Bags' Groove

Miles Davis · 1954 · Definitive version: Christmas 1954 session with Monk and Milt Jackson

Context

A blues by Milt "Bags" Jackson, recorded on December 24, 1954 at Van Gelder's studio in Hackensack by Miles Davis with Jackson, Thelonious Monk, Percy Heath and Kenny Clarke. Both takes appear on the album Bags' Groove (Prestige, 1957), which also includes Airegin, Oleo and Sonny Rollins's Doxy.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Hard bop. Among the origins and influences of Hard bop: Blues, spirituals, work songs, Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's).

By the same artist

• Walkin' (1954)
• Bye Bye Blackbird (1956)
• Générique (Ascenseur pour l'échafaud) (1958)
• Darn That Dream (1950)
• Stella by Starlight (1958)
• Milestones (1958)

Sources

• EN: Bags' Groove

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