Miles Davis - Cookin' With The Miles Davis Quintet (Mono)

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  • Cut from the analogue masters by renowned mastering engineer Kevin Gray
  • 180-gram pressing by Quality Record Pressings
  • Deluxe high-gloss tip-on album jacket
$90.00
  • Cut from the analogue masters by renowned mastering engineer Kevin Gray
  • 180-gram pressing by Quality Record Pressings
  • Deluxe high-gloss tip-on album jacket

"Analogue Productions has continued to push its own already high bar higher still. Its Quality Record Pressings plant is delivering the best vinyl discs to be found, its jackets and cover reproduction quality have hit new levels, and it continues to have the best in the biz - such as Kevin Gray for this series (25 mono LPs from the Prestige label's exceptional late-50s run) cut lacquers from original analog master tapes. ... (Cookin') does have a warm, quite intimate perspective, with a fine sense of instrumental textures." - Wayne Garcia, The Absolute Sound, December 2015

Cookin’ With the Miles Davis Quintet is the first classic album of four total that emerged from two marathon and fruitful sessions recorded in 1956 (the other three discs released in Cookin’s wake were Workin’, Relaxin’ and Steamin’). All the albums were recorded live in the studio, as Davis sought to capture, with Rudy Van Gelder’s expert engineering, the sense of a club show á la the Café Bohemia in New York, with his new quintet, featuring tenor saxophonist John Coltrane. In Miles’s own words, he says he called this album Cookin’ because “that’s what we did—came in and cooked.” What’s particularly significant about this Davis album is his first recording of what became a classic tune for him: “My Funny Valentine.” Hot playing is also reserved for the uptempo number “Tune Up,” which revs with the zoom of both the leader and ’Trane.


Originally released in 1957


Miles Davis, trumpet
John Coltrane, tenor saxophone
Red Garland, piano
Paul Chambers, bass
Philly Joe Jones, drums 

Side 1
My Funny Valentine
Blues By Five

Side 2
Airegin
Tune Up
When Lights Are Low
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By Genre Jazz
By Labels Analogue Productions (Impulse)
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