Walkin'

Miles Davis All-Star Sextet · 1954 · Reference version, April 29, 1954 (Prestige)

Context

Miles Davis recorded this blues on April 29, 1954, at Rudy Van Gelder's studio in Hackensack, with J. J. Johnson, Lucky Thompson, Horace Silver, Percy Heath and Kenny Clarke. First released on a Prestige 10-inch and then on the album Walkin' (1957), the track is regarded as a key step in the emergence of hard bop and remained in Davis's stage repertoire for a long time.

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

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

Sources

• EN: Walkin'

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