Walkin'

Walkin'
Walkin'
Compilation album by Miles Davis
Released	March 1957
Recorded	April 3, 1954 (#3-5); April 29, 1954 (#1-2); Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey
Genre	Jazz, hard bop
Length	37:43
Label	Prestige; PRLP 7076
Producer	Bob Weinstock
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Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	^[3]

Walkin' (PRLP 7076) is a Miles Davis compilation album released in March 1957 by Prestige Records.^[1] The album compiles material previously released on two 10 inch LPs in 1954 (Miles Davis All-Star Sextet and Side One of Miles Davis Quintet, dropping "I’ll Remember April" from Side Two (which had been on the 12” LP Blue Haze, released the previous year, itself a collection of tunes from previous 10” LPs) and replacing it with the previously unreleased "Love Me or Leave Me" recorded at the same session. Here credited to the "Miles Davis All-Stars", the songs were recorded on 3 April and 29 April 1954 by two slightly different groups led by Davis. Both sessions were recorded at Rudy Van Gelder's home studio.

The earlier session was a quintet with David Schildkraut on alto saxophone, and produced the three tracks on side two. Schildkraut is the only musician not credited on the cover, and is otherwise almost unknown. Two of these tracks were originally released on the 10" LP Miles Davis Quintet, Prestige PRLP 185. The earlier release also included "I'll Remember April", recorded at the same time, now found on the Prestige album Blue Haze (PRLP 7054).^[4] Another tune from this session, "Love Me or Leave Me," was previously unreleased and substituted here for "I'll Remember April."

The second session, which makes up all of side one, was a sextet with J. J. Johnson on trombone and Lucky Thompson on tenor saxophone. The rhythm section was the same as the earlier session. These two tracks were originally issued on the 10" LP Miles Davis All-Star Sextet PRLP 182.^[5] The album's title track, a staple of Davis's live set for many years, was key to the emerging hard bop approach developed in the mid-1950s, Davis providing it with an anthem. The composition has been attributed by various sources to Jimmy Mundy, Miles Davis, and Gene Ammons. The copyright registration listed the composer as Richard E. Carpenter, a businessman and artist manager who had professional relationships with Mundy and Tadd Dameron, and was not known to be a musician or composer.^[6]

"Solar" was attributed to Davis and copyrighted in his name in 1963.^[7]^[8] Evidence revealed in 2012 showed that it is nearly identical to "Sonny", a piece written by guitarist Chuck Wayne in the 1940s, so Wayne is regarded as the composer of "Solar".^[7]^[8]

Track listing[]

Side one[]

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Walkin'"	Richard Carpenter	13:26
2.	"Blue 'n' Boogie"	Dizzy Gillespie, Frank Paparelli	8:16

Side two[]

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Solar"	Miles Davis	4:44
2.	"You Don't Know What Love Is"	Don Raye, Gene de Paul	4:23
3.	"Love Me or Leave Me"	Gus Kahn, Walter Donaldson	6:54

Personnel[]

Miles Davis – trumpet
Lucky Thompson – tenor saxophone on side one
J. J. Johnson – trombone on side one
David Schildkraut – alto saxophone on side two
Horace Silver – piano
Percy Heath – bass
Kenny Clarke – drums

References[]

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Editorial Staff, Cash Box (March 9, 1957). "March Album Releases" (PDF). The Cash Box. New York: The Cash Box Publishing Co. Inc. Retrieved 2 March 2020.
^ "Walkin' – Miles Davis All-Stars | AllMusic". allmusic.com. 2011. Retrieved 2 August 2011.
^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 341. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
^ April 3, 1954 Session Details, Miles Ahead: A Miles Davis Website, accessed May 26, 2014
^ April 29, 1954 Session Details, Miles Ahead: A Miles Davis Website, accessed May 22, 2014
^ Gavin, James (2011). Deep in a Dream: The Long Night of Chet Baker. Chicago Review Press. ISBN 978-1569767573.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Myers, Marc (July 5, 2012). "'Solar' Wasn't by Miles Davis". jazzwax.com. Archived from the original on May 9, 2016.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Meyer, Robinson (June 9, 2010). "The Time Miles Davis Stole (or Borrowed) a Song – and How It Ended Up on His Tombstone". The Atlantic. Retrieved August 3, 2020.

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[Cashbox57-1] Jump up to: ^a ^b Editorial Staff, Cash Box (March 9, 1957). "March Album Releases" (PDF). The Cash Box. New York: The Cash Box Publishing Co. Inc. Retrieved 2 March 2020.

[2] "Walkin' – Miles Davis All-Stars | AllMusic". allmusic.com. 2011. Retrieved 2 August 2011.

[Penguin-3] Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 341. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.

[4] April 3, 1954 Session Details, Miles Ahead: A Miles Davis Website, accessed May 26, 2014

[5] April 29, 1954 Session Details, Miles Ahead: A Miles Davis Website, accessed May 22, 2014

[6] Gavin, James (2011). Deep in a Dream: The Long Night of Chet Baker. Chicago Review Press. ISBN 978-1569767573.

[wax-7] Jump up to: ^a ^b Myers, Marc (July 5, 2012). "'Solar' Wasn't by Miles Davis". jazzwax.com. Archived from the original on May 9, 2016.

[Atlantic-8] Jump up to: ^a ^b Meyer, Robinson (June 9, 2010). "The Time Miles Davis Stole (or Borrowed) a Song – and How It Ended Up on His Tombstone". The Atlantic. Retrieved August 3, 2020.

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