At Newport 1958 Explained

Miles Davis at Newport 1958
Type:	live
Artist:	Miles Davis
Cover:	Miles Davis at Newport 1958.jpg
Recorded:	July 3, 1958
Venue:	Newport Jazz Festival Newport, Rhode Island
Genre:	Jazz
Length:	40:20
Label:	Columbia/Legacy
Producer:	George Avakian, Bob Belden, Michael Cuscuna
Next Title:	Super Hits
Next Year:	2001

At Newport 1958 is a live album by the jazz musician Miles Davis featuring the Miles Davis Quintet's complete performance recorded at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1958. The album was first released as a single CD in 2001 though four tracks had previously been released in part as one side of the LP Miles & Monk at Newport (Columbia, 1964). The entire concert was given its first complete release as part of The Complete Columbia Recordings of Miles Davis with John Coltrane box set in 1999, and all tracks were included on the 2015 compilation .

Track listing

1. Introduction by Willis Conover - 2:16
2. "Ah-leu-cha" (Charlie