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Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Blue_Haze > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Blue_Haze.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Haze > Source revision: 1311311019 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{For|Blue Haze, the British pop reggae studio group|Johnny Arthey}} {{Use mdy dates|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Blue Haze | type = compilation | artist = [Miles Davis](/source/Miles_Davis) | cover = Blue_haze.JPG | border = yes | alt = | released = Early October 1956[https://books.google.com/books?id=ewoEAAAAMBAJ&dq=Blue+Haze+miles&pg=PA30 Reviews and Ratings], ''[Billboard](/source/Billboard_(magazine))'' October 13, 1956, p. 30. | recorded = May 19, 1953, March 15 and April 3, 1954 | venue = | studio = {{hlist|[WOR](/source/WOR_(AM)) ([New York City](/source/New_York_City))|[Van Gelder](/source/Van_Gelder_Studio) ([Hackensack](/source/Hackensack%2C_New_Jersey))}} | genre = [Jazz](/source/Jazz), [bebop](/source/bebop), [hard bop](/source/hard_bop) | length = 36:33 | label = [Prestige](/source/Prestige_Records) PRLP 7054 | producer = [Bob Weinstock](/source/Bob_Weinstock), [Ira Gitler](/source/Ira_Gitler) | prev_title = [Quintet/Sextet](/source/Quintet%2FSextet) | prev_year = 1956 | next_title = [Collectors' Items](/source/Collectors'_Items) | next_year = 1956 }} {{Music ratings | rev1 = [AllMusic](/source/AllMusic) | rev1Score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{cite web |url= http://www.allmusic.com/album/r106100 |title=Blue Haze – Miles Davis | AllMusic |first=Scott |last=Yanow |author-link=Scott Yanow|work=allmusic.com |year=2011 |access-date=2 August 2011}} | rev2 = ''[The Encyclopedia of Popular Music](/source/The_Encyclopedia_of_Popular_Music)'' | rev2Score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{cite book|last=Larkin|first=Colin|author-link=Colin Larkin|title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music|year=2007|publisher=[Oxford University Press](/source/Oxford_University_Press)|edition=4th|isbn=978-0195313734|title-link=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music}} |rev4 = ''[The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide](/source/The_Rolling_Stone_Jazz_Record_Guide)'' | rev4Score = {{rating|4|5}}{{Cite book |editor-last=Swenson |editor-first=J. | year = 1985 | title = The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide | publisher = Random House/Rolling Stone | location = USA | isbn = 0-394-72643-X | pages = 57 }} |rev3 = ''[The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings](/source/The_Penguin_Guide_to_Jazz_Recordings)'' |rev3score = {{Rating|3|4}}{{cite book |last1=Cook |first1=Richard |authorlink1=Richard Cook (journalist) |last2=Morton |first2=Brian |authorlink2=Brian Morton (Scottish writer) |title=[The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings](/source/The_Penguin_Guide_to_Jazz) |year=2008 |edition=9th |publisher=[Penguin](/source/Penguin_Books) |isbn=978-0-141-03401-0 |page=341}} }} '''''Blue Haze''''' is a compilation album of tracks recorded in 1953 and 1954 by [Miles Davis](/source/Miles_Davis) for [Prestige Records](/source/Prestige_Records).{{Cite web|url=http://www.jazzdisco.org/prestige-records/discography-1953-1954/|title = Prestige Records Discography: 1953}} ==Overview== The album is a reissue in 12" format of the 10" LP ''[Miles Davis Quartet](/source/Miles_Davis_Quartet)'' (PRLP 161), with "[I'll Remember April](/source/I'll_Remember_April_(song))" added. Tracks 4, 6, 7, and 8 come from Prestige PREP 1326, The Miles Davis Quartet, recorded May 19, 1953. It features a quartet with [John Lewis](/source/John_Lewis_(pianist)) on piano —replaced on "Smooch" by its co-composer [Charles Mingus](/source/Charles_Mingus)— [Percy Heath](/source/Percy_Heath), the bassist throughout the album, and [Max Roach](/source/Max_Roach) on drums. Tracks 2, 3, and 5, from March 15, 1954, with [Horace Silver](/source/Horace_Silver) on piano and [Art Blakey](/source/Art_Blakey) on drums, were first