Miles Davis - Dig

Another example of Prestige's policy of stretching out past the confines of the three-minute recording, instituted with Zoot Sims in August 1951. While this October session does not include any numbers that take up an entire LP side, no track is less than 5:23, the title track is 7:33, and the classic "Bluing" is five seconds short of 10 minutes. It also spotlights three young musicians — Sonny Rollins, Jackie McLean and Walter Bishop — who grew up playing in the same Harlem neighborhood band during the first flowering of bebop.

1. Dig

2. It's Only a Paper Moon

3. Denial

4. Bluing

5. Out of the Blue

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