The Miles Davis Quintet – Relaxin' With The Miles Davis Quintet (VG+/VG+)

Relaxin' With The Miles Davis Quintet is an LP by The Miles Davis Quintet from 1985 released on the Original Jazz Classics, Prestige label.

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Relaxin' With The Miles Davis Quintet is one of the defining statements of Miles Davis’s first great quintet, balancing hard bop drive with remarkable ease and poise. Recorded in 1956 and issued in 1958, it features Davis with John Coltrane, Red Garland, Paul Chambers and Philly Joe Jones at a point when the group was sharpening its interplay into something supple and highly individual. Across standards such as ‘If I Were a Bell’ and ‘It Could Happen to You’, the band turns familiar material into relaxed but intensely focused ensemble jazz. It stands as a key document in Davis’s ascent and in the hard bop era more broadly.

Genre: Jazz

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