Featuring JOHN COLTRANE - CANNONBAL ADDERLEY - BOBBY JASPAR
DON ELLIOT, WYNTON KELLY AND TOMMY FLANAGAN
ALL TRACKS PREVIOUSLY UNISSUED !!
This release presents tree rare never before heard Miles Davis performances taken from Birdland broadcasts made in 1952, 1957 and 1959. They present Miles in various contexts. First, with his 1959 sextet featuring John Coltrane and Cannonball Adderley (on the very same night that he would be savagely beaten by a cop at the entrance of the club). The second set was taped in 1957 in a quintet format with Bobby Jaspar on tenor sax. The third broadcast dates from 1952 and has Miles as the only horn in a group with Don Elliot and Beryl Booker.
As a bonus, an additional unissued track by Miles, which wasn’t recorded at Birdland. This 1959 version of “So What” was taped at the Chicago Stadium with Cannonball as the only other horn, in his only known quintet performance with the trumpeter.
PERSONNEL:
MILES DAVIS, trumpet on all tracks with:
[1-3] JOHN COLTRANE, tenor sax
JULIAN “CANNONBALL” ADDERLEY, alto sax
WYNTON KELLY, piano - PAUL CHAMBERS, bass
JIMMY COBB, drums
AFRS (Armed Forces Radio Service)
radio broadcast, Ray Barrett (announcer). Birdland,
New York, August 25, 1959.
[ 4-7]
BOBBY JASPAR, tenor sax (flute on 6)
TOMMY FLANAGAN, piano - PAUL CHAMBERS, bass
PHILLY JOE JONES, drums
ABC Dancing Party radio broadcast. Birdland,
New York, between October 17 & 31, 1957.
[8-10]
DON ELLIOT, vibes & mellophone
CHUCK WAYNE, guitar - BERYL BOOKER, piano
CLYDE LOMBARDI, bass - CONNIE KAY, drums
WJZ radio broadcast, Birdland, New York,
April 26, 1952.
*BONUS TRACK (11)
JULIAN “CANNONBALL” ADDERLEY, alto sax
WYNTON KELLY, piano - PAUL CHAMBERS, bass
JIMMY COBB, drums
Chicago Stadium, Chicago, Illinois, August 7, 1959.
Tracks:
01. The Theme #1
02. So What
03. The Theme #2
04. All Of You
05. Four
06. Nature Boy
07. A Night In Tunisia [Incomplete]
08. Rifftide
09. It Could Happen To You
10. Wee Dot Into Birk’s Works (Theme)
11. So What*
Total time: 68: 23
BEPERKTE VOORRAAD, LEVERING OP BESTELLING.
