Bye Bye Blackbird

Miles Davis Quintet · 1956 · Definitive version (first quintet, 'Round About Midnight)

Context

Miles Davis's first great quintet, with John Coltrane, Red Garland, Paul Chambers, and Philly Joe Jones, recorded this standard on June 5, 1956, at Columbia's 30th Street studio. It appears on 'Round About Midnight, Davis's first album for Columbia, released on March 4, 1957.

In the genealogy of jazz

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

By the same artist

• Générique (Ascenseur pour l'échafaud) (1958)
• Stella by Starlight (1958)
• Milestones (1958)
• Bags' Groove (1954)
• Walkin' (1954)
• So What (1959)

Sources

• EN: 'Round About Midnight

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