Workin' with the Miles Davis Quintet

Workin' with the Miles Davis Quintet
Studio album by
ReleasedJanuary 1960 (1960-01)
RecordedMay 11 and October 26, 1956
StudioVan Gelder Studio, Hackensack
GenreJazz
Length41:59
LabelPrestige
ProducerBob Weinstock
Miles Davis chronology
Jazz Track
(1959)
Workin' with the Miles Davis Quintet
(1960)
Sketches of Spain
(1960)
Professional ratings
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SourceRating
All About Jazzfavorable
AllMusic
DownBeat
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music
Tom HullA−
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings
The Rolling Stone Album Guide
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide

Workin' with the Miles Davis Quintet is an album by the Miles Davis Quintet, released in January 1960 by Prestige Records. It was recorded in two sessions on May 11 and October 26, 1956, that produced four albums: this one, Relaxin' with the Miles Davis Quintet, Steamin' with the Miles Davis Quintet and Cookin' with the Miles Davis Quintet.

Track 2 is a composition written for Davis by Eddie Vinson (see Blue Haze for more details). "Trane's Blues" (also known as "Vierd Blues", a tongue-in-cheek reference to Blue Note founder Francis Wolff's heavily accented verdict on it), also credited to Davis, is in fact a John Coltrane composition (originally titled "John Paul Jones", and from an earlier session led by bassist Paul Chambers; before the closing statement of theme, Coltrane and Davis play a bit of Charlie Parker's "The Hymn").