Miles Davis — May 26, 1958 session (pre-KOB, with the KOB line-up)

[Teasing the Korean]

Well, it looks like our friends at Acoustic Sounds read my post immediately above.  They are releasing these four tracks as a standalone (and expensive) LP.  

[ghost of miles]

On 10/28/2024 at 9:26 PM, mjzee said:

'58 Miles

That was my 1990s introduction, via the CD version. I remember being thrilled to find a Kind Of Blue "prequel" session, as it were.

[Teasing the Korean]

55 minutes ago, ghost of miles said:

I can hear the digital distortion just looking at the cover art! 😹

[Daniel A]

Didn't that '58 Sessions' CD have a take of Stella by Starlight that never has appeared anywhere else? It appears to have been a mistake; the originally released version was a composite take, but on the CD a single - partially different - take was used.

[Steve Gray]

16 hours ago, Daniel A said:

Didn't that '58 Sessions' CD have a take of Stella by Starlight that never has appeared anywhere else? It appears to have been a mistake; the originally released version was a composite take, but on the CD a single - partially different - take was used.

romualdo mentions that in his discographical info earlier in the thread.

Love For Sale was originally on a Columbia LP compilation called Black Giants.

Just want to say that the handover from Miles to Coltrane on Stella By Starlight is one of the most magical moments in recorded jazz for me 🙂

[medjuck]

5 hours ago, Steve Gray said:

Just want to say that the handover from Miles to Coltrane on Stella By Starlight is one of the most magical moments in recorded jazz for me 🙂

But does that happen on take 7?  And is the handover done via an edit?   Now I wish I still had a copy of  Miles '58 given that take 7 isn't even on the Miles/Coltrane box set. 

[medjuck]

1 hour ago, medjuck said:

But does that happen on take 7?  And is the handover done via an edit?   Now I wish I still had a copy of  Miles '58 given that take 7 isn't even on the Miles/Coltrane box set. 

Well to answer my own questions: Peter Losin tells me:  

For "Stella," the originally-issued version consists of take 3 until the end of the tpt introduction, then the remainder from take 7. The edit point is 1:39, at which point an extra beat is introduced.