Blue Haze
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| Compilation album by Miles Davis | ||||
| Released | Early October 1956 | |||
| Recorded | May 19, 1953, March 15 and April 3, 1954 | |||
| Studio | WOR Studios, New York City, Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, NJ | |||
| Genre | Jazz, bebop, hard bop | |||
| Length | 36:33 | |||
| Label | Prestige PRLP 7054 | |||
| Producer | , Ira Gitler | |||
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Blue Haze is a compilation of tracks recorded in 1953 and 1954 by Miles Davis for Prestige Records.
The album is a reissue in 12" format of the 10" LP Miles Davis Quartet (PRLP 161), with "I'll Remember April" added. Tracks 4,6, 7, and 8 come from Prestige PREP 1326, The Miles Davis Quartet, recorded 19 May 1953. It features a quartet with John Lewis on piano —replaced on "Smooch" by its co-composer Charles Mingus— Percy Heath, the bassist throughout the album, and Max Roach on drums. Tracks 2, 3, and 5, from March 15, 1954, with Horace Silver on piano and Art Blakey on drums, were first released on PREP 1360, titled Miles Davis Quartet. The first track on the album is from the 3 April 1954 session which resulted in half of the album Walkin' (and was originally included on the 10" LP Miles Davis Quintet (PRLP 185)).
The compositions "Four" and "Tune Up" were always credited to Davis, although both are claimed by Eddie Vinson to be his compositions. Vinson was a known blues singer at that time and had no use for them and gave Davis permission to record them. No one was opposed to the false crediting until "recently", as Jack Chambers wrote in Milestones 1983.
Prestige – LP 7054
Track #1 (April 3, 1954)
Track #2, 3 and 5 (March 15, 1954)
Track #4, 6, 7 and 8 (May 19, 1953)
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