Session details: Columbia 30th Street Studio (March 2, 1959)

Miles Ahead session details

March 2, 1959 (13 items; TT = 41:17)

Columbia 30th Street Studio, New York NY

Commercial for Columbia

Show chatter

Miles Davis (tpt); Julian "Cannonball" Adderley (as); John Coltrane (ts); William J. "Bill" Evans (p); Wynton Kelly (p); Paul Chambers (b); Jimmy Cobb (d)

1	Freddie Freeloader (take 1 (inc)) (M. Davis)	0:56
	Irving Townsend: "The machine's on. Here we go. CO 62290, no title, take one..." Davis: "Him, me, him, and you. Hey Wynton, after Cannonball, you play again and then we'll come in and end it..." False start (0:08). Davis: "It was too fast." Townsend: "Miles, where are you gonna work now?" Davis: "Right here." Townsend: "OK, 'cause if you move back we don't get you. You were right when you played before..." Davis: "When I play it I'm gonna raise my horn a little bit... Can I move this down a little bit?" Townsend: "It's against policy to move a microphone..." (Laughter)
2	Freddie Freeloader (take 2 (inc)) (M. Davis)	1:03
	"Here we go. Ready? Number two..." Breakdown at 0:51. Davis and Coltrane rehearse
3	Freddie Freeloader (take 3 (inc)) (M. Davis)	1:37
	"Take three..." Breakdown at 1:21. Davis to Kelly: "Hey look, Wynton, you don't play no chord goin' in to A-flat..." Another false start (0:04)
4	Freddie Freeloader (take 4) (M. Davis)	9:56
	At the end Townsend asks, "Yeah... You wanna hear it, Miles?"
5	Freddie Freeloader (piano solo insert) (M. Davis)	1:32
	"Here we go, this is insert one, take one..." Someone (Chambers?) says, "last four bars..." False start (0:02). Davis: "No, no, wait a minute -- it's the last twelve bars..." At the end Davis asks, "All right?" Townsend: "Yeah." Davis: "Let's hear a little bit of it." Townsend: "Right..."
6	So What (take 1 (fs + inc)) (M. Davis)	2:11
	Townsend: "Here we go." Davis: "Wait a minute!" Townsend: "CO 62291, number two, take one..." Davis: "Wait one minute..." Adderley (?): "One short second..." Unknown: "Gimme a D, Bill..." Unknown: "OK." Evans and Chambers tune up; Chambers sings the bass line. Townsend: "Number two, take one..." False start (0:04). Townsend: "Start again, please..." Incomplete take (0:49), Townsend interrupts: "Hold it. Sorry... Listen, we gotta watch it because it, the, ah, there's noises all the way through this. This is so quiet to begin with, and every click... Watch the snare too, we're pickin' up some of the vibrations on it..." Davis: "Well that goes with it. All that goes with it." Townsend: "All right. Not, not, not all the other noises, though..."
7	So What (take 2 (fs + inc)) (M. Davis)	1:43
	Townsend: "Take two..." False start (0:17), then incomplete take (1:11). Davis interrupts: "Start again..." Adderley: "When the horns..."
8	So What (take 3) (M. Davis)	10:29
	Townsend (phone ringing in the booth): "Here we go, Miles; take three..." Three false starts (0:16, 0:07, 0:15). Davis: "Take it off..." Complete take (9:35) ends with Adderley singing "with a song in my heart..." and Chambers singing the closing bar of the bass line. Davis: "How's that, Irving?" Faded slowly on CK 64935; more quickly on most other versions
9	Studio chatter	0:17
	Townsend: "Just you four guys on this, right Miles?" Davis: "Five..." Chambers tuning. "No, why don't you play?"
10	Blue in Green (take 1 (inc)) (M. Davis-B. Evans)	0:43
	Townsend: "CO 62292, number three, take one..." Incomplete take (0:22). Evans: "We better do that again... Start on the last four bars?" Davis: "Last four bars, but you repeat it." Evans: "Oh, do it twice?" Davis: "Yeah, so it's eight..."
11	Blue in Green (take 2 (inc)) (M. Davis-B. Evans)	0:58
	Townsend: "Take two..." Incomplete take (0:43). Davis: "Use both hands, Jimmy... Just use both hands and play it the best way you can, you know? It'll be all right."
12	Blue in Green (take 3 (inc)) (M. Davis-B. Evans)	3:27
	Townsend: "OK? Number three..." False start (0:23). Davis: "Try it again, Billy. One, two, three, four..." Evans: "We just do that four?" They play (2:46), and at the breakdown Davis says, "That's the idea, Irving." Evans: "He stays the same as me..."
13	Blue in Green (take 4 (fs)) (M. Davis-B. Evans)	0:34
	Townsend: "Take four..." False start (0:08). Townsend: "Sorry guys. It was our fault..." Davis: "No it isn't. No, I don't believe that." Townsend: "What'd you say?" Davis: "I don't believe that." Townsend: "It was a little static up here...."
14	Blue in Green (take 5) (M. Davis-B. Evans)	5:51
	"Go ahead..." At the end Townsend says, "Beautiful... beautiful." Davis: "Wake up, Paul."


