Miles Davis - Miles '54: The Prestige Recordings (4LP, Box set)
COMPILATION
Released in Celebration of the 70th anniversary of these sessions and the 75th anniversary of Prestige Records
Trumpet – Miles Davis [click here to see more products featuring Miles Davis]
Tenor saxophone - Sonny Rollins [click here to see more products featuring Sonny Rollins]
Bass - Charles Mingus [click here to see more products featuring Charles Mingus]
Piano - Horace Silver [click here to see more products featuring Horace Silver]
Piano - Thelonious Monk [click here to see more products featuring Thelonious Monk]
Drums - Art Blakey [click here to see more products featuring Art Blakey]
4 LPs, Box set, standard sleeves
Original analog Master tape : YES
Heavy Press : 180g
Record color : black
Speed : 33RPM
Size : 12”
Stereo
Studio
Record Press : Record Technology Incorporated
Label : Craft Recordings
Original Label : Prestige
Mastered by Paul Blakemore
Lacquers cut by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio.
Liner Notes by Ashley Kahn, Dan Morgenstern
Originally released in November 2024
Tracks:
Side A:
1. Four
2. Old Devil
3. Blue
4. Solar
Side B:
1. You Don't Know What Love Is
2. Love Me or Leave Me
3. I'll Remember April
Side C:
1. Blue 'N' Boogie
2. Walkin'
Side D:
1. Airegin
2. Oleo
3. But Not for Me (Take 1)
4. But Not for Me (Take 2)
Side E:
1. Doxy
2. Bags' Groove (Take 1)
Side F:
1. Bags' Groove (Take 2)
2. Bemsha Swing
Side G:
1. Swing Spring
Side H:
1. The Man I Love (Take 1)
2. The Man I Love (Take 2)
Reviews :
Craft Recordings celebrates a pivotal year for Miles Davis with Miles ’54: The Prestige Recordings—a new, 20-track compilation, collecting genre-defining recordings from the music icon’s 1954 output, including music from classic albums Miles Davis with Sonny Rollins, Miles Davis Quintet, Miles Davis All Star Sextet, and Miles Davis Quartet (all originally issued via Prestige Records). Featuring an all-star cast of musicians, including Sonny Rollins, Thelonious Monk, Milt Jackson, Kenny Clarke, Art Blakey, and Horace Silver, Miles ’54 blends originals by the influential jazz icon, with popular ballads and compositions by his legendary sidemen.
Arriving November 22, 2024, Miles ’54 will be available in an array of formats, including 180-gram 4-LP, 2-CD, and hi-res digital. All audio has been newly remastered by GRAMMY® Award-winning engineer, Paul Blakemore, with lacquers cut by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio. Physical editions offer a brand-new essay by GRAMMY®-winning music historian Ashley Kahn (author of Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece, among others) as well as in-depth session notes by GRAMMY-winning writer, Dan Morgenstern. The complete collection is available for pre-order here, while the track “Oleo” can be streamed today.
1954 was a watershed year for Miles Davis. Ten years into his celebrated career, the trumpeter, composer, and bandleader was on the precipice of international fame and more focused than ever. Throughout the year, Davis entered Rudy Van Gelder’s studio for five landmark sessions—each of which would find him honing his sound, maturing as a leader, and collaborating with the era’s brightest rising stars. The resulting recordings would catapult Davis’ career to the next level and set the tone for the mid-late ’50s post-bop scene.