Miles Davis
Miles Davis, from his beginnings as a nineteen-year-old kid in 1945 New York City, to his final days in the early 1990’s, is to be considers one of the jazz’s best. The 1996 album entitled, Bluing: Miles Davis Plays the Blues, the engineers at Prestige Records bring Miles Davis back to life. Packed with over 73 minutes and of 12 bar blues, Bluing brings nine great tunes of Davis’ together on one disk. Having been originally recorded in the 1950’s, these nine cuts take the listener through a decade of music and a decade of Davis’ life. On the opening track, entitled “Bluing”, we hear nearly ten minutes of Davis on trumpet, Jackie McLean on alto sax, Sonny Rollins on tenor, Walter Bishop, Jr. on piano, Tommy Porter on bass, and Art Blakey playing the drums. Bishop provides the intro of the song on the piano, with Blakey coming in soon after. Nearly a minute in, Davis begins and is soon softly accompanied by the saxes. Through the first five or so mi
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