Steamin' with the Miles Davis Quintet

Steamin' with the Miles Davis Quintet
Steamin' with the Miles Davis Quintet
Studio album by Miles Davis
Released	July or August 1961
Recorded	May 11 and October 26, 1956
Studio	Van Gelder, Hackensack
Genre	Jazz
Length	40:00
Label	Prestige
Producer	Bob Weinstock
Miles Davis chronology

Last updated September 16, 2025

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[3]
DownBeat	^[4]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	^[5]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	^[6]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	^[7]

Steamin' with the Miles Davis Quintet is an album by the Miles Davis Quintet, released in 1961 through Prestige Records.^[1]^[2] The recording was made at two sessions on May 11 and October 26, 1956, that produced four albums: Steamin, Relaxin' with The Miles Davis Quintet , Workin' with The Miles Davis Quintet and Cookin' with the Miles Davis Quintet .

Reception

The contemporaneous DownBeat reviewer praised all of the musicians except pianist Red Garland, and concluded: "This album is a must for anyone seriously interested in jazz".^[4]

Track listing

Prestige – LP 7200

Side one
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Recording session	Length
1.	"Surrey with the Fringe on Top"	Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II	May 11, 1956	9:05
2.	"Salt Peanuts"	Dizzy Gillespie, Kenny Clarke	May 11, 1956	6:09
3.	"Something I Dreamed Last Night"	Sammy Fain, Jack Yellen, Herb Magidson	May 11, 1956	6:15

Side two
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Recording session	Length
1.	"Diane"	Lew Pollack, Ernö Rapée	May 11, 1956	7:49
2.	"Well, You Needn't"	Thelonious Monk	October 26, 1956	6:19
3.	"When I Fall in Love"	Victor Young, Edward Heyman	May 11, 1956	4:23
Total length:				40:00

Personnel

Miles Davis – trumpet
John Coltrane – tenor saxophone (except 3 and 6)
Red Garland – piano
Paul Chambers – bass
Philly Joe Jones – drums

References

1 2 Ostrow, Marty, ed. (July 22, 1961). "July Album Releases" (PDF). The Cash Box . New York: The Cash Box Publishing Co. Inc. p. 21. Archived (PDF) from the original on May 21, 2024.
1 2 DeVito, Chris; Fujioka, Yasuhiro; Schmaler, Wolf; Wild, David (2013). Porter, Lewis (ed.). The John Coltrane Reference. New York/Abingdon: Routledge. p. 429. ISBN 9780415634632.
↑ "Steamin' with the Miles Davis Quintet". All Music . Retrieved October 28, 2016.
1 2 DeMichael, Don (September 14, 1961). "Miles Davis: Steamin' with the Miles Davis Quintet". DownBeat . Vol. 28, no. 19. pp. 25–26.
↑ Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.
↑ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 342. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
↑ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 58. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.

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[CbJul61-1] 1 2 Ostrow, Marty, ed. (July 22, 1961). "July Album Releases" (PDF). The Cash Box . New York: The Cash Box Publishing Co. Inc. p. 21. Archived (PDF) from the original on May 21, 2024.

[CoRef-2] 1 2 DeVito, Chris; Fujioka, Yasuhiro; Schmaler, Wolf; Wild, David (2013). Porter, Lewis (ed.). The John Coltrane Reference. New York/Abingdon: Routledge. p. 429. ISBN 9780415634632.

[3] "Steamin' with the Miles Davis Quintet". All Music . Retrieved October 28, 2016.

[DB61-4] 1 2 DeMichael, Don (September 14, 1961). "Miles Davis: Steamin' with the Miles Davis Quintet". DownBeat . Vol. 28, no. 19. pp. 25–26.

[5] Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.

[Penguin-6] Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 342. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.

[RSJRG-7] Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 58. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.

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Discography
Prestige albums	Mating Call (with Tadd Dameron) Tenor Conclave Coltrane Interplay Wheelin' & Dealin' John Coltrane with the Red Garland Trio Soultrane Cattin' with Coltrane and Quinichette The Cats (with Tommy Flanagan and Kenny Burrell) Lush Life Settin' the Pace Standard Coltrane Kenny Burrell & John Coltrane Stardust Dakar The Believer Black Pearls Bahia The Last Trane Two Tenors
Blue Note albums	Blue Train Coltrane Time
Atlantic albums	Giant Steps Bags & Trane (with Milt Jackson) Coltrane Jazz My Favorite Things Olé Coltrane Coltrane Plays the Blues Coltrane's Sound The Avant-Garde
Impulse! albums	Africa/Brass Coltrane Duke Ellington & John Coltrane Ballads Impressions John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman Crescent A Love Supreme The John Coltrane Quartet Plays Ascension Meditations Kulu Sé Mama Expression Om Cosmic Music (with Alice Coltrane) Selflessness: Featuring My Favorite Things Transition Sun Ship Infinity Interstellar Space The Africa/Brass Sessions, Volume 2 First Meditations Dear Old Stockholm Stellar Regions Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album Blue World
With Miles Davis	Miles: The New Miles Davis Quintet 'Round About Midnight Cookin' Relaxin' Milestones Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants Kind of Blue Jazz Track Workin' Steamin' Someday My Prince Will Come Miles & Monk at Newport Basic Miles At Newport 1958 Jazz at the Plaza Vol. I 1958 Miles Miles Davis Quintet at Peacock Alley
With Thelonious Monk	The Complete 1957 Riverside Recordings Thelonious Himself Monk's Music Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane
Live albums	"Live" at the Village Vanguard Live at Birdland New Thing at Newport Live at the Village Vanguard Again! Live in Seattle Live in Japan Afro Blue Impressions The Paris Concert The European Tour Live Trane: The European Tours Bye Bye Blackbird Newport '63 The Complete 1961 Village Vanguard Recordings The Olatunji Concert: The Last Live Recording Live at the Half Note: One Down, One Up Offering: Live at Temple University A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle Evenings at the Village Gate: John Coltrane with Eric Dolphy
Compilations	Alternate Takes The Best of John Coltrane The Classic Quartet – Complete Impulse! Studio Recordings Coltrane for Lovers The Coltrane Legacy The Complete Columbia Recordings of Miles Davis with John Coltrane The Prestige Recordings Countdown: The Savoy Sessions Dial Africa: The Savoy Sessions Feelin' Good Gold Coast The Heavyweight Champion: The Complete Atlantic Recordings High Step The Major Works of John Coltrane Jupiter Variation Ken Burns Jazz: John Coltrane The Last Giant: Anthology Living Space To the Beat of a Different Drum Trane's Blues Trane's Modes
Compositions	"26-2" "Alabama" "Blue Train" "Central Park West" "Countdown" "Equinox" "Giant Steps" "Impressions" "Lazy Bird" "Moment's Notice" "Mr. P.C." "Naima" "Ogunde"
Documentaries	The Church of Saint Coltrane The World According to John Coltrane Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary
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Steamin' with the Miles Davis Quintet

Contents

Reception

Track listing

Personnel

References