Artist/Исполнитель: The Miles Davis Quintet
Album/Альбом:
Relaxin’ With The Miles Davis Quintet
Year/Год выхода:
1956
Genre/Жанр: Jazz
Country/Страна:
US
Source/Источник: CD 2001, Remastered 1985,
Mono
Label/Лэйбл: Victor Japan VDJ
1503
Format/Формат: Flac+Cue+Log / MP3
VBR
Size/Размер: 217 MB / 62 MB
Scans/Сканы:
HiRes
Host/Хозяин: Narod
Artist/Исполнитель: The Miles Davis Quintet
Album/Альбом:
Relaxin’ With The Miles Davis Quintet
Year/Год выхода:
1956
Genre/Жанр: Jazz
Country/Страна:
US
Source/Источник: CD 2001, Remastered 1985,
Mono
Label/Лэйбл: Victor Japan VDJ
1503
Format/Формат: Flac+Cue+Log / MP3
VBR
Size/Размер: 217 MB / 62 MB
Scans/Сканы:
HiRes
Host/Хозяин: Narod
1. If I Were a Bell 8:16
2. You’re My Everything 5:21
3. I Could Write a Book 5:11
4. Oleo 5:54
5. It Could Happen to You 6:40
6. Woody’n You 5:03
Total time: 36:25
Editorial Reviews from Amazon.com:
This CD comes from the marathon 1956 Prestige sessions with the
first of Miles Davis’s great quintets: John Coltrane on tenor, Red
Garland on piano, Paul Chambers on bass, and Philly Joe Jones on
drums. The group recorded four LPs for Prestige, contemporaneous
with the early Columbia material recently celebrated on the
Davis-Coltrane Complete Columbia Studio Sessions. Relaxin’
emphasizes Davis’s concentrated ballad style, with his
middle-register trumpet played through a Harmon mute very close to
the microphone. What might be a mere buzz in lesser hands becomes
restrained passion and detailed expression on the slow tempos of
«You’re My Everything» and «It Could Happen to You,» while Davis
conveys joy on the faster tempo of «I Could Write a Book.» «If I
Were a Bell,» from Frank Loesser’s then contemporary Guys and
Dolls, is another melodic highlight.
The boppish side of the band is heard on Sonny Rollins’s «Oleo,» a
tour de force animated by Chambers’s limber walking bass, and on
Dizzy Gillespie’s «Woody ‘n’ You,» the only tune with Davis playing
his trumpet with an open bell. Coltrane was entering a period of
sustained musical growth, still beholden to Charlie Parker and
Rollins, but with flashes of the convulsive power and incendiary
questing that his work would soon attain. As different as the two
horns are, they reflect the band’s ineffable mix of hot and cool
elements, from Garland’s masterful vamps to the explosive power of
Philly Joe Jones. Davis and his cohort were defining the modern
mainstream, providing models that are still durable today. —Stuart
Broomer
