The New Sounds

The New Sounds
Studio album by
Released1951 (1951)
RecordedOctober 5, 1951
StudioApex Studio
New York City
GenreJazz
Length23:35
LabelPrestige
PRLP 124
ProducerBob Weinstock
Miles Davis chronology
Modern Jazz Trumpets
(1951)
The New Sounds
(1951)
Young Man with a Horn
(1953)
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The Encyclopedia of Popular Music

The New Sounds is the debut solo studio album by the American jazz musician Miles Davis. Released in late 1951 as a 10-inch LP, it is his first album as a bandleader and his first full album for Prestige Records. Davis had previously contributed three tracks to the Prestige compilation LP Modern Jazz Trumpets and appeared as a sideman on the 10-inch LP Lee Konitz: The New Sounds.