Blue Haze is a compilation album of tracks recorded in 1953 and 1954 by Miles Davis for Prestige Records .
6-587: The album is a reissue in 12" format of the 10" LP Miles Davis Quartet (PRLP 161), with " I'll Remember April " added. Tracks 4, 6, 7, and 8 come from Prestige PREP 1326, The Miles Davis Quartet, recorded May 19, 1953. It features a quartet with John Lewis on piano —replaced on "Smooch" by its co-composer Charles Mingus — Percy Heath , the bassist throughout the album, and Max Roach on drums. Tracks 2, 3, and 5, from March 15, 1954, with Horace Silver on piano and Art Blakey on drums, were first released on PREP 1360, titled Miles Davis Quartet. The first track on
12-414: Is a 10 inch LP album by Miles Davis , released in 1954 by Prestige Records . The first four tracks that comprise Side 1 were recorded at New York's WOR Studios, on May 19, 1953. The last three, heard on Side 2, were recorded nearly a year later, at New York's Beltone Studios , on March 15, 1954. The May 19, 1953 session features bassist and composer Charles Mingus on one track, playing piano. This
18-482: The album, "I'll Remember April", is from the April 3, 1954, session and was originally included on the 10" LP Miles Davis Quintet (PRLP 185). The compositions " Four " and " Tune Up " were always credited to Davis, although both were claimed by Eddie Vinson to be his compositions. Vinson was a known blues singer at that time and had no use for them and gave Davis permission to record them. No one expressed opposition to
24-608: The false crediting until decades later. The album's last track, "Miles Ahead" is not the same composition as featured on the 1957 Columbia Records album Miles Ahead , a big band recording arranged by Gil Evans . The "Miles Ahead" played on Blue Haze is a contrafact , and features a new melody played over the chord changes to John Lewis' tune "Milestones", recorded by Davis in 1947 for Savoy Records. Prestige – LP 7054 Track #1 (April 3, 1954) Track #2, 3 and 5 (March 15, 1954) Track #4, 6, 7 and 8 (May 19, 1953) Miles Davis Quartet Miles Davis Quartet (PRLP 161)
30-415: The two sessions quickly after returning to New York, as he needed money fast, and both Blue Note's Alfred Lion and Prestige's Bob Weinstock had given him a fair chance earlier when his reputation was in decline. This was the beginning of a new three-year contract with Prestige, which Davis would still be committed to when he signed a better deal with Columbia at the end of 1955. After the 10" LP format
36-454: Was to be Davis' final studio session until he finally kicked his heroin habit for good nearly a year later. The March 15, 1954 session Davis was the second of two Davis recorded immediately after successfully quitting his heroin habit. He used exactly the same quartet he had also recorded with seven days earlier for his third Blue Note session, released as Miles Davis Volume 3 (BLP 5040). Davis says in his autobiography that he arranged
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