Jazz Wax Records

Miles Davis was in the process of forming his first classic quintet when he recorded this date. The trumpeter is featured on a quartet outing with celebrated bassist Oscar Pettiford, pianist Red Garland, and drummer Philly Joe Jones (both of whom would also form part of the aforementioned quintet –with John Coltrane on tenor sax and Paul Chambers on bass). The program consisted of four standards, a blues (“Green Haze”), and the original tune “I didn’t”, which was Miles’ humorous answer to Thelonious Monk’s “Well, You Needn’t”. The two quartet […]