Quiet Nights

by Miles Davis

Product Description:

Personnel includes: Miles Davis (trumpet); Gil Evans (arranger, conductor); Steve Lacy (soprano saxophone); Paul Horn (tenor saxophone, flute, alto flute); George Coleman (tenor saxophone); Ernie Royal, Bernie Glow (trumpet); J.J. Johnson, Frank Rehak (trombone); Bill Hinshaw, Art Maeba, Ray Alonge, Julius Watkins (French horn); Bill Barber (tuba); Jerome Richardson, Ray Beckenstein (flute, reeds); Garvin Bushnell (bassoon, contrabassoon); Marjorie Call (harp); Victor Feldman, Herbie Hancock (piano); Paul Chambers, Ron Carter (bass); Jimmy Cobb, Frank Butler, Tony Williams (drums); Willie Bobo (bongos); Elvin Jones (percussion).

Recorded at 30th Street Studio, New York, New York on July 27, August 13 and November 6, 1962; CBS Studios, Hollywood, California on April 17, 1963; Columbia Studios, Hollywood, California on October 9 & 10, 1963. Includes liner notes by Bob Belden.

QUIET NIGHTS, the fourth Columbia collaboration between Miles Davis and arranger Gil Evans, has the reputation of being an inconsequential patchwork of unfinished charts and snippets. Truncated though it might be (the original LP clocked in under 30 minutes), the resulting album is a brilliant (and satisfying) Brazilian-flavored blend of pop and jazz, including slow, darkly melodic versions of Jobim's "Corcovado" and Michel Legrand's "Once Upon A Summertime." This remastered CD reissue also includes an unfinished 13-minute suite called "The Time Of The Barracudas," originally written for the theater, and a successfully spliced together experiment in the "third-stream."