The New Sounds

The New Sounds
Studio album by
Released1951 (1951)
RecordedOctober 5, 1951
StudioApex Studio
New York City
GenreJazz
Length23:35
LabelPrestige
PRLP 124
ProducerBob Weinstock
Miles Davis chronology
Modern Jazz Trumpets
(1951)
The New Sounds
(1951)
Young Man with a Horn
(1953)
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The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[1]

The New Sounds is the debut solo studio album by the American jazz musician Miles Davis. Released in late 1951 as a 10-inch LP, it is his first album as a bandleader and his first full album for Prestige Records. Davis had previously contributed three tracks to the Prestige compilation LP Modern Jazz Trumpets and appeared as a sideman on the 10-inch LP Lee Konitz: The New Sounds.[2]

  1. ^ Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.
  2. ^ Prestige 10" LP discography, the Jazz Discography Project, accessed May 21, 2014