Miles Davis at Carnegie Hall

This article is about the album by Miles Davis. For albums titled "At Carnegie Hall", see At Carnegie Hall (disambiguation).

Miles Davis at Carnegie Hall: The Legendary Performances of May 19, 1961 is a live album by American jazz musician Miles Davis originally released by Columbia in 1962.

Miles Davis at Carnegie Hall
Live album by Miles Davis
Released	July 16, 1962
Recorded	May 19, 1961
Venue	Carnegie Hall New York City
Genre	Jazz hard bop
Length	44:54
Label	Columbia
Producer	Teo Macero
Miles Davis chronology
In Person Saturday Night at the Blackhawk, San Francisco, Volume 2 (1961) Miles Davis at Carnegie Hall (1962) Seven Steps to Heaven (1963)
Miles Davis live chronology
In Person Friday and Saturday Nights at the Blackhawk, Complete (1961) Miles Davis at Carnegie Hall (1961) Miles Davis in Europe (1963)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Down Beat (Original LP release)	[1]
AllMusic	[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	[3]

Background

This live performance features Davis with his regular quintet and accompanied by Gil Evans and his 21-piece orchestra. The orchestra and quintet together perform selections from Miles Ahead and Sketches of Spain, while the quintet by itself performs both Davis originals and standards by Sonny Rollins and Ahmad Jamal, among others.

Although Davis and Evans recorded multiple albums together, there were only two live performances ever with both quintet and orchestra. On top of the rarity of the occasion, the Carnegie Hall recording features a few one-offs: the only recordings of the Gil Evans-orchestrated introduction to "So What" and a version of "Spring Is Here," again arranged by Evans.

Track listing

Original release

The original LP was released in two versions: as CL 1812 in monaural and CS 8612 as "electronically re-channeled for stereo."^[4][5]

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"So What"		12:04
2.	"Spring Is Here"	Lorenz Hart Richard Rodgers	3:58
3.	"No Blues"		10:55
4.	"Oleo"	Sonny Rollins	7:23
5.	"Someday My Prince Will Come"	Frank Churchill Larry Morey	2:43
6.	"The Meaning of the Blues / Lament / New Rhumba"	Bobby Troup/Leah Worth J.J. Johnson Ahmad Jamal	8:31

All tracks are written by Miles Davis, except as noted.

1998 Columbia/Legacy release

A two-disc CD version of the complete concert in chronological order was released by Sony/Columbia in 1998. This edition features the original mono mix.

Disc 1

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"So What"	Davis	12:01
2.	"Spring Is Here"	Rogers, Hart	3:58
3.	"Teo"	Davis	9:10
4.	"Walkin'"	Richard Carpenter	9:32
5.	"The Meaning Of The Blues / Lament"	Troup, Worth / Johnson	4:34
6.	"New Rhumba"	Jamal	4:07

Disc 2

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Someday My Prince Will Come"	Churchill, Morey	2:55
2.	"Oleo"	Rollins	7:19
3.	"No Blues"	Davis	10:38
4.	"I Thought About You"	Jimmy Van Heusen, Johnny Mercer	5:00
5.	"En Aranjuez Con Tu Amor (adagio from Concierto de Aranjuez)"	Joaquín Rodrigo	17:05

Personnel

The Miles Davis Quintet

• Miles Davis – trumpet
• Hank Mobley – tenor saxophone
• Wynton Kelly – piano
• Paul Chambers – bass
• Jimmy Cobb – drums

The Gil Evans Orchestra

• Gil Evans – arranger and conductor
• Miles Davis – trumpet soloist
• Ernie Royal, Bernie Glow, Johnny Coles, Louis Mucci – trumpets
• Jimmy Knepper, Dick Hixon, Frank Rehak – trombones
• Julius Watkins, Paul Ingrahan, Bob Swisshelm – French horns
• Bill Barber – tuba
• Romeo Penque, Jerome Richardson, Eddie Caine, Bob Tricarico, Danny Bank – reeds and woodwinds
• Janet Putnam – harp
• Wynton Kelly – piano (on "Spring is Here" only)
• Paul Chambers – bass
• Jimmy Cobb – drums
• Bobby Rosengarden – percussion

Production

• Teo Macero – producer

Chart history

Chart	Peak position
US Billboard Top Jazz Albums[6]	59

References

1. Down Beat: October 11, 1962 vol. 29, no. 26
2. https://www.allmusic.com/album/r106139
3. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 345. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
4. Stephen Thomas Erlewine. "At Carnegie Hall – Allmusic". Allmusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 2011-06-12.
5. "MILES DAVIS At Carnegie Hall LP 6-eye mono CL 1812". Ebay. Retrieved 2011-06-12.
6. "At Carnegie Hall – Allmusic – Charts & Awards". AllMusic. Retrieved 2011-06-12.

External links

• At Carnegie Hall at AllMusic