Blue Period (album)

Blue Period
Studio album by
Miles Davis
Released1953
RecordedJanuary 17 and October 5, 1951
StudioApex Studio, New York City
GenreJazz
Length18:53
LabelPrestige
ProducerBob Weinstock
Miles Davis chronology
Young Man with a Horn
(1953) 		Blue Period
(1953) 		The Compositions of Al Cohn
(1953)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[2]

Blue Period is the third studio album by jazz musician Miles Davis. It was released in 1953 as a 10" LP, his second released by Prestige Records, recorded over the course of two 1951 recording sessions at New York's Apex Studio.[3][4][5]

  1. ^ "Blue Period – Miles Davis | AllMusic". Allmusic.com. 2011. Retrieved 2 August 2011.
  2. ^ Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.
  3. ^ Blue Period entry, the Jazz Discography Project, accessed May 21, 2014
  4. ^ Blue Period entry, Miles Ahead: A Miles Davis Website, accessed May 21, 2014
  5. ^ Blue Period, Discogs.com, accessed August 12, 2014