{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Miles Davis, Vol. 2 | type = Studio | artist = Miles Davis | cover = Miles Davis Volume 2.jpg | alt = | released = Early October 1953<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=ZgoEAAAAMBAJ&dq=Miles+Davis+5022&pg=PA40 ''Billboard'' Oct 31, 1953]</ref> | recorded = April 20, 1953 | studio = WOR, NYC | genre = {{hlist|Bebop|hard bop}} | length = 21:16 | label = Blue Note<br>BLP 5022 | producer = Alfred Lion | prev_title = The Compositions of Al Cohn | prev_year = 1953 | next_title = Miles Davis, Vol. 3 | next_year = 1954 | misc = }} {{Music ratings | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1Score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.allmusic.com/album/r137516 |title=Miles Davis, Vol. 2 – Miles Davis | AllMusic |first=Scott |last=Yanow |work=allmusic.com |year=2011 |access-date=2 August 2011}}</ref> |rev2 = ''The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings'' |rev2score = {{Rating|3.5|4}}<ref name="Penguin">{{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 |year=2008 |edition=9th |publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-0-141-03401-0 |page=341}}</ref> }} '''''Miles Davis, Vol. 2''''' is the fifth 10-inch LP by trumpeter Miles Davis, recorded on April 20, 1953,<ref>[http://www.plosin.com/MilesAhead/Sessions.aspx?s=530420 April 20, 1953 Session Details], Miles Ahead: A Miles Davis Website, accessed July 14, 2014</ref> and released on Blue Note later that year—his second session and first release for the label.
== Background ==
=== Personal life === The recording was made at a point in Davis' life when he was struggling with heroin addiction; in his autobiography Davis recounts Jimmy Heath, Art Blakey and he were all very high in the studio. Davis also states that the song title "C.T.A." was named after Heath's girlfriend Connie Theresa Ann.<ref>Miles Davis with Quincy Troupe, ''Miles: the Autobiography'', 1989, p. 162.</ref>
=== Release history === Early 1956, Blue Note reissued the contents of Miles Davis's three sessions on two 12" LPs, ''Miles Davis Vols. 1 & 2'', shortly after Davis won the ''DownBeat'' readers poll as best trumpeter; the two volumes of repackaged Miles Davis material were the first releases in Blue Note's new 1500 series of 12" LPs.<ref>Leonard Feather in the original liner notes to ''Miles Davis Volume 1'' (1956)</ref><ref>[http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=761 Down Beat Readers Poll 1955] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120306002016/http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=761|date=2012-03-06}} on ''Down Beat'' homepage. Retrieved on April 6, 2014.</ref>
==Track listing== {{Track listing | headline = Side 1 | title1 = Tempus Fugit | writer1 = Bud Powell | length1 = 3:53 | title2 = Enigma | writer2 = Jay Jay Johnson | length2 = 3:25 | title3 = Ray's Idea | writer3 = {{hlist|Gil Fuller|Ray Brown}} | length3 = 3:46 }} {{Track listing | headline = Side 2 | total_length = 21:31 | title1 = Kelo | writer1 = Johnson | length1 = 3:20 | title2 = I Waited for You | writer2 = {{hlist|Fuller|Dizzy Gillespie}} | length2 = 3:31 | title3 = C.T.A. | writer3 = Jimmy Heath | length3 = 3:36 }}
==Personnel== * Miles Davis – trumpet * J. J. Johnson – trombone * Jimmy Heath – tenor saxophone * Gil Coggins – piano * Percy Heath – bass * Art Blakey – drums
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