1 Freddie Freeloader (take 1 (inc)) CD: Columbia Legacy 88697 33552
3 Freddie Freeloader (take 3 (inc)) 12" LP: Mosaic MQ9-191 CD: Columbia Legacy C6K 65833, Columbia Legacy C6K 90922, Columbia Legacy 88697 33552, Columbia 89152, Sony SRCS 2223/8, Sony SICP 651/6
4 Freddie Freeloader (take 4) 12" LP: Columbia CL 1355 (= CS 8163), Columbia 88883 76103, Music on Vinyl MOV LP019, Mobile Fidelity Sound Laboratory MFSL 2-45010, Nippon Columbia YS-127, Nippon Columbia SL-1224, CBS/Sony SONP 50027, CBS/Sony SOPL 155, CBS/Sony 18AP 2056, CBS/Sony 23AP 2556, CBS/Sony 25AP 755, CBS/Sony 28AP 2833, Classic Records CS 8163, Classic Records CS 8163-45 (45 rpm), Classic Records CS 8163-200, Mosaic MQ9-191 CD: Columbia CK 08163, Columbia CK 40579, Columbia Legacy CK 64935, Columbia Legacy CK 52861, Columbia Legacy CK 64403, Columbia Legacy CK 64935, Columbia Legacy C6K 65833, Columbia Legacy C6K 90922, Columbia Legacy 88697 33552, Columbia Legacy 88883 75664, Mobile Fidelity Sound Laboratory UDSACD 2085, CBS/Sony 35DP 62, CBS/Sony 32DP 513, CBS/Sony CSCS 5141, Sony SRCS 6681, Sony SRCS 9104, Sony SRCS 2223/8, Sony SICP 651/6, Sony SRCS 9701, Sony SRGS 4501, Sony SICP 816, Sony SICP 1206, Sony SICP 10083, Sony SICP 20001, Sony SICP 20258, Sony SICP 30216, Sony SICJ 30048/9, Mega Disc Legendary 1959, Sony SICP 30521/9, Columbia Legacy 86975 24922 [= Columbia (F) 86975 52492] (CD 10)
5 Freddie Freeloader (piano solo insert) CD: Columbia Legacy 88697 33552
6 So What (take 1 (fs + inc)) CD: Columbia Legacy 88697 33552
8 So What (take 3) 12" LP: Columbia CL 1355 (= CS 8163), Columbia 88883 76103, Music on Vinyl MOV LP019, Mobile Fidelity Sound Laboratory MFSL 2-45010, Nippon Columbia YS-127, Nippon Columbia SL-1224, Nippon Columbia PSS-57, CBS/Sony SONP 50027, CBS/Sony SOPL 155, CBS/Sony 18AP 2056, CBS/Sony 23AP 2556, CBS/Sony 25AP 755, CBS/Sony 28AP 2833, CBS/Sony 00AP 2076/81, Classic Records CS 8163, Classic Records CS 8163-45 (45 rpm), Classic Records CS 8163-200, Mosaic MQ9-191 CD: Columbia CK 08163, Columbia CK 40579, Columbia Legacy CK 64935, Columbia Legacy CK 52861, Columbia Legacy CK 64403, Columbia Legacy CK 64935, Columbia Legacy C6K 65833, Columbia Legacy C6K 90922, Columbia Legacy C2K 85475, Columbia Legacy CK 64616, Columbia Legacy 88697 33552, Columbia Legacy 