Miles at Newport - Miles Davis plays on This Day in.Jazz on July 17th 1955

Miles Davis plays the 1955 Newport Jazz Festival on This Day in.Jazz July 17th 1955.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UxxXnfgmmU&t=752s

The Newport Jazz Festival is an annual American multi-day jazz music festival held every summer in Newport, Rhode Island. Elaine Lorillard established the festival in 1954, and she and husband Louis Lorillard financed it for many years. They hired George Wein to organize the first festival and bring jazz to Rhode Island.

Wein was in a club in New York when Miles approached him and asked "Are you going to have a festival up in Newport?" "You can't have a festival without me". Wein agreed, called Miles' agent and he joined the festival. This provided Miles with an opportunity to reach a new audience and to basically "audition" in front of the Columbia music executives at the festival. Fair to say, he rose to the occasion and made Jazz history.

Check out Miles Davis at Newport: 1955-1975: The Bootleg Series Vol. 4

All compositions written by Miles Davis, except where noted.

1. Spoken Introductions by Duke Ellington and Gerry Mulligan – 1:27
2. "Hackensack" (Thelonious Monk) – 8:02
3. "'Round Midnight" (Monk) – 6:11
4. "Now's the Time" (Charlie Parker) – 8:48
Recorded July 17, 1955 at the Newport Jazz Festival, Festival Field, Newport, RI
5. Introduction by Willis Connover – 2:16
6. "Ah-Leu-Cha" (Parker) – 5:52
7. "Straight, No Chaser" (Monk) – 8:47
8. "Fran-Dance" – 7:13
9. "Two Bass Hit" (Dizzy Gillespie, John Lewis) – 4:10
10. "Bye Bye Blackbird" (Ray Henderson, Mort Dixon) – 9:10
11. "The Theme" – 2:49

1955
All-Star Jam Session:

Miles Davis – trumpet
Zoot Sims – tenor saxophone
Gerry Mulligan – baritone saxophone
Thelonious Monk – piano
Percy Heath – bass
Connie Kay – drums

Other albums mentioned:
Cookin', Relaxin', Workin', Steamin' and Walkin'