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This 1958 date finds Davis with alto and tenor saxophonists Cannonball Adderley and John Coltrane, drummer Philly Joe Jones, bassist Paul Chambers and pianist Red Garland. It looks to the past with the bebop and blues of Jackie McLean's "Dr Jackle", John Lewis and Dizzy Gillespie's "Two Bass Hit" and Thelonious Monk's "Straight, No Chaser". The band points solidly to the future with the modal masterpiece "Milestones", which set the stage for the historic Kind of Blue. Davis's own tune, "Sid's Ahead", has a melodic line like Benny Golson's "Killer Joe"; "Billy Boy&q
This 1958 date finds Davis with alto and tenor saxophonists Cannonball Adderley and John Coltrane, drummer Philly Joe Jones, bassist Paul Chambers and pianist Red Garland. It looks to the past with the bebop and blues of Jackie McLean's "Dr Jackle", John Lewis and Dizzy Gillespie's "Two Bass Hit" and Thelonious Monk's "Straight, No Chaser". The band points solidly to the future with the modal masterpiece "Milestones", which set the stage for the historic Kind of Blue. Davis's own tune, "Sid's Ahead", has a melodic line like Benny Golson's "Killer Joe"; "Billy Boy" features Garland, Chambers and Jones and is a stylistic shout to Ahmad Jamal. This superbly remastered edition also contains three alternate takes: "Two Bass Hit" snaps, crackles and pops with Jones's rope-a-dope rhythms and the title track rings with a more lyrical statement by Davis. On "Straight, No Chaser" Coltrane delivers a more harmonically daring solo, Adderley takes on Trane's supersonic scalar style and Chambers caps the cut with a grooving solo. This is a classic recording from a classic group. --Eugene Holley Jr
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Manufacturer: Sony Jazz
Release date: 16 April 2001
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 5099708520328
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