![]() Davis' friends Charlie Parker and Charles Mingus both attended this recording session, with Mingus contributing an uncredited bass part to "Conception". The four tracks on this album were recorded at New York's Apex Studio on October 5, 1951, along with two tracks ("Bluing" and "Out of the Blue") that would later be used on his next Prestige album, Blue Period, (PRLP 140), and a seventh track, "Denial", which would later appear on the 12"LP Dig (PRLP 7012). ![]() Weinstock had just started his new jazz specialty record label, and wanted Davis on his label so bad he tracked him across the country, to Chicago where he was performing with Billie Holiday, and offered him a one-year contract. His previous label, Capitol, had been disappointed with the sales of the nonet recordings released in 1949/50, and they had not offered Davis more work, when he was contacted by Prestige's Bob Weinstock. Prestige would be Davis' label for the next five years, with occasional recordings for Blue Note and Debut, until he signed with Columbia in 1955. Davis had previously contributed three tracks to the Prestige compilation LP Modern Jazz Trumpets and appeared as a sideman on the 10-inch LP Lee Konitz: The New Sounds. It is his first album as a leader and his first full album for Prestige Records. The New Sounds is the debut solo studio album by Miles Davis, released in late 1951 as a 10-inch LP. ![]()
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