Prestige
Blue Period
| Recorded | 1953 |
|---|---|
| Label | Prestige |
| Catalog | PRLP 140 |
| Released | 1953 |
| Personnel | 10 credited players |
| Discogs | master 1348714 |
The record
Three blue-titled tunes on a ten-inch Prestige, with Miles Davis fronting a horn line of Sonny Rollins on tenor and Jackie McLean on alto. The credits carry two bassists, two drummers and two pianists -- Percy Heath and Tommy Potter, Art Blakey and Roy Haynes, John Lewis and Walter Bishop, Jr. -- so more than one date is gathered here. Ira Gitler wrote the notes.
Tracks
- Bluing
- Blue Room
- Out Of The Blue
Session personnel
- Jackie McLean — Alto Saxophone
- Percy Heath — Bass
- Tommy Potter — Bass
- Art Blakey — Drums
- Roy Haynes — Drums
- Ira Gitler — Liner Notes
- John Lewis (2) — Piano
- Walter Bishop, Jr. — Piano
- Sonny Rollins — Tenor Saxophone
- Miles Davis — Trumpet
Contemporary reception
No period review located yet. The vintage-press pipeline searches DownBeat, Cash Box, and Billboard for this session.
Pressings
Thin ground. We hold three copies of this 10-inch Prestige, all carrying PRLP 140, and every one is described as a repress or a reissue -- a 1953 US mono repress plus two undated reissues, one US mono and one Japanese. No original-era pressing is on file for this title, and the catalog number never changes across the three, so buy on label detail and condition rather than on the number.
| 1953 | Prestige · PRLP 140 — Vinyl LP 10" Album earliest on file |
|---|---|
| 1953 | Prestige · PRLP 140 — Vinyl, 10", Album, Repress, Mono |
| — | Prestige · PRLP 140 — Vinyl, LP, 10", Album, Reissue |
| — | Prestige · PRLP 140 — Vinyl, LP, 10", Album, Reissue, Mono |
Follow the players
Jackie McLean also plays on
Percy Heath also plays on
Tommy Potter also plays on