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
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