Blue Period (album)

Blue Period
Studio album by Miles Davis
Released	1953
Recorded	January 17 and October 5, 1951 Apex Studio, New York City
Genre	Jazz
Length	18:53
Label	Prestige
Producer	Bob Weinstock
Miles Davis chronology
Young Man with a Horn (1952) Blue Period (1953) The Compositions Of Al Cohn (1953)

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Blue Period (PRLP 140) is a 1953 10" LP album by Miles Davis, his second released by Prestige Records, recorded over the course of two 1951 recording sessions at New York's Apex Studio.^[2][3][4]

Background

"Bluing" and "Out of the Blue", two Davis compositions, were recorded on October 5, 1951, at the same session as the material for his first album The New Sounds (PRLP 124).^[5] "Blue Room", composed by Rodgers and Hart, was recorded earlier that year, at the same January 17 recording session as the three tracks used on the various artists LP Modern Jazz Trumpets (PRLP 113) This earlier session was Davis' first for Prestige.^[6]

Although Blue Period has never been reissued on compact disc, the tracks "Bluing" and "Out of the Blue" are featured on the currently available Dig (PRLP 7012), and two versions of "Blue Room" (including an alternate take) are on the CD of Miles Davis and Horns (PRLP 7025).

Track listing

Personnel

• Miles Davis – trumpet
• Jackie McLean – alto saxophone
• Sonny Rollins – tenor saxophone
• Walter Bishop, Jr. – piano
• Tommy Potter – double bass
• Art Blakey – drums

On "Blue Room"

• Miles Davis – trumpet
• Sonny Rollins – tenor saxophone
• John Lewis – piano
• Percy Heath – double bass
• Roy Haynes – drums

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