Young Man with a Horn (Miles Davis album)

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Young Man with a Horn
Miles Davis Young Man With a Horn.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedMarch 1953 (1953-03) [1]
RecordedMay 9, 1952
Studio WOR Studios, NYC
Genre
Length22:21
Label Blue Note
BLP 5013
Producer Alfred Lion
Miles Davis chronology
The New Sounds
(1951)
Young Man with a Horn
(1953)
Blue Period
(1953)

Young Man with a Horn, also known as Miles Davis, Vol. 1, is the second 10-inch LP by American jazz trumpeter Miles Davis, recorded at WOR studios on May 9, 1952 and released on Blue Note the following year. [1] [2]

Contents

Background

Personal life

Young Man with a Horn was recorded on May 9, 1952, during Davis's struggles with heroin addiction. The album was the first of three 10" LPs recorded by Davis for Blue Note during the early 1950s. Davis states in his autobiography that his contract for Prestige Records, for whom he had recorded his first LP the previous year, was non-exclusive, but elsewhere he states the initial Prestige contract was for only one year. [3]

Release history

All cuts were initially issued as singles except "How Deep Is the Ocean." [4] [5] Young Man with a Horn was also reissued on Vogue in 1954. [6]

The original master takes were split and merged with Davis' two other sessions for Blue Note and re-released on 12 inch LPs Miles Davis, Vols. 1 & 2 in January and February 1956, shortly after Davis won the DownBeat reader's poll for best trumpeter. [7] [8]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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The Encyclopedia of Popular Music gave the album three-out-of-five stars. [9]

Track listing

Side 1
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Dear Old Stockholm"Traditional, Stan Getz, arr. by Davis4:12
2."Would'n You" Dizzy Gillespie 3:22
3."Yesterdays" Jerome Kern, Otto Harbach 3:42
Side 2
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
4."Chance It" (a.k.a. "Max Is Making Wax") Oscar Pettiford, credited to Davis3:05
5."Donna" (a.k.a. "Dig")Miles Davis3:22
6."How Deep Is the Ocean?" Irving Berlin 4:38
Total length:22:21

Personnel

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References

  1. 1 2 Editorial Staff, Billboard (March 21, 1953). "Other Records Released this Week". The Billboard . Cincinnati: The Billboard Publishing Co.
  2. Miles Davis session index by the Jazz Discography Project on Jazzdisco.org. Retrieved on April 6, 2014
  3. "Miles: the Autobiography", Miles Davis with Quincy Troupe, 1989, pg.140, pg.153
  4. Bob Blumenthal in the liner notes to the RVG Edition of Miles Davis, Volume 1, Blue Note 2001. He does not mention the exception of "How Deep Is the Ocean".
  5. Blue Note 78 rpm singles on 78discography.com. Retrieved on April 6, 2014
  6. 1 2 3 "Blue Note Records Catalog: 5000 series". www.jazzdisco.org. Retrieved 2024-01-20.
  7. Leonard Feather in the original liner notes to Miles Davis Volume 1
  8. "1955 DownBeat Readers Poll". downbeat.com. March 6, 2016. Archived from the original on March 6, 2016. Retrieved October 9, 2023.
  9. 1 2 Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0195313734.