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Miles Ahead session details

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May 10, 1957 (10 items; TT = 38:04)
Columbia 30th Street Studio, New York NY
Commercial for Columbia
Show chatter

Miles Davis (flh); Ernie Royal (tpt); Bernie Glow (tpt); Louis Mucci (tpt); Taft Jordan (tpt); Johnny Carisi (tpt); Frank Rehak (tb); Jimmy Cleveland (tb); Joe Bennett (tb); Tom Mitchell (tb); Willie Ruff (frh); Tony Miranda (frh); Bill Barber (tuba); Romeo Penque (fl, cl, bcl, oboe); Sid Cooper (fl, cl); Lee Konitz (as); Danny Bank (bcl); Paul Chambers (b); Arthur Taylor (d); Gil Evans (arr, cond)

1 My Ship (take 1) (K. Weill-I. Gershwin) 4:21
2 My Ship (take 6) (K. Weill-I. Gershwin) 4:36
3 My Ship (take 7) (K. Weill-I. Gershwin) 4:38
4 My Ship (master (take 10)) (K. Weill-I. Gershwin) 4:30
5 Miles Ahead (rehearsal) (M. Davis-G. Evans) 1:47
6 Miles Ahead (take 4) (M. Davis-G. Evans) 3:35
7 Miles Ahead (take 11) (M. Davis-G. Evans) 3:32
8 Miles Ahead (take 12) (M. Davis-G. Evans) 3:34
9 Miles Ahead (take 15) (M. Davis-G. Evans) 4:02
10 Miles Ahead (master (takes 15/11)) (M. Davis-G. Evans) 3:29

The issued version includes an overdubbed tpt solo from August 22


1 My Ship (take 1)
12" LP: Columbia CJ 40784, Mosaic MQ11-164
CD: Columbia CK 40784, Columbia Legacy CXK 67397, Columbia Legacy CXK 90923, Sony SRCS 7945/50, Sony SICP 657/62

2 My Ship (take 6)
12" LP: Mosaic MQ11-164
CD: Columbia Legacy CXK 67397, Columbia Legacy CXK 90923, Sony SRCS 7945/50, Sony SICP 657/62

3 My Ship (take 7)
12" LP: Mosaic MQ11-164
CD: Columbia Legacy CXK 67397, Columbia Legacy CXK 90923, Sony SRCS 7945/50, Sony SICP 657/62

4 My Ship (master (take 10))
12" LP: Columbia CL 1041 (= CS 8633), Sony 88765 41386-1, Nippon Columbia YS-304, CBS/Sony SONP 50147, CBS/Sony SOPL 152, CBS/Sony 18AP 2053, CBS/Sony 23AP 2553, CBS/Sony 25AP 752, Mosaic MQ11-164
CD: Columbia CK 53225, Columbia Legacy CXK 67397, Columbia Legacy CXK 90923, Columbia Legacy CK 65038, Columbia Legacy 88883 75664, CBS/Sony 32DP 511, Sony SRCS 5697, Sony SRCS 9106, Sony SRCS 7945/50, Sony SICP 657/62, Sony SRCS 9703, Sony SRGS 4543, Sony SICP 811, Sony SICP 1202, Sony SICP 20052, Sony SICP 30212, Sony SICJ 30039, Sony SICJ 12, Sony SICP 30521/9, Columbia Legacy 86975 24922 [= Columbia (F) 86975 52492] (CD 4)

5 Miles Ahead (rehearsal)
12" LP: Mosaic MQ11-164
CD: Columbia Legacy CXK 67397, Columbia Legacy CXK 90923, Sony SRCS 7945/50, Sony SICP 657/62

6 Miles Ahead (take 4)
12" LP: Columbia CJ 40784, Mosaic MQ11-164
CD: Columbia CK 40784, Columbia CK 65121, Columbia Legacy CXK 67397, Columbia Legacy CXK 90923, Sony SRCS 7945/50, Sony SICP 657/62

7 Miles Ahead (take 11)
12" LP: Mosaic MQ11-164
CD: Columbia Legacy CXK 67397, Columbia Legacy CXK 90923, Sony SRCS 7945/50, Sony SICP 657/62

8 Miles Ahead (take 12)
12" LP: Mosaic MQ11-164
CD: Columbia Legacy CXK 67397, Columbia Legacy CXK 90923, Sony SRCS 7945/50, Sony SICP 657/62

9 Miles Ahead (take 15)
12" LP: Mosaic MQ11-164
CD: Columbia Legacy CXK 67397, Columbia Legacy CXK 90923, Sony SRCS 7945/50, Sony SICP 657/62

10 Miles Ahead (master (takes 15/11))
12" LP: Columbia CL 1041 (= CS 8633), Sony 88765 41386-1, Nippon Columbia YS-304, CBS/Sony SONP 50147, CBS/Sony SOPL 152, CBS/Sony 18AP 2053, CBS/Sony 23AP 2553, CBS/Sony 25AP 752, CBS/Sony 00AP 2076/81, Mosaic MQ11-164
CD: Columbia CK 53225, Columbia Legacy CXK 67397, Columbia Legacy CXK 90923, Columbia Legacy 88883 75664, CBS/Sony 32DP 511, Sony SRCS 5697, Sony SRCS 9106, Sony SRCS 7945/50, Sony SICP 657/62, Sony SRCS 9703, Sony SRGS 4543, Sony SICP 811, Sony SICP 1202, Sony SICP 20052, CBS/Sony 80DP 872/5, Sony SRCS 5691/4, Sony SICP 30521/9, Columbia Legacy 86975 24922 [= Columbia (F) 86975 52492] (CD 4)


This is the second of four studio sessions scheduled for the recording of Miles Ahead.

The issued version of "Miles Ahead" includes overdubbed parts recorded during another session on August 22, 1957. All of these tunes involve some kind of post-production. Phil Schaap's discographical notes in the booklet for Mosaic MQ11-164 document hundreds of edits in the various issued versions. The reels that yielded Miles Ahead are more or less complete, but much of the music -- false starts, incomplete takes, and many complete takes -- remains unissued. Schaap notes that complete reels for the later sessions that produced Porgy and Bess and Sketches of Spain no longer exist.

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