Released 1956 Conception
(1951) Blue Period
(1951) Producer Bob Weinstock Genre Jazz | Length 39:36 Release date 1956 Label Prestige Records | |
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Recorded 1949-1951
New York City Similar Blue Period, First Miles, Miles Davis Quintet at Peacock, Basic Miles: The Classic P, Amsterdam Concert | ||
Conception is a compilation album issued by Prestige Records in 1956 as PRLP 7013, featuring Miles Davis on a number of tracks. The album features other notable musicians such as Lee Konitz, Sonny Rollins, Stan Getz, Gerry Mulligan and Zoot Sims. The cover was designed by Bob Parent. The tracks had all been previously released by Prestige in discontinued formats, either on 10 inch LPs, or as 78rpm singles. In particular, the entirety of the 10"LP Lee Konitz: The New Sounds (PRLP 116) makes up all of side 1.
Contents
Track listing
- "Odjenar" (George Russell) - 2:52
- "Hibeck" (Lee Konitz) - 3:07
- "Yesterdays" (Jerome Kern) - 2:27
- "Ezz-Thetic" (Russell) - 2:54
- "Indian Summer" (Victor Herbert) - 2:35
- "Duet for Saxophone and Guitar" (Konitz) - 2:41
- "Conception" (George Shearing) - 4:03
- "My Old Flame" (Sam Coslow, Arthur Johnston) - 6:36
- "Intoit" (Stan Getz) - 3:22
- "Prezervation" (Getz) - 2:44
- "I May Be Wrong" (Gerry Mulligan) - 3:28
- "So What" (Mulligan) - 2:44
Note: The final track, "So What", is not the composition of the same name composed by Miles Davis from the 1959 album Kind of Blue.
June 21, 1949 (NYC)
"Prezervation"
originally released on the 78rpm single:
January 6 (NYC)
"Intoit"
originally released on the 78rpm single:
March 15 (NYC)
"I May Be Wrong"
"So What"
"I May Be Wrong" and "So What" were originally issued on the 10"LP Chubby Jackson All Star Big Band (PRLP 105), although they are here credited to Gerry Mulligan.
March 8 (NYC)
"Odjenar", "Hibeck", "Yesterdays", "Ezz-Thetic"
March 13 (NYC)
"Indian Summer", "Duet for Saxophone and Guitar"
All six Lee Konitz tracks were originally issued on the 10"LP Lee Konitz: The New Sounds (PRLP 116), which is reissued in its entirety here. The tracks with Miles Davis as a sideman were recorded after Davis' first Prestige session, and before Davis' own debut album, also called The New Sounds (PRLP 124). Konitz and Davis had previously worked together on the Birth of the Cool sessions.
October 5 (Apex Studios, NYC)
"Conception", "My Old Flame"
Both Miles Davis tracks were previously released on Miles Davis: the New Sounds (PRLP 124), Davis' first album. The other two tracks from that album were reissued on Dig (PRLP 7012), and "Conception" and "My Old Flame" have been added as bonus tracks to the later reissues of the Dig CD.
Songs
1OdjenarLee Konitz2:53
2HibeckLee Konitz3:07
3YesterdaysLee Konitz2:27