Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants
1959 compilation album by Miles Davis
Release · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Album
- Artist
- Miles Davis
- First released
- 1959-06
hard bopjazz
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 532
- Total plays
- 5,111
Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants is an album recorded by Miles Davis, for Prestige Records. Most of the album comes from a session on 24 December 1954, but "'Round Midnight" is from the sessions by Davis's new quintet in 1956 which resulted in Steamin' with the Miles Davis Quintet and three other albums to fulfil Davis's contract with Prestige. The 1954 session is notable as the only time Thelonious Monk made a studio recording with Davis - the two men did not get on well <a href="https://