Miles Davis All Star Sextet

Miles Davis All Star Sextet (PRLP 182) is a 10 inch LP album by Miles Davis, released in 1954 by Prestige Records. The two side-long tracks were recorded at Rudy Van Gelder's Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey, April 29, 1954.

Davis claimed in his autobiography that the release of this material turned his "whole life and career around", along with Capitol Records' release around the same time of the Birth of the Cool tracks in LP form, which made the critics notice him once again. Davis goes on to describe the goal of this recording: to return to "the fire and improvisation of bebop", but combined with a more forward looking funky kind of blues. Davis says the concepts were worked out in Horace Silver's room at the Arlington Hotel. J.J. Johnson and Lucky Thompson provided a big horn sound, on top of Silver's funky piano and Clarke’s "bad rhythms" behind on the drums. When the recording was complete, all involved, including Bob Weinstock and Van Gelder, knew they had achieved something good.

After the 10" LP format was discontinued, both tracks were included on Side 1 of the 12" album Walkin' (PRLP 7076).

Track listing

Side one
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Blue 'n' Boogie"	Dizzy Gillespie, Frank Paparelli	8:16

Side two
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Walkin'"	Richard Carpenter	13:26
Total length:			21:38

Personnel

References

Miles Davis All-Star Sextet, the Jazz Discography Project, accessed May 22, 2014
Miles Davis All-Star Sextet, Miles Ahead: A Miles Davis Website, accessed May 22, 2014
Miles Davis All-Star Sextet, Discogs.com, accessed May 22, 2014
April 29, 1954 Session Details, Miles Ahead: A Miles Davis Website, accessed May 22, 2014
"Miles: the Autobiography", Miles Davis with Quincy Troupe, 1989, pg.177

Miles Davis

Discography

Studio albums

Prestige era	The New Sounds Young Man with a Horn Blue Period The Compositions of Al Cohn Miles Davis, Volume 2 Miles Davis, Volume 3 Miles Davis Quartet Miles Davis All Star Sextet Miles Davis Quintet Miles Davis with Sonny Rollins Miles Davis All Stars, Volume 1 Miles Davis All Stars, Volume 2 The Musings of Miles Blue Moods Dig Miles: The New Miles Davis Quintet Quintet/Sextet Collectors' Items Cookin' with the Miles Davis Quintet Bags' Groove Relaxin' with the Miles Davis Quintet Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants Workin' with the Miles Davis Quintet Steamin' with the Miles Davis Quintet
Columbia era	'Round About Midnight Miles Ahead Milestones Porgy and Bess Kind of Blue Jazz Track Sketches of Spain Someday My Prince Will Come Seven Steps to Heaven Quiet Nights E.S.P. Miles Smiles Sorcerer Nefertiti Miles in the Sky Filles de Kilimanjaro In a Silent Way Bitches Brew Jack Johnson Live-Evil On the Corner The Man with the Horn Star People Decoy You're Under Arrest Aura
Warner Bros. era	Tutu Amandla Doo-Bop Rubberband
Soundtracks	Ascenseur pour l'échafaud Jack Johnson Music from Siesta The Hot Spot Dingo

Live
recordings

Compilations

Box sets

Remix albums

Compositions

Miles Dewey Davis Jr. (father)
Miles Davis Quintet
Miles: The Autobiography
Miles! The Definitive Miles Davis at Montreux DVD Collection
That's What Happened: Live in Germany 1987
Live in Munich (1988)
Miles from India
A Different Kind of Blue (2004 documentary)
Miles Ahead (2015 movie)

Category

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Years indicated are for the recording(s), not first release.
Blue Note albums	New Faces New Sounds (Introducing the Horace Silver Trio) (1952)/Horace Silver Trio and Art Blakey-Sabu (1952–53) Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers (1954–55) 6 Pieces of Silver (1956–58) The Stylings of Silver (1957) Further Explorations (1958) Live at Newport '58 (1958) Finger Poppin' with the Horace Silver Quintet (1959) Blowin' the Blues Away (1959) Horace-Scope (1960) Doin' the Thing (1961) The Tokyo Blues (1962) Silver's Serenade (1963) Song for My Father (1963–64) The Cape Verdean Blues (1965) The Jody Grind (1966) Serenade to a Soul Sister (1968) You Gotta Take a Little Love (1969) That Healin' Feelin', The United States of Mind, Phase 1 (1970) Total Response, The United States of Mind, Phase 2 (1970–71) All, The United States of Mind, Phase 3 (1972) The United States of Mind (compilation of the 3 'Phase' albums, 1970–72) In Pursuit of the 27th Man (1972) Silver 'n Brass (1975) Silver 'n Wood (1975–76) Silver 'n Voices (1976) Silver 'n Percussion (1977) Silver 'n Strings Play the Music of the Spheres (1978–79)
Albums released on other labels	Silver's Blue (1956) Live 1964 (1964) Guides to Growing Up (1981) Spiritualizing the Senses (1983) There's No Need to Struggle (1983) The Continuity of Spirit (1985) Music to Ease Your Disease (1988) Rockin' with Rachmaninoff (1991) It's Got to Be Funky (1993) Pencil Packin' Papa (1994) The Hardbop Grandpop (1996) A Prescription for the Blues (1997) Jazz Has a Sense of Humor (1998)
Art Blakey/The Jazz Messengers	A Night at Birdland Vol. 1 (1954) A Night at Birdland Vol. 2 (1954) A Night at Birdland Vol. 3 (1954) At the Cafe Bohemia, Vol. 1 (1955) At the Cafe Bohemia, Vol. 2 (1955) The Jazz Messengers (1956) The Cool Voice of Rita Reys (1956) Originally (1956)
With others	Introducing Nat Adderley (1955) Love and Peace: A Tribute to Horace Silver (Dee Dee Bridgewater, 1994) Byrd's Eye View (Donald Byrd, 1955) Whims of Chambers (Paul Chambers, 1956) Bohemia After Dark (Kenny Clarke, 1955) Al Cohn's Tones (Al Cohn, 1950) Miles Davis, Volume 3 (1954) Miles Davis Quartet/Blue Haze/Miles Davis Quintet/ Miles Davis All-Star Sextet/Walkin' (1953/54) Miles Davis with Sonny Rollins/Bags' Groove (1954) Quartet/Quintet/Sextet (Lou Donaldson, 1952) Afro-Cuban (Kenny Dorham, 1955) The Art Farmer Septet (1953–54) When Farmer Met Gryce (Art Farmer/Gigi Gryce, 1955) The Complete Roost Recordings (Stan Getz, 1950–51) Nica's Tempo (Gigi Gryce, 1955) Disorder at the Border (Coleman Hawkins, 1952) Milt Jackson Quartet (1955) Plenty, Plenty Soul (Milt Jackson, 1957) The Eminent Jay Jay Johnson Volume 2 (J.J. Johnson, 1955) Blowing in from Chicago (Clifford Jordan & John Gilmore, 1957) Hank Mobley Quartet (1955) Hank Mobley Sextet (1956) Hank Mobley and His All Stars (1957) Hank Mobley Quintet (1957) J. R. Monterose (1956) Lee Morgan Indeed! (1956) Lee Morgan Sextet (1956) Sonny Rollins, Vol. 2 (1957) Clark Terry (1955)
Selected singles	"Opus de Funk" (1953) "The Preacher"/"Doodlin'" (1955/54) "Señor Blues" (1956) "Sister Sadie" (1959) "Nica's Dream" (1960) "Song for My Father" (1964)
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