The First Great Quintet

0.  Intro Music - Fine and Mellow (1957), Billie Holiday  (10:30-19:00)

Trumpets:  Roy Eldridge, Doc Cheatam
Tenor Saxes:  Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, Ben Webster
Bari Sax:  Gerry Mulligan
Trombone:  Vic Dickenson
Piano:  Mal Waldron   Bass: Milt Hinton,  Drums:  Osie Johnson

Solo order:  Webster, Young, Dickenson, Mulligan, Hawkins, Eldridge. 

Notice the "hotness" and "coolness" of the three tenor players:

Lester Young's very cool, light, soft tone with few notes...
Coleman Hawkin's hot growling with many more notes...
Ben Webster's medium approach.

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1.  Miles in the early 1950s:   40:00 minutes 


Percy Heath (bass) and Kenny Clarke (drums) play on all of the following albums:


From Bag's Groove (1954)


             But Not For Me  (4:30) w/ Sonny Rollins - tenor sax, Horace Silver – piano.

        Airegin  (5:00)  Rollins - tenor sax, composer. Silver - piano



From Walkin' (1954) w/ Lucky Thompson, tenor sax, J. J. Johnson, trombone, and Horace Silver
 
      You Don't Know What Love Is  (4:30)  Ballad.

       Walkin'  (13:30 - play 9:00 mins)   Hard bop!

From Blue Haze (1953-1954)  Art Blakey instead of Kenny Clarke: 


       Four  (4:00) 

       I'll Remember April w/ David Sinderkraut, alto (play 4:30 of 8:00)   Fast Bebop


2. Miles' Collaborators during this period:


Modern Jazz Quartet: Milt Jackson - vibes, John Lewis - piano, Percy Heath - bass, Connie Kay - drums (replaced Kenny Clarke in 1955). Winter Tale  (5:00)

Thelonius Monk - Don't Blame Me  (5:30)  Solo

Horace Silver - Song for My Father  (7:00) (w/ Bill Hardman, Bennie Maupin, Billy Cobham)

Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers (w/ Lee Morgan, Bennie Golson, Bobby Timmons) - A Night in Tunisia (7:00)

Sonny Rollins - My One and Only Love (7:30)
                        - G Man (12:00)

J.J. Johnson (trbn), Sonny Stitt (alto), Howard McGhee (tpt), Walter Bishop (pi), Tommy Potter (ba), Kenny Clarke (dr.) - Buzzy (C. Parker) (12:00) 
 

3.  The First Great Quintet, 1955-1958    30 Minutes

John Coltrane on tenor saxophone, Red Garland on piano, Paul Chambers on bass, and Philly Joe Jones on drums.

The 33 1/3 lp era begins.  Miles fulfills his Prestige recording contract:

Relaxin' with the Miles Davis Quintet (1956)

     Oleo (6:00)   Fast Hard Bop

       You're My Everything (4:50)   Ballad


Steamin' with the Miles Davis Quintet  (1956)


Workin' with the Miles Davis Quintet    (1956)


Cookin' with the Miles Davis Quintet   (1956)


Miles' first record on Columbia Records:


'Round About Midnight  (1956)

       'Round Midnight  (6:00)    A ballad - Monk's most famous composition.  Miles reconstructs the melody.

       Bye Bye Blackbird  (8:00)