Editor's info:
The complete classic album Porgy and Bess by Miles Davis with the Gil Evans orchestra - plus, as a bonus, four extra tracks featuring Miles playing Gershwin tunes with jazz giants such as Sonny Rollins, Thelonious Monk and Milt Jackson. Porgy and Bess was Miles Davis and Gil Evans' second conceptual album (they had worked together back in the late 1940s on the celebrated "Birth of the Cool" nonet sessions and would record their first conceptual LP Miles Ahead in 1957).


muzycy:
Tracks 1-13 originally issued as Columbia CS 8085.
Miles Davis: trumpet, flugelhorn
Orchestra under the direction of Gil Evans:
Johnny Coles
Bernie Glow
Ernie Royal
Louis Mucci
Joe Bennett
Frank Rehak
Jimmy Cleveland
Dick Hixson
Willie Ruff
Julius Watkins
Gunther Schuller
Bul Barber
Phil Bodner
Jerome Richardson
Romeo Penque
Danny Bank
Julian "Cannonball" Adderley
Paul Chambers
Philly Joe Jones
Jimmy Cobb
Gil Evans
Recorded in New York, between July & August, 1958.


The bonus tracks has been taken from the Miles Davis' album "Bags' Groove" (Prestige PRLP 7109).
Tracks 14-15:
Miles Davis: trumpet
Sonny Rollins: tenor saxophone
Horace Silver: piano
Percy Heath: bass
and Kenny Clarke: drums
Recorded by Rudy Van Gelder in Hackensack, New Jersey, on June 29, 1954.

Tracks 16-17:
Miles Davis: trumpet
Milt Jackson: vibes
Thelonious Monk: piano
Percy Heath: bass
and Kenny Clarke: drums
Recorded by Rudy Van Gelder in Hackensack, New Jersey, on December 24, 1954.

Editor's info:
The complete classic album Porgy and Bess by Miles Davis with the Gil Evans orchestra - plus, as a bonus, four extra tracks featuring Miles playing Gershwin tunes with jazz giants such as Sonny Rollins, Thelonious Monk and Milt Jackson. Porgy and Bess was Miles Davis and Gil Evans' second conceptual album (they had worked together back in the late 1940s on the celebrated "Birth of the Cool" nonet sessions and would record their first conceptual LP Miles Ahead in 1957).


muzycy:
Tracks 1-13 originally issued as Columbia CS 8085.
Miles Davis: trumpet, flugelhorn
Orchestra under the direction of Gil Evans:
Johnny Coles
Bernie Glow
Ernie Royal
Louis Mucci
Joe Bennett
Frank Rehak
Jimmy Cleveland
Dick Hixson
Willie Ruff
Julius Watkins
Gunther Schuller
Bul Barber
Phil Bodner
Jerome Richardson
Romeo Penque
Danny Bank
Julian "Cannonball" Adderley
Paul Chambers
Philly Joe Jones
Jimmy Cobb
Gil Evans
Recorded in New York, between July & August, 1958.


The bonus tracks has been taken from the Miles Davis' album "Bags' Groove" (Prestige PRLP 7109).
Tracks 14-15:
Miles Davis: trumpet
Sonny Rollins: tenor saxophone
Horace Silver: piano
Percy Heath: bass
and Kenny Clarke: drums
Recorded by Rudy Van Gelder in Hackensack, New Jersey, on June 29, 1954.

Tracks 16-17:
Miles Davis: trumpet
Milt Jackson: vibes
Thelonious Monk: piano
Percy Heath: bass
and Kenny Clarke: drums
Recorded by Rudy Van Gelder in Hackensack, New Jersey, on December 24, 1954.