Someday My Prince Will Come (Miles Davis album)

Occupation

Someday My Prince Will Come is a jazz album by Miles Davis, recorded in three recording sessions at 7, 20 and 21 March 1961 released on Columbia Records in 1961.

The album

After a world tour in 1960, John Coltrane had left the Miles Davis Quintet in order to realize their own plans. He went, in part, because Davis was not ready in his view, to meet the challenges of young musicians of the early 1960s such as Ornette Coleman. Miles Davis took temporary Sonny Stitt in the band, but got out again in early 1961.

In March 1961, the trumpeter brought his band to his first recordings for the album Kind of Blue (1959 ) to Columbia Studio. They took a blues entitled Pfrancing on ( a pun on the name of Davis ' wife) and another piece called drag- Dog. With the result Davis was not particularly happy. He called Coltrane and asked him if he had time the next day to play along; Coltrane but made ​​no commitments. The following day, Davis, Some Day My Prince Will Come decided to include - the title comes from the Walt Disney film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, 1937). His saxophonist Hank Mobley was struggling with the chords, because suddenly Coltrane appeared in the studio. and "blows two solos that provide everything else in the shade "

Jimmy Cobb reported: " The red light was on and we were in the middle of the number, emerged as Trane in the studio. While we continued to play, he put together his horn and Miles wrote him the chords on a scrap of paper. Then he sat on the horn and played this amazing solo. I still do not know how he managed to do so quickly navigate through a number he did not know. Hank was astounded how safe Trane dealt with the chords. " Coltrane plays in with Teo, the only modal number of this session with a fascinating eastern flair. Teo is the Indian -influenced modal music very similar, with the Coltrane often employed in the first years of his own quintet.

Except for the title track and Teo Davis played the album in a quintet. It was the last session Studion Davis ' with Hank Mobley; thus ending the cooperation Miles with Coltrane that had existed intermittently since 1955, and drummer Philly Joe Jones with the. Jones appeared briefly on the session and played at the " Blues No.. 2 "with which, however, did not appear on the original album from 1961.

The title

  • The CD edition also includes the title Blues No.. 2, was involved in the Philly Joe Jones, and an " alternate take " Someday My Prince Will Come by.
  • The image on the cover of the album shows Davis ' wife, Frances.

Literature / Sources

  • Richard Cook & Brian Morton The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD 6th edition. ISBN 0-14-051521-6
  • Miles Davis: The Autobiography. Munich, Heyne, 2000
  • Erik Nisenson Round About Midnight - A portrait of Miles Davis. Vienna, Hannibal, 1985
  • Peter Wießmüller: Miles Davis - His life, his music, his records. Gauting, Oreos ( Jazz Collection ) 1985

Comments

  • Album ( Jazz )
  • Album 1961
  • Miles Davis album
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