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
Coltrane Jazz Coltrane Jazz Coltrane Jazz is the sixth studio album by jazz musician John Coltrane, released in 1961 on Atlantic Records, catalogue SD 1354. The song "Village Blues" is noted as a landmark recording, as it marks the first session date of the early John Coltrane Quartet on record. Featured alongside Coltrane are pianist McCoy Tyner, drummer Elvin Jones, and bassist Steve Davis (who would within 18 months have been replaced by first Reggie Workman and then Jimmy Garrison who would stay with Coltrane until his death.) In 1959, Miles Davis' business manager Harold Lovett negotiated a contract for Coltrane with