Walkin '
| Walkin ' | |
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| Miles Davis All Stars studio album | |
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Publication |
1957 |
| Label (s) | Prestige Records |
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Format (s) |
LP, CD |
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Title (number) |
see edition history |
| occupation | see edition history |
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Studio (s) |
Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack (New Jersey) |
Walkin ' is a jazz - album by Miles Davis , the 1957 Prestige Records was released, while the title track of the album.
History of the recordings
Miles Davis was somewhat out of the spotlight in 1953/1954 due to his drug addiction. In early 1954, he had a badly paid gig at the Bluebird Inn in Detroit . At the other end of town, the young and talented Clifford Brown was playing with Max Roach . Under the impression of this concert, at which Davis made a spontaneous and emotionally moving brief appearance, he decided to overcome his drug addiction and get his career back on track. Miles Davis had not been in the studio since May 1953; at that time he had recorded the tracks " When Lights Are Low ", " Tune Up ", " Miles Ahead " and " Smooch " with Charles Mingus , John Lewis , Percy Heath and Max Roach for Prestige Records , which were published in 1954 on the 10-inch LP Miles Davis Quartet (PRLP 161) was released and in 1956 on the 12-inch LP Blue Haze (PRLP 7054).
In early March 1954 he made recordings again with the pianist Horace Silver , Percy Heath and Art Blakey for Blue Note , which are considered evidence of Miles' recovery: they are among the most rhythmically aggressive that he recorded up to that point in time. The pieces appeared in 1954 on the 10-inch LP Miles Davis, Vol. 3 (BLP 5040) and in 1955 on the 12-inch LP Miles Davis Volume 2 (BLP 1502). A week later he recorded for Prestige with the same rhythm section. During the session on March 15, 1954, the tracks " Four ", " Old Devil Moon " and " Blue Haze " were created, which also appeared on the Miles Davis Quartet and later on Blue Haze .
The walkin ' recordings
The April 3, 1954 session
A good three weeks later, Miles Davis went back to the recording studio with his rhythm section; this time he had hired the young alto saxophonist Dave Schildkraut , who sounds astonishingly like Charlie Parker (whose Parker mannerisms are somewhat annoying). It recorded four titles: In the 1963 Davis attributed composition " Solar ", whose harmony to the swing classic " How High the Moon recalls," comes the "cup-mute" ( stuffed trumpeter) sound to the fullest advantage. The ballad " You Do not Know What Love Is " Davis knew from his days in Billy Eckstine -Orchester; a somewhat clumsy phrasing is noticeable in the interpretation. The fast “ Love Me or Leave Me ” has a fluid and dry phrasing that is based primarily on Kenny Clarke's broom work. The track " I'll Remember April " was first released on Walkin ' previous album Blue Haze .
The April 29, 1954 session
At the end of April, Miles Davis was ready to record the recordings of " Walkin ' " and " Blue' n Boogie " with an expanded cast . Today they are part of the classic hard bop repertoire . The three wind players of the Miles Davis All Stars were trumpet player JJ Johnson and saxophonist Lucky Thompson . The recordings of this band were in stark contrast to the cool sounds of the Miles Davis nonet of 1949/50. Walkin ' was straightforward and almost gruff, with a bluesy “funky sound”. Peter Wießmüller notes about the title: “It is performed in a 'narrative' medium tempo, with the rhythm section based on an amazingly closed timing. The balance between elasticity and inertia is always at the cutting edge. "
Miles Davis said of that moment in his autobiography: “Man, this album changed my whole life and was the beginning of my second career. For this session I got JJ Johnson and Lucky Thompson because I wanted a full sound: Lucky for that Ben Webster thing and JJ with his thick, fat tone for the bebop sound. (...) After this session we knew that something great had been achieved, even Bob Weinstock and Rudy were enthusiastic about it. But we had no idea what effect the album would have. This music was awesome, with Horace laying his 'funky' piano underneath and Art pushing us on with his hard rhythms. I wanted to give the music back the fire and improvisation of bebop; but I also wanted that 'funky' blues thing in music and that was what Horace Silver brought in. "
As Horace Silver later recalled, Davis had hired Lucky Thompson to bring some arrangements that were first tried out in the studio. Since the result was unsatisfactory, Davis resorted to head arrangements of well-known pieces and, according to Ian Carr, the musicians 'frustration at the beginning of the session was a major factor in the following liberated style of playing in Davis' first album masterpiece .
Edition history
- 10 inch LPs, released in 1954
| Miles Davis All Star Sextet PRLP 182 |
Miles Davis Quintet PRLP 185 |
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| Walkin ' | Solar |
| Blue 'n Boogie | You don't know what love is |
| I'll remember April | |
| Cast: Miles Davis ( tp ), JJ Johnson ( trb ), Lucky Thompson ( ts ), Horace Silver ( p ), Percy Heath ( b ), Kenny Clarke ( dr ) |
Cast: Miles Davis (tp), Dave Schildkraut ( as ), Horace Silver (p), Percy Heath (b), Art Blakey (dr) |
| Recorded on April 29, 1954 | Recorded on April 3, 1954 |
- 12 inch LP, released in 1957
| Walkin ' PRLP 7076 |
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| title | length | author | |
| A. | Walkin ' | 13:26 | Richard Carpenter |
| Blue 'n Boogie | 8:15 | Dizzy Gillespie / Frank Paparelli | |
| B. | Solar | 4:45 | Miles Davis / Chuck Wayne |
| You don't know what love is | 4:20 | Gene De Paul / Don Raye | |
| Love Me or Leave Me recorded at the April 3, 1954 session, not yet released |
7:00 | Walter Donaldson / Gus Kahn | |
swell
- Erik Nisenson: Round About Midnight. A portrait by Miles Davis. Hannibal, Vienna 1985, ISBN 3-85445-021-4 .
- ↑ page 72
- Peter Wießmüller: Miles Davis. His life, his music, his records. Oreos, Gauting-Buchendorf 1985, ISBN 3-923657-04-8 (Collection Jazz).
- Miles Davis: The Autobiography. Heyne, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-453-17177-2 ( Heyne books 01, Heyne general series 13184).
- ↑ page 241
- Retrieved from jazzdisco.org on May 10, 2010
Web links
- Prestige Records record sleeves including Miles Davis All Star Sextet , Walkin ' on birkajazz.com
- Miles Davis Quintet record sleeve at discogs.com
- Original liner notes
Remarks
- ↑ " Solar " is based on a composition by Chuck Wayne called " Sonny " (named after Sonny Berman , the lead trumpeter of the Woody Herman Band, with whom Chuck Wayne was working at the time). Davis got to know the title while visiting the band when Berman played it for Davis. Larry Appelbaum Chuck Wayne, Sonny & Solar
- ↑ which came out at the time of the Walkin ' sessions as a 10-inch LP entitled Classics in Jazz: Miles Davis ( Capitol H 459) and in 1957 as a 12-inch LP Birth of the Cool (Capitol T 792).