Walkin'

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Miles Davis All Stars: Miles Davis (trumpet); Davey Schildkraut (alto saxophone); Lucky Thompson (tenor saxophone); J.J. Johnson (trombone); Horace Silver (piano); Percy Heath (bass); Kenny Clarke (drums).
Recorded at the Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey on April 3 & 29, 1954. Originally released on Prestige (7076). Includes liner notes by Ira Gitler and Martin Williams.
Digitally remastered using 20-bit technology by Shigeo Miyamoto (JVC
Studios).
WALKIN' is one of Miles Davis' most popular, influential recordings--an anthem for generations of hard bop contenders. Miles had just recorded a memorable Blue Note session with Horace Silver, Percy Heath and Art Blakey on March 6, 1954, and these sessions expand on that hard swinging affair. Bop innovator Kenny "Klook" Clarke was an ideal drummer for Miles, and imparts a shimmering relaxation and grace to these April 1954 sessions.
Miles discovers a new tonal color on WALKIN', employing a cup mute throughout--and to dramatic effect. Later he would adopt the buzzier, more penetrating Harmon mute, played close up on the microphone for a singular melodic effect on ballads--it would become something of a trademark. Here Miles uses the more open cup mute to get an extraordinarily sensual sound on his lovely melody "Solar," followed by the obscure but gifted Davey Schildkraut, whose wafting lines and airy tone suggest a cool Charlie Parker (a la Paul Desmond and Lee Konitz).
On a bracing gallop through Dizzy Gillespie's riff-o-rama "Blue 'N Boogie," Horace Silver feeds the soloists an endless series of two-handed hosannas and amens, as Heath and Clarke surge along on cruise control, offering pointed commentary. And what solos! Davis wind-surfing over Clarke's mentholated cymbal beat, trombonist J.J. Johnson's lustrous hops, skips and jumps; then after the blazing secondary theme...Lucky Thompson, whose long, surging exhortations incite the rhythm section to even bolder syncopations, and a convulsive Silver sermon.
How to top that? With the extended storytelling of "Walkin'." Clocking in at 13:25, it's one of the first jazz recordings to take advantage of the extended playing time of the new LP. "Walkin'" seems to sum up everything that had transpired since Bird and Diz broke in post-war America, encapsulated in the film-noir after-hours ambiance of the jam sesion. Silver engages each soloist in a continual dialogue, inspiring one climactic testimony after another.
エディション : Remaster