Miles Davis All Stars, Vols. 1 & 2

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Miles Davis All Stars, Vols. 1 & 2
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Miles Davis All Stars, Vol. 1
Studio album by
Released1955
RecordedDecember 24, 1954
Studio Van Gelder Studio
Hackensack, New Jersey
Genre
LengthVol. 1: 21:54
Vol. 2: 17:21
Label Prestige
PRLP 196
PRLP 200
Producer Bob Weinstock
Miles Davis chronology
Miles Davis with Sonny Rollins
(1954)
Miles Davis All Stars, Vols. 1 & 2
(1955)
The Musings of Miles
(1955)
Miles Davis All Stars, Volume 2
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Miles Davis All Stars, Vols. 1 & 2 are a pair of separate but related 10" LP albums by Miles Davis recorded by Rudy Van Gelder on December 24, 1954 and released on Prestige Records as Miles Davis All Stars, Vol. 1 and Miles Davis All Stars, Vol. 2 the following year. [3] [4] [5]

Contents

The All Stars session featured two of Davis’s major be-bop contemporaries: pianist and composer Thelonious Monk and vibraphonist Milt Jackson, along with the same rhythm section that had been used on Davis's other recent albums—bassist Percy Heath and drummer Kenny Clarke; the later three comprised three-quarters of the Modern Jazz Quartet at this time.

After the 10" LP format was discontinued, the tracks would be broken up and reissued on the new 12" format: "Bags' Groove" on Bags' Groove (1957), paired with an alternate take; the other three on Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants (1959), paired with an alternate take of "The Man I Love" and an unrelated track from a later session with his First Great Quintet.

This would be the last Miles Davis LP issued by Prestige in the short-lived 10" format. [6] His next album, Musings of Miles (PRLP 7007), would be his first 12" LP, followed by Dig (PRLP 7012), which would be the first to repackage the older 10" material. Alternating albums of new and repackaged material would follow, until all the early Prestige material was now available in the new format. [7]

Track listing

Miles Davis All Stars, Vol. 1

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Bags' Groove" (Take 1) Milt Jackson 11:16
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Swing Spring"Miles Davis10:46
Total length:21:54

Miles Davis All Stars, Vol. 2

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Bemsha Swing"9:33
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."The Man I Love"7:59
Total length:17:21

Personnel

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