Workin' with the Miles Davis Quintet

Workin' with the Miles Davis Quintet
Studio album by
Miles Davis
Releasedc. January 1960 (1960-01)[1]
RecordedMay 11 and October 26, 1956
StudioVan Gelder (Hackensack)
GenreJazz
Length41:59
LabelPrestige
PRLP 7166
ProducerBob Weinstock
Miles Davis chronology
Jazz Track
(1959) 		Workin' with the Miles Davis Quintet
(1960) 		Sketches of Spain
(1960)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
All About Jazzfavorable[2]
AllMusic[3]
DownBeat[4]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[5]
Tom HullA−[9]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings[8]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[6]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide[7]

Workin' with the Miles Davis Quintet is an album by the Miles Davis Quintet which was released c. January 1960 through Prestige Records.[1] It was recorded in two sessions on May 11 and October 26, 1956 that produced four albums — this one, Relaxin' with the Miles Davis Quintet, Steamin' with the Miles Davis Quintet and Cookin' with the Miles Davis Quintet.

Track 2 is a composition written for Davis by Eddie Vinson (see Blue Haze for more details). "Trane's Blues" (also known as "Vierd Blues", a tongue-in-cheek reference to Blue Note founder Francis Wolff's heavily accented verdict on it), also credited to Davis, is in fact a John Coltrane composition (originally titled "John Paul Jones", and from an earlier session led by bassist Paul Chambers; before the closing statement of theme, Coltrane and Davis play a bit of Charlie Parker's "The Hymn").

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  3. ^ "Workin' with the Miles Davis Quintet". AllMusic. Retrieved October 28, 2016.
  4. ^ Gleason, Ralph J. (March 17, 1960). "Miles Davis: Workin' with the Miles Davis Quintet". DownBeat. Vol. 27, no. 6. p. 34.
  5. ^ Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.
  6. ^ DeCurtis, Anthony; Henke, James; George-Warren, Holly, eds. (October 27, 1992). The Rolling Stone Album Guide (3rd ed.). Random House. p. 179. ISBN 0679737294.
  7. ^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 58. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
  8. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 342. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
  9. ^ Hull, Tom (n.d.). "Jazz (1940s-50s)". tomhull.com. Retrieved March 3, 2020.
  10. ^ DeVito, Chris; Fujioka, Yasuhiro; Schmaler, Wolf; Wild, David (2013). Porter, Lewis (ed.). The John Coltrane Reference. New York/Abingdon: Routledge. p. 448. ISBN 9780415634632. Retrieved January 2, 2020.
  11. ^ "Workin' with the Miles Davis Quintet". The Billboard. The Billboard Publishing Co. February 8, 1960. Retrieved October 22, 2019.
  12. ^ "December Album Releases" (PDF). The Cash Box. The Cash Box Publishing Co. Inc., NY. December 12, 1959. Retrieved October 22, 2019.
  13. ^ "Jazz Picks of the Week" (PDF). The Cash Box. The Cash Box Publishing Co. Inc., NY. February 6, 1960. Retrieved October 22, 2019.