Cookin' with the Miles Davis Quintet

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Cookin' with the Miles Davis Quintet
Miles Davis - Cookin' with the Miles Davis Quintet.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedJuly 1957 (1957-07)[1][2]
RecordedOctober 26, 1956
StudioVan Gelder Studio, Hackensack
GenreJazz
Length34:02
LabelPrestige
PRLP 7094
ProducerBob Weinstock
Miles Davis chronology
Walkin'
(1957)
Cookin' with the Miles Davis Quintet
(1957)
Miles Ahead
(1957)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic4.5/5 stars[3]
Tom HullA–[7]
Music Box5/5 stars[4]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings4/4 stars[6]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide5/5 stars[5]

Cookin' with the Miles Davis Quintet is an album recorded in 1956 by the Miles Davis Quintet in Rudy Van Gelder's studio in Hackensack, New Jersey, and released in July 1957.[1][2] As the musicians had to pay for the studio time (a result of a rather modest contract with Prestige), their recordings are practically live. Two sessions 11 May 1956 and 26 October in the same year resulted in four albums—this one, Relaxin' with the Miles Davis Quintet, Steamin' with the Miles Davis Quintet and Workin' with the Miles Davis Quintet.

It was the first of the four LPs to be released. In response to the album title, Davis said, "After all, that's what we did—came in and cooked".[8]

The album was originally released on CD in the U.S. in 1987, and it was remastered for CD most recently by Rudy Van Gelder again in 2006 for Prestige Records.

Reid Miles designed the album's cover and Phil Hays provided the illustration.[9]

Track listing[]

Prestige – LP 7094:

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."My Funny Valentine"Richard Rodgers6:04
2."Blues by Five"Miles Davis10:23
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Airegin"Sonny Rollins4:26
2."Tune Up"
"When Lights are Low"
Miles Davis
Benny Carter, Spencer Williams
13:09
Total length:34:02

Personnel[]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b DeVito, Chris; Fujioka, Yasuhiro; Schmaler, Wolf; Wild, David (2013). Porter, Lewis (ed.). The John Coltrane Reference. New York/Abingdon: Routledge. p. 447. ISBN 9780415634632. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b "July Album Releases" (PDF). The Cash Box. New York: The Cash Box Publishing Co. 20 July 1957. Retrieved 21 June 2019.
  3. ^ AllMusic review
  4. ^ Music Box review
  5. ^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 57. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
  6. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 342. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
  7. ^ Hull, Tom (n.d.). "Jazz (1940s-50s)". tomhull.com. Retrieved March 3, 2020.
  8. ^ PRESTIGE LP 7094: Cookin' with The Miles Davis Quintet Archived 2013-04-11 at archive.today. Retrieved 20 July 2008.
  9. ^ http://www.jazzanddraw.com/miles-davis-lp-cover/
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