"Analogue Productions has continued to push its own already high bar higher still. Its Quality Record Pressings plant is delivering the best vinyl discs to be found, its jackets and cover reproduction quality have hit new levels, and it continues to have the best in the biz - such as Kevin Gray for this series (25 mono LPs from the Prestige label's exceptional late-50s run) cut lacquers from original analog master tapes. ... (Cookin') does have a warm, quite intimate perspective, with a fine sense of instrumental textures." - Wayne Garcia, The Absolute Sound, December 2015
Cookin’ With the Miles Davis Quintet is the first classic album of four total that emerged from two marathon and fruitful sessions recorded in 1956 (the other three discs released in Cookin’s wake were Workin’, Relaxin’ and Steamin’). All the albums were recorded live in the studio, as Davis sought to capture, with Rudy Van Gelder’s expert engineering, the sense of a club show á la the Café Bohemia in New York, with his new quintet, featuring tenor saxophonist John Coltrane. In Miles’s own words, he says he called this album Cookin’ because “that’s what we did—came in and cooked.” What’s particularly significant about this Davis album is his first recording of what became a classic tune for him: “My Funny Valentine.” Hot playing is also reserved for the uptempo number “Tune Up,” which revs with the zoom of both the leader and ’Trane.
Tracklist:
A1 My Funny Valentine
A2 Blues By Five
B1 Airegin
B2 Tune Up
B3 When Lights Are Low
Bass – Paul Chambers
Drums – Philly Joe Jones
Piano – Red Garland
Tenor Saxophone – John Coltrane
Trumpet – Miles Davis
Recording information:
Title: Cookin' With The Miles Davis Quintet
Artist: Miles Davis Quintet
Genre: Jazz
Media: 1x 180g LP Vinyl Mono 33rpm, Limited, . Recorded on October 26, 1956. "KEVIN GRAY" and "QRP" stamped in dead wax.
Label: Analogue Productions
Cat#: APRJ7094
Released: 2022 in US
Original release: 1957 by Prestige 7094
EAN: 0753088709432
Discogs rel.#: 26662151
