Relaxin' with The Miles Davis Quintet

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Relaxin' with The Miles Davis Quintet
Relaxin' with The Miles Davis Quintet cover
Studio album by Miles Davis
Released 1957
Recorded May 11 & October 26, 1956
Genre Jazz
Length 33:15
Label Prestige Records
Producer Bob Weinstock
Professional reviews
Miles Davis chronology
Cookin'
(1957)
Relaxin'
(1957)
Steamin'
(1961)

Relaxin' with The Miles Davis Quintet is an album recorded in 1956 by Miles Davis. Two sessions on 11 May 1956 and 26 October in the same year resulted in four albums - this one, Steamin' with the Miles Davis Quintet, Workin' with the Miles Davis Quintet and Cookin' with the Miles Davis Quintet. The album was remastered by Rudy Van Gelder in 2005 for Prestige Records.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "If I Were A Bell" (Frank Loesser)
  2. "You're My Everything" (Mort DixonJoe YoungHarry Warren)
  3. "I Could Write a Book" (Richard Rodgers – Lorenz Hart)
  4. "Oleo" (Sonny Rollins)
  5. "It Could Happen to You" (Johnny BurkeJimmy van Heusen)
  6. "Woody 'n' You" (Dizzy Gillespie)

The first four tracks are from the October session, the other two from May.

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