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Author Davis, Miles. Performer.

Title Miles ahead / Miles Davis.

Imprint New York : Columbia/Legacy, ℗1997.

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 New Britain, Main Library - Audio-Visual Materials  CD JAZZ DAVIS    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Media Room  CD MJ DAVI MA    Check Shelf
Description 1 audio disc (52 min., 5 sec.) : digital, stereo ; 4 3/4 in.
Playing Time 005205
Note Compact disc.
Jazz.
Analog recording.
Insert includes original liner notes by George Avakian and André Hodier with additional historical commentary by Phil Schaap.
Performer Miles Davis, flugelhorn ; with orchestra directed by Gil Evans.
Credits Produced by George Avakian.
Note First ten selections previously released in 1957 as Columbia CL 1041.
Event Recorded in 1957.
Contents Springsville / John Carisi (3:27) -- The maids of Cadiz / Leo Delibes, arr. by Gil Evans (3:53) -- The Duke / Dave Brubeck (3:35) -- My ship / Ira Gershwin, Kurt Weill (4:28) -- Miles ahead / Miles Davis, Gil Evans (3:29) -- Blues for Pablo / Gil Evans (5:18) -- New rhumba / Ahmad Jamal (4:37) -- Medley: The meaning of the blues / Bobby Troup, Leah Worth (2:48) ; Lament / J.J. Johnson (2:15) -- I don't wanna be kissed (by anyone but you) / Harold Spina, Jack Elliott (3:05) -- Springsville (remake take 7) / John Carisi (3:14) -- Blues for Pablo (take 1) / Gil Evans (3:28) -- Medley (rehearsal): The meaning of the blues / Bobby Troup, Leah Worth ; Lament / J.J. Johnson (5:08) -- I don't wanna be kissed (by anyone but you) / Harold Spina, Jack Elliott (3:12).
Summary Davis teams up with Evans in what may be the most significant album that would later produce two of Davis's best albums, Porgy and Bess and Sketches of Spain.
Subject Jazz -- 1951-1960.
Jazz. (OCoLC)fst00982165
Chronological Term 1951-1960
Genre/Form CDs.
Jazz. (OCoLC)fst01726653
Cool jazz. (OCoLC)fst01920080
Cool jazz.
Jazz.
Added Author Evans, Gil, 1912-1988. Conductor. Arranger.
Carisi, John. Springsville.
Delibes, Léo, 1836-1891. Filles de Cadix; arranged.
Brubeck, Dave. Duke.
Weill, Kurt, 1900-1950. Lady in the dark. My ship.
Evans, Gil, 1912-1988. Blues for Pablo.
Jamal, Ahmad, 1930- New rhumba.
Troup, Bobby, 1918-1999. Great man. Meaning of the blues.
Johnson, J. J., 1924-2001. Lament.
Elliott, Jack, 1914-1972. I don't wanna be kissed.
Added Title Maids of Cadiz.
My ship.
Standard No. 074646512128
7464651212
886974919728
Music No. CK 65121 Columbia/Legacy
CL 1041 Columbia
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