieved October 28, 2016.
  4. ^ Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.
  5. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 342. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
  6. ^ Hull, Tom (n.d.). "Jazz (1940s-50s)". tomhull.com. Retrieved March 3, 2020.
  7. ^ The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. pp. 179, 181.