88883 75664, Mobile Fidelity Sound Laboratory UDSACD 2085, CBS/Sony 35DP 62, CBS/Sony 32DP 513, CBS/Sony CSCS 5141, CBS/Sony 80DP 872/5, Sony SRCS 5691/4, Sony SRCS 6681, Sony SRCS 9104, Sony SRCS 2223/8, Sony SICP 651/6, Sony SRCS 9701, Sony SRCS 2493/4, Sony SRGS 4501, Sony SICP 816, Sony SICP 1206, Sony SICP 10083, Sony SICP 20001, Sony SICP 20258, Sony SICP 30216, Sony SICJ 30048/9, Mega Disc Legendary 1959, Sony SICP 30521/9, Columbia Legacy 86975 24922 [= Columbia (F) 86975 52492] (CD 10)
9 Studio chatter CD: Columbia Legacy 88697 33552
10 Blue in Green (take 1 (inc)) CD: Columbia Legacy 88697 33552
11 Blue in Green (take 2 (inc)) CD: Columbia Legacy 88697 33552
14 Blue in Green (take 5) 12" LP: Columbia CL 1355 (= CS 8163), Columbia 88883 76103, Music on Vinyl MOV LP019, Mobile Fidelity Sound Laboratory MFSL 2-45010, Nippon Columbia YS-127, Nippon Columbia SL-1224, CBS/Sony SONP 50027, CBS/Sony SOPL 155, CBS/Sony 18AP 2056, CBS/Sony 23AP 2556, CBS/Sony 25AP 755, CBS/Sony 28AP 2833, Classic Records CS 8163, Classic Records CS 8163-45 (45 rpm), Classic Records CS 8163-200, Mosaic MQ9-191 CD: Columbia CK 08163, Columbia CK 40579, Columbia Legacy CK 64935, Columbia Legacy CK 52861, Columbia Legacy CK 64403, Columbia Legacy CK 64935, Columbia Legacy C6K 65833, Columbia Legacy C6K 90922, Columbia Legacy 88697 33552, Columbia CK 61405, Columbia Legacy 88883 75664, Mobile Fidelity Sound Laboratory UDSACD 2085, CBS/Sony 35DP 62, CBS/Sony 32DP 513, CBS/Sony CSCS 5141, Sony SRCS 6681, Sony SRCS 9104, Sony SRCS 2223/8, Sony SICP 651/6, Sony SRCS 9701, Sony SRGS 4501, Sony SICP 816, Sony SICP 1206, Sony SICP 10083, Sony SICP 20001, Sony SICP 20258, Sony SICP 30216, Sony SICJ 30048/9, Mega Disc Legendary 1959, Sony SICP 30521/9, Columbia Legacy 86975 24922 [= Columbia (F) 86975 52492] (CD 10)

Adderley is out on all takes of "Blue in Green."

One of the three-track machines at this session ran slightly slow; since the original album was mixed from this tape, the issued masters were slightly sharp. This was first corrected for the gold Master Sound CD issue (CK 52861).

All of the items above are included on The Making of Kind of Blue (Kind of Blue KOB-001), Another Tracks of Kind of Blue (Core Collections CC-001), and The Sessions of Blue (Mega Disc Legendary 1959).