Miles Davis, from his beginnings as a nineteen-year-old kid in 1945 New

York City, to his final days in the early 1990's, is to be considers one of the jazz's

best. The 1996 album entitled, Bluing: Miles Davis Plays the Blues, the engineers at

Prestige Records bring Miles Davis back to life. Packed with over 73 minutes and

12 bar blues, Bluing brings nine great tunes of Davis' together on one disk. Having

been originally recorded in the 1950's, these nine cuts take the listener through a

decade of music and a decade of Davis' life. On the opening track, entitled "Bluing",

we hear nearly ten minutes of Davis on trumpet, Jackie McLean on alto sax, Sonny

Rollins on tenor, Walter Bishop, Jr. on piano, Tommy Porter on bass, and Art

Blakey playing the drums. Bishop provides the intro of the song on

song the group picks it up a bit and begins playing double-time, only to slow it back

did a great job of choosing nine of Davis' blues tunes to compile onto one disk.

track mostly for the tone Davis achieves and the moderate tempo. However, during

Originally issued on Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants: Bags' Groove, this song

Rollins' tenor solo and then again for the last minute or so of the song, Davis and

In the end, for me, this track is made classic by a botched ending on the part

Track five has come to be my favorite on the album Bluing. Entitled "Green

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