Miles '54: The Prestige Recordings
2024 compilation album by Miles Davis
Miles '54: The Prestige Recordings is a compilation album of recordings made in 1954 by the jazz musician Miles Davis for Prestige Records. It was released by Craft Recordings in 2024 as either two compact discs or four long-playing vinyl records. Its titles had been originally released on the previous ten-inch records for Prestige Miles Davis Quartet, Miles Davis All Star Sextet, Miles Davis Quintet, Miles Davis with Sonny Rollins, and the two volumes of Miles Davis All Stars. The original recordings were produced by Bob Weinstock.
Background
After spending much of 1953 either at his father's home or in Detroit to end his drug problems, Davis returned to New York City in February 1954. After one final date for Blue Note Records as a leader, Davis resumed fulfilling his contract for Prestige Records which dated back to 1951. He recorded for no other label for the rest of the year, engaging in studio sessions with various pick-up groups.
Although Davis had been recording steadily in the 1950s, by the time of these sessions very little released had the same impact as the Birth of the Cool records from five years earlier. In the month he arrived in New York, a seminal event in the emerging style of hard bop took place with the recording of the Art Blakey Quintet at Birdland. A protean version of The Jazz Messengers, this quintet included Horace Silver and Clifford Brown.
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