Relaxin' with The Miles Davis Quintet

Infobox Album |
Name = Relaxin' with The Miles Davis Quintet
Type = Album
Artist = Miles Davis


Released = 1957
Recorded = May 11 and October 26, 1956
Genre = Jazz
Length = 33:15
Label = Prestige Records
Producer = Bob Weinstock
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:azfoxqygld0e link]
Last album = "Cookin'"
(1957)
This album = "Relaxin"'
(1957)
Next album = "Steamin'"
(1961)

"Relaxin' with The Miles Davis Quintet" is an album recorded in 1956 by Miles Davis. Two sessions on 11 May 1956 and 26 October in the same year resulted in four albums—this one, "Steamin' with the Miles Davis Quintet", "Workin' with the Miles Davis Quintet" and "Cookin' with the Miles Davis Quintet". The album was remastered by Rudy Van Gelder in 2005 for Prestige Records.

Track listing

#"If I Were A Bell" (Frank Loesser) – 8:15
#"You're My Everything" (Harry Warren) – 5:18
#"I Could Write a Book" (Richard Rodgers) – 5:09
#"Oleo" (Sonny Rollins) – 6:18
#"It Could Happen to You" (Jimmy van Heusen) – 6:37
#"Woody 'n' You" (Dizzy Gillespie) – 5:02

The first four tracks are from the October session, the other two from May.

Performers

*Miles Davis - Trumpet
*John Coltrane - Tenor saxophone
*Philly Joe Jones - drums
*Red Garland - Piano
*Paul Chambers - Bass