Miles Davis. 'Porgy and Bess'

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May 31, 2017 Sold Date

May 26, 2017 Start Date

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Miles Davis. 'Porgy and Bess'   Orchestra under the direction of Gil Evans. A vinyl recording made in 1958.     Track notes and personnel on the back of album sleeve. Considered one of Miles best recordings, a collectors item.

Born and raised in Illinois, Davis began performing in 1940s New York with saxophonist Charlie Parker before recording the Birth of the Cool sessions for Capitol Records, which were instrumental to the development of cool jazz. In the early 1950s, he recorded some of the earliest hard bop music while on Prestige Records but did so haphazardly due to a heroin addiction. After a widely acclaimed comeback performance at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1955, he signed a long-term contract with Columbia Records and recorded the 1957 album Round About Midnight. It was his first work with saxophonist John Coltrane and bassist Paul Chambers, key members of the sextet he led into the early 1960s. During this period, he alternated between orchestral jazz collaborations with arranger Gil Evans, such as the Spanish music-influenced Sketches of Spain (1960), and band recordings, such as Milestones (1958) and Kind of Blue (1959). The latter featured harmonies developed by pianist Bill Evans and was an innovative work in the emerging modal jazz style, eventually becoming arguably the most popular jazz album ever.

Side One:   The Buzzard Song / Bess, You Is My Woman Now / Gone / Gone,Gone,Gone / Summertime / Bess, Oh Where's My Bess.

Side Two:    Prayer(Oh Doctor Jesus) / Fishermen, Strawberry And Devil Crab / My Man's Gone Now / It Ain't Necessarily So / Here Come De Honey Man / I Loves You, Porgy / There's A Boat That's Leaving Soon For New York.

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