Cookin' with the Miles Davis Quintet | ||||
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Released | July 1957[1][2] | |||
Recorded | October 26, 1956 | |||
Studio | Van Gelder Studio Hackensack, New Jersey | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 34:02 | |||
Label | Prestige PRLP 7094 | |||
Producer | Bob Weinstock | |||
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Cookin' with the Miles Davis Quintet is a studio album by the Miles Davis Quintet which was released in July 1957 through Prestige Records.[1][2] The recording sessions were at Rudy Van Gelder's studio in Hackensack, New Jersey in 1956. As the musicians had to pay for the studio time (a result of a rather modest contract with Prestige), their recordings are practically live.[citation needed] Two sessions on 11 May and 26 October 1956 resulted in four albums — this one, Relaxin' with the Miles Davis Quintet, Steamin' with the Miles Davis Quintet and Workin' with the Miles Davis Quintet.
It was the first of the four LPs to be released. In response to the album title, Davis said, "After all, that's what we did—came in and cooked."[3] Reid Miles designed the album's cover and Phil Hays provided the illustration.[4]