Miles Davis ‎– Birdland Jam Session June 30, 1950

RLR Records releases contain sessions culled from rare and unissued non-professional recordings and so technical quality may not quite be up to today’s recording standards. However, because of their historical value and the importance of the musicians involved, every effort has been made to improve the sound quality using modern technology.

This amazing and rarely heard jam session was only previously issued in worst sound quality on a long out of print Italian album. It features Miles jamming at Birdland surrounded by some of the greatest bebop all stars, like Fats Navarro (who would die a week later), J.J. Johnson, Tadd Dameron and Art Blakey. It contains an amazing quartet version of “Embraceable You” by Miles and the rhythm section, and the trumpeter’s only existing reading of Thelonious Monk’s “Eronel”.

PERSONNEL:

• MILES DAVIS, trumpet
• FATS NAVARRO, trumpet on 2-3 & 5-6 only,
• J. J. JOHNSON, trombone
• BREW MOORE, tenor sax
• TADD DAMERON, piano on 1, 4-5 & 7-9
• WALTER BISHOP, Jr., piano on 2-3 & 6
• CURLY RUSSELL, bass
• ART BLAKEY, drums

Live at Birdland, New York, June 30, 1950.

TRACKS:

• 1. Embraceable You
• 2. Eronel
• 3. 52nd Street Theme
• 4. Wee
• 5. Hot House Into 52nd Street Theme
• 6. Conception
• 7. Band Warming Up
• 8. Max Is Making Wax
• 9. OW!

• TOTAL TIME: 74:58