released on PREP 1360, titled Miles Davis Quartet. The first track on the album, "I'll Remember April", is from the April 3, 1954, session and was originally included on the [10" LP](/source/LP_record) ''[Miles Davis Quintet](/source/Miles_Davis_Quintet_(album))'' (PRLP 185). The compositions "[Four](/source/Four_(composition))" and "[Tune Up](/source/Tune_Up)" were always credited to Davis, although both were claimed by [Eddie Vinson](/source/Eddie_Vinson) to be his compositions. Vinson was a known blues singer at that time and had no use for them and gave Davis permission to record them. No one expressed opposition to the false crediting until decades later.Jack Chamber: ''Milestones: The Music in Times of Miles Davis''. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Da Capo Press, 1998 (unabr. paperback edn): Pt. 1, p. 184. The album's last track, "Miles Ahead" is not the same composition as featured on the 1957 Columbia Records album ''[Miles Ahead](/source/Miles_Ahead_(album))'', a big band recording arranged by [Gil Evans](/source/Gil_Evans). The "Miles Ahead" played on ''Blue Haze'' is a [contrafact](/source/contrafact), and features a new melody played over the chord changes to John Lewis' tune "Milestones", recorded by Davis in 1947 for Savoy Records. ==Track listing== Prestige – LP 7054{{cite news | title= Miles Davis – Blue Haze| url =https://www.discogs.com/fr/Miles-Davis-Blue-Haze/release/1966694| publisher = [Discogs](/source/Discogs) | access-date = October 22, 2016}} {{Track listing | headline = Side one |title1 = [I'll Remember April](/source/I'll_Remember_April_(song)) |writer1 = [Don Raye](/source/Don_Raye), [Gene de Paul](/source/Gene_de_Paul), Patricia Johnston |length1 = 7:55 |title2 = [Four](/source/Four_(composition)) |writer2 = [Eddie Vinson](/source/Eddie_Vinson), [Miles Davis](/source/Miles_Davis) |length2 = 4:03 |title3 = [Old Devil Moon](/source/Old_Devil_Moon) |writer3 = [Burton Lane](/source/Burton_Lane), [E.Y. Harburg](/source/E.Y._Harburg) |length3 = 3:24 |title4 = Smooch |writer4 = Miles Davis, [Charles Mingus](/source/Charles_Mingus) |length4 = 3:06 }} {{Track listing | headline = Side two | total_length = 36:33 |title1 = Blue Haze |writer1 = Miles Davis |length1 = 6:12 |title2 = When Lights are Low |writer2 = [Benny Carter](/source/Benny_Carter), [Spencer Williams](/source/Spencer_Williams) |length2 = 3:29 |title3 = [Tune Up](/source/Tune_Up) |writer3 = [Eddie Vinson](/source/Eddie_Vinson), [Miles Davis](/source/Miles_Davis) |length3 = 3:56 |title4 = Miles Ahead |writer4 = Miles Davis |length4 = 4:28 }} ==Personnel== '''Track 1 (April 3, 1954)''' *[Miles Davis](/source/Miles_Davis) – [trumpet](/source/trumpet) *[David Schildkraut](/source/David_Schildkraut) – [alto saxophone](/source/alto_saxophone) *[Horace Silver](/source/Horace_Silver) – piano *[Percy Heath](/source/Percy_Heath) – [bass](/source/Bass_guitar) *[Kenny Clarke](/source/Kenny_Clarke) – [drums](/source/Drum_kit) '''Tracks 2, 3 and 5 (March 15, 1954)''' *[Miles Davis](/source/Miles_Davis) – trumpet *[Horace Silver](/source/Horace_Silver) – piano *[Percy Heath](/source/Percy_Heath) – bass *[Art Blakey](/source/Art_Blakey) – drums '''Tracks 4, 6, 7 and 8 (May 19, 1953)''' *[Miles Davis](/source/Miles_Davis) – trumpet *[John Lewis](/source/John_Lewis_(pianist)) – piano (6, 7, 8) *[Charles Mingus](/source/Charles_Mingus) – piano (4) *[Percy Heath](/source/Percy_Heath) – bass *[Max Roach](/source/Max_Roach) – drums ==References== {{Reflist|30em}} {{Miles Davis}}{{Horace Silver}} {{Authority control}} Category:1956 compilation albums Category:Albums produced by Bob Weinstock Category:Albums produced by Ira Gitler Category:Albums recorded at Van Gelder Studio Category:1950s instrumental albums Category:Miles Davis albums Category:Prestige Records compilation albums Category:Albums recorded in a home studio --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Blue Haze](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Haze) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Haze?action=history)). 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