Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants

Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants
Compilation album by
Miles Davis
ReleasedMay 1959[1]
RecordedDecember 24, 1954 and October 26, 1956
StudioVan Gelder (Hackensack)
GenreJazz
Length42:12
LabelPrestige
PRLP 7150
ProducerBob Weinstock
Miles Davis chronology
Porgy and Bess
(1959) 		Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants
(1959) 		Kind of Blue
(1959)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
All About Jazz(favorable)[2]
AllMusic[3]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[4]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings[5]

Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants (PRLP 7150) is an album by Miles Davis, released on Prestige Records in 1959. Most of the material comes from a session on December 24, 1954, featuring Thelonious Monk and Milt Jackson, and had been previously released in the discontinued ten inch LP format. "Swing Spring" was originally released on the 10"LP Miles Davis All Stars, Volume 1 (PRLP 196), and "Bemsha Swing" and "The Man I Love" (take 2) had been previously released on Volume 2 (PRLP 200).[6] "'Round Midnight" is newly released, and comes from the same sessions by Davis's new quintet in 1956 which resulted in Steamin' with the Miles Davis Quintet (PRLP 7200) and three other albums to fulfill Davis's contract with Prestige.[7]

  1. ^ "Billboard - May 4, 1959". Billboard. 4 May 1959. Retrieved October 28, 2016.
  2. ^ "All About Jazz – Miles Davis: Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants". All About Jazz. Retrieved October 28, 2016.
  3. ^ "All Music – Miles Davis: Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants". 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. 341. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
  6. ^ "Prestige Records Catalog: 100, 200 series". The Jazz Discography Project. Retrieved October 28, 2016.
  7. ^ "October 26, 1956 Session Details". Miles Ahead: A Miles Davis Website. Retrieved October 28, 2016.