Conception (album)

Conception
Compilation album by Miles Davis, Stan Getz, Lee Konitz
Released 1951
Recorded 1949-1951
New York City
Genre Jazz
Length 39:36
Label Prestige
PRLP 7013
Producer Bob Weinstock
Miles Davis chronology
Birth of the Cool
(1949)
Conception
(1951)
Blue Period
(1951)
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Review scores
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Allmusic [1]

Conception is a compilation album issued in 1951 as PRLP 7013, featuring Miles Davis on a number of tracks. The album features other notable musicians such as Lee Konitz, Sonny Rollins, Stan Getz, Gerry Mulligan and Zoot Sims. The cover was designed by Bob Parent.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Odjenar" (George Russell) - 2:52
  2. "Hibeck" (Lee Konitz) - 3:07
  3. "Yesterdays" (Jerome Kern) - 2:27
  4. "Ezz-Thetic" (Russell) - 2:54
  5. "Indian Summer" (Victor Herbert)" - 2:35
  6. "Duet for Saxophone and Guitar" (Konitz) - 2:41
  7. "Conception" (George Shearing) - 4:03
  8. "My Old Flame" (Sam Coslow, Arthur Johnston) - 6:36
  9. "Intoit" (Stan Getz) - 3:22
  10. "Prezervation" (Getz) - 2:44
  11. "I May Be Wrong" (Gerry Mulligan) - 3:28
  12. "So What" (Mulligan) - 2:44

Note: The final track, "So What", is not the composition of the same name composed by Miles Davis from the 1959 album Kind of Blue.

Recording sessions and personnel

June 21, 1949 (NYC)

"Prezervation"

1950

January 6 (NYC)

"Intoit"

March 15 (NYC)

"I May Be Wrong"

"So What"

1951

March 8 (NYC)

"Odjenar", "Hibeck", "Yesterdays", "Ezz-Thetic"

March 13 (NYC)

"Indian Summer", "Duet for Saxophone and Guitar"

October 5 (Apex Studios, NYC)

"Conception", "My Old Flame"

References

  1. ^ Mason, Stewart (2011 [last update]). "Conception - Miles Davis | AllMusic". allmusic.com. http://www.allmusic.com/album/r137433. Retrieved 2 August 2011.