Miles Davis Miles Davis And The Modern Jazz Giants on LP

Here are four tracks from one of the classic sessions of all time when a combination of giants gathered in Rudy Van Gelder's studio on Christmas Eve afternoon and early dark, 1954. With Thelonious Monk and three quarters of the Modern Jazz Quartet (Jackson, Heath, and Clarke) as his accomplices, Miles Davis blends sophisticated harmonic knowledge with raw, spontaneous invention to produce extraordinary music. The two takes of "The Man I Love" are quite different within their basic similarity while "Round Midnight" was recorded by the great Davis Quintet of 1956 - Coltrane, Garland, Chambers, Philly Joe Jones.

Miles Davis (trumpet)

Milt Jackson (vibraphone)

John Coltrane (tenor saxophone)

Thelonious Monk / Red Garland (piano)

Paul Chambers / Percy Heath (bass)

Kenny Clarke / Philly Joe Jones (drums)

1. The Man I Love (Take 2) 

2. Swing Spring 

3. 'Round Midnight 

4. Bemsha Swing 

5. The Man I Love (Take 1)