Miles Davis Walkin 1957 LP Metronome JJ Johnson Horace Silver Gelder Rare Import
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Miles Davis Walkin 1957 LP Metronome JJ Johnson Horace Silver Lucky Thompson Rudy Van Gelder Rare Import KIller Jam Session with Top Players --- Essential Miles
Made in Denmark by Metronome Records A/B Bent Ibsen Offset 33 1/3 R.P.M. L.P. Microgroove
Walkin' (PRLP 7076) is a Miles Davis compilation album released in March 1957 by Prestige Records. 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 April 3 and 29, 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, which 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). 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. Johnsonon trombone and Lucky Thompson on tenor saxophone. The rhythm section was identical to the earlier session. These two tracks were originally issued on the 10" LP Miles Davis All-Star Sextet PRLP 182. 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.
- 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
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