Kathleen Loves Music

This record is perfect. Really. And it’s the most perfect Miles record of his first perfect band.

Usually jazz records are just too hard in too many ways. This one, everyone I know who loves the record can sing every solo as if it were the melody. It might be the only track like that I know.

Oh, the perfect band? Miles Davis, trumpet; Cannonball Adderley, alto saxophone; Paul Chambers, bass; John Coltrane, tenor saxophone; Red Garland,piano; Philly Joe Jones, drums. You can get the album as a single, or as part of the box set with all Miles’ recordings with Coltrane. And, not to put too fine a point on the perfect thing, but the recording itself is a fantastic example of early (1958) stereo sound, done at the legendary Columbia Records 30th Street (former church) Studio.