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REVIEW    DownBeat  /  March 17, 1960


Miles Davis
Workin’ With The Miles Davis Quintet

Prestige 7166

★★★★★

Rudy Van Gelder Remasters


Even if it is quite possible that this is the least earth-shattering of the three Miles’ LPs from this series of sessions, it still rates 5 stars because it is the sort of thing that is going to be owned and played and dug and redug for all time.

Few bands in the history of jazz have had the quality of this group. And not the least indication of its total importance is the individual importance of all its members then and now. Imagine if somebody had had the sense and initiative to take King Oliver and his Creole Jazz Band into the studio and leave them alone to cut their book, or that [Billy] Eckstine’s great band had been let go at length. We can be everlastingly grateful to Bob Weinstock of Prestige for these recordings.

By now, everyone is familiar with the pattern and sound of this group. It does not seem sensible to essay any particular analysis here. Just let it go down like this: Red Garland plays particularly well on “Ahmad’s Blues” (it’s a trio) and Coltrane on “’Trane’s Blues.” But that’s just the way it hits me. Actually, the whole LP is a gas. I don’t see how anyone can do without it. —Ralph J. Gleason


Workin’ With The Miles Davis Quintet: It Never Entered My Mind; Four; In Your Own Sweet Way; The Theme (take 1); Trane’s Blues; Ahmad’s Blues; Half Nelson; The Theme (take 2).
Personnel: Davis, trumpet; John Coltrane, tenor saxophone; Red Garland, piano; Paul Chambers, bass; Philly Joe Jones, drums.


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