Someday My Prince Will Come (Album)
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Someday My Prince Will Come is a jazz album by Miles Davis , recorded in three recording sessions on March 7, 20 and 21, 1961, released on Columbia Records in 1961.
The album
After a world tour in 1960, John Coltrane left the Miles Davis Quintet to pursue his own plans. He went z. Partly because, in his opinion, Davis was not ready to face the challenges of young musicians of the early 1960s like Ornette Coleman . Miles Davis temporarily took Sonny Stitt into the band, but he left in early 1961.
In March 1961, the trumpeter brought his band to the Columbia studio for the first recordings since the album Kind of Blue (1959) . They recorded a blues called Pfrancing (a reference to Davis' wife's name) and another track called Drag-Dog . Davis was not particularly happy with the result. He called Coltrane and asked if he had time to play the next day; Coltrane made no promises. The following day, Davis decided Some Day My Prince Will Come take - the title comes from the Walt Disney film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs ( Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs , 1937). His saxophonist Hank Mobley was playing his melodic solo in the classic hard bop style, when suddenly Coltrane appeared in the studio and "played two solos that overshadow everything else"
Jimmy Cobb reported: “The red light was on and we were in the middle of the act when Trane showed up at the studio. As we played on, he put his horn together and Miles wrote him the chords on a scrap of paper. Then he put on the horn and played this incredible solo. To this day I don't know how he managed to find his way around a number so quickly that he didn't even know. Hank was amazed at how confident Trane was with the chords. ” Coltrane also plays in Teo , the only modal number of this session with a fascinating Eastern flair. Teo is very similar to the Indian-influenced modal music that Coltrane often dealt with in the early years of his own quintet.
With the exception of the title track and Teo , Davis recorded the album in a quintet line-up. It was Davis' last studio session with Hank Mobley; This also ended Miles' collaboration with Coltrane, which had existed with interruptions since 1955, as well as with the drummer Philly Joe Jones . Jones appeared briefly at the session and played at "Blues No. 2 ”, which did not appear on the original 1961 album.
The titles
- Someday My Prince Will Come ( Frank E. Churchill , Larry Morey )
- Old Folks (Dedette Lee Hill, Willard Robison )
- Pfrancing (Miles Davis) [No Blues]
- Drad-Dog (Miles Davis)
- Teo (Miles Davis)
- I Thought About You ( Johnny Mercer , Jimmy Van Heusen )
- The CD edition also contains the title Blues No. 2 , on which Philly Joe Jones participated, as well as an "alternate take" from Someday My Prince Will Come .
- The picture on the album cover shows Davis' wife, Frances.
Literature / sources
- Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD . 6th edition. Penguin, London 2002, ISBN 0-14-051521-6 .
- Miles Davis: The Autobiography . Munich, Heyne, 2000
- Erik Nisenson Round About Midnight - A portrait of Miles Davis . Vienna, Hannibal, 1985
- Peter Wießmüller: Miles Davis - his life, his music, his records . Gauting, Oreos (Collection Jazz) 1985
Remarks
- ↑ after Nisenson, p. 138
- ↑ Davis' favorite for the Coltrane successor was Wayne Shorter in 1960; see Miles Davis, p. 337
- ↑ cit. after Cook / Morton, p. 376
- ↑ cit. after Nisenson, p. 138
- ↑ A dedication to Miles Davis' producer Teo Macero
- ↑ On the original cover of the album was by the Miles Davis Sextet talk
- ↑ in April Miles played again live with Mobley at the Black Hawk jazz club (LP: Miles Davis in person: Friday Night at the Black Hawk, San Francisco ), in May at Carnegie Hall (LP: Miles Davis at Carnegie Hall 1961 )