Released 1953 | Length 18:53 Release date 1951 | |
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Recorded January 17 and October 5, 1951 Studio Apex Studio, New York City Blue Period(1953) The Compositions Of Al Cohn(1953) Similar Miles Davis albums, Jazz albums | ||
Blue Period (PRLP 140) is a 1953 10" LP album by Miles Davis, his second released by Prestige Records, recorded over the course of two 1951 recording sessions at New York's Apex Studio.
Contents
Background
"Bluing" and "Out of the Blue", two Davis compositions, were recorded on October 5, 1951, at the same session as the material for his first album The New Sounds (PRLP 124). "Blue Room", composed by Rodgers and Hart, was recorded earlier that year, at the same January 17 recording session as the three tracks used on the various artists LP Modern Jazz Trumpets (PRLP 113) This earlier session was Davis' first for Prestige.
Although Blue Period has never been reissued on compact disc, the tracks "Bluing" and "Out of the Blue" are featured on the currently available Dig (PRLP 7012), and two versions of "Blue Room" (including an alternate take) are on the CD of Miles Davis and Horns (PRLP 7025).
Personnel
On "Blue Room"
Songs
1Bluing9:56
2Blue Room2:50
3Out of the Blue6:17