Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants (PRLP 7150) is an album by Miles Davis, released on Prestige Records in 1959. Most of the material comes from a session on December 24, 1954, featuring Thelonious Monk and Milt Jackson, and had been previously released in the discontinued ten inch LP format. "Swing Spring" was originally released on the 10"LP "Miles Davis All Stars, Volume 1" (PRLP 196), and "Bemsha Swing" and "The Man I Love" (take 2) had been previously released on "Volume 2" (PRLP 200). "'Round Midnight" is newly released, and comes
Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall At Carnegie Hall is a live album by The Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane. It was recorded on 29 November 1957 at "Thanksgiving Jazz", a benefit concert produced by Kenneth Lee Karpe for the Morningside Community Center in Harlem. Other acts performing included: Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie, Ray Charles, Sonny Rollins, and Chet Baker with Zoot Sims. The recording, by Voice of America, documents two sets by the Monk Quartet with Coltrane that night – an early set (tracks 1-5) and a late set (tracks 6-9), which the recording does