Collectors' Items

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Collectors' items is a jazz album by Miles Davis. It contains material from two different studio sessions from 1953 and 1956, including the last recording together with Charlie Parker; it was also the only studio meeting of Parker and Sonny Rollins. The LP was released in 1956 on Prestige Records.

Background of the recordings

Collectors' Items combines two sessions of the trumpeter from two different periods; on the first session played Davis on January 30, 1953, the title Compulsion, The Serpent's Tooth ( two takes ) and at first the Thelonious Monk classic 'Round About Midnight one. They found between Davis first Blue Note session (May 1952 Miles Davis Volume 1 ), and his recordings with Al Cohn / Zoot Sims ( Miles Davis and Horns ) a month later instead. Besides Sonny Rollins and Charlie Parker ( the record company for contractual reasons described on the LP cover as " Charlie Chan " ) played Miles Davis with Walter Bishop Jr. ( piano ), Percy Heath ( bass) and Philly Joe Jones (drums ); the latter should then 1955 belong to the rhythm section of the first Miles Davis Quintet ( with John Coltrane ). Miles Davis commented on the studio encounter with Parker in his autobiography:

Miles Davis also reported that treated him Parker " as his son or as a member of his band ." As Parker then fell asleep in the session and spoke to him producer Ira Gitler to the poor quality of the previous recordings, Miles Davis was unnerved leave the recording studio. As the noted Parker, it was possible to bring the session to a satisfactory conclusion.

The second session included on the LP was formed on March 16, 1956, shortly after Davis had already made the first recordings with his first quintet in November 1955 ( Miles: The New Miles Davis Quintet ). In the March 1956 session, however, Miles played again ( and last time ) with Sonny Rollins; the rhythm group was Tommy Flanagan ( piano ), Paul Chambers ( bass) and Art Taylor (drums). In the session in the Studion by Rudy Van Gelder in Hackensack (New Jersey) created three titles In Your Own Sweet Way, a composition by Dave Brubeck and Davis original compositions Vierd Blues and No Line. According to Ira Gitler in the original liner notes of the session was in 1953 for the second time that Charlie Parker played on a tenor saxophone, also the only time that he recorded with Sonny Rollins. For Parker turned Collectors' Items a posthumous publication;; the LP was released a year after Parker's death in March 1955.

Title list

  • Miles Davis: Collectors' Items ( Prestige PRLP 7044 ) A1 Serpent's Tooth [Take 1] ( Davis) - 7:08
  • A2 Serpent's Tooth [Take 2] ( Davis) - 6:24
  • A3 ' Round Midnight ( Cootie Williams / Monk ) - 7:12
  • A4 Compulsion ( Davis) - 5:53
  • No Line B1 ( Davis) - 5:48
  • B2 Vierd Blues ( Davis) - 7:00
  • B3 In Your Own Sweet Way ( Brubeck ) - 4:40

Reception

Peter Wießmüller praised the two compositional Posts by Miles Davis on the first session; they " connect sent a cool shape design with the improvisational passion of bebop. " While Parker's contributions to the unusual for him Tenor Saxophone " extremely unhappy " turned out to Miles Davis and Sonny Rollins presented with vital vibrancy in the hectic Compulsion and the experimentally applied number The Serpent's Tooth. Wißemüller also highlights the strong support of the first committed in a Davis combo Philly Joe Jones.

Commenting on the second session in 1956, praises the author's concentrated Harmon mute damper game of the trumpeter in the up-tempo in the Blue number No Line, the atmospheric improvisations in Brubeck's In Your Own Sweet Way and Rollins ' successful game in the medium - pace in Vierd Blues, the " be fully developed talent for melodic design " show. " In a similar intention as he builds paraphrasische Miles runs on rhythmic variations on where the break shift is a central element of style. "

The Rough Guide: Jazz (2004) noted that Sonny Rollins was in better shape than Charlie Parker.

Scott Yanow awarded the album at Allmusic four ( out of five) stars and said that this will set its title with interesting sessions justice; the highlights of the album are No Line, Vierd Blues, In Your Own Sweet Way and the ( contained in the expanded CD version ) Title Nature Boy and There's No You ( from the Mingus / Davis session in 1955, appeared on Bluemoods ) Yanow came to a conclusion: It's classic if Often overlooked music from a variety of immortal jazzmen.

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