Dig (Miles Davis album)

Dig
Studio album by Miles Davis
Released	1951 (12 inch: 1956)
Recorded	October 5, 1951 at Apex Studio, New York
Genre	Jazz
Length	34:45 (Original 10" Format) 44:00 (12" Reissue)
Label	Prestige
Producer	Bob Weinstock
Miles Davis chronology
Collectors' Items (1956) Dig (1956) Miles Davis Volume 1 (1956)

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Dig is an album by Miles Davis on Prestige Records, catalogue number 7012. Initially released in the ten-inch format in 1951, Dig was later reissued as a twelve-inch LP with additional tracks. Subsequent compact disc reissues duplicate the twelve-inch track listing.

After inaugurating the school of cool jazz with the Birth of the Cool recording sessions in 1949 and 1950, Davis almost immediately turned away from that sound in the early 1950s, to which this recording attests. Dig was also the recording debut of saxophonist Jackie McLean.

Track listing

All tracks written by Miles Davis except "Paper Moon" by Harold Arlen, Yip Harburg, and Billy Rose, "My Old Flame" by Sam Coslow and Arthur Johnston, and "Conception" by George Shearing.

10" LP

Side one

1. "Dig" (7:33)
2. "It's Only A Paper Moon" (5:23)
3. "Denial" (5:39)

Side two

1. "Bluing" (9:55)
2. "Out of the Blue" (6:15)

12" LP/CD reissue

Side one

1. "Dig" (7:33)
2. "It's Only A Paper Moon" (5:23)
3. "Denial" (5:39)

Side two

1. "Bluing" (9:55)
2. "Out of the Blue" (6:15)
3. "My Old Flame" (4:01)
4. "Conception" (6:34)

Personnel

• Miles Davis – trumpet
• Jackie McLean – alto saxophone (on Davis originals only)
• Sonny Rollins – tenor saxophone
• Walter Bishop, Jr. – piano
• Tommy Potter – double bass or
• Charles Mingus – double bass (on "Conception" only)
• Art Blakey – drums

References

1. ^ Yanow, Scott (2011 [last update]). "Dig [Bonus Tracks] - Sonny Rollins | AllMusic". allmusic.com. http://www.allmusic.com/album/r106089. Retrieved 2 August 2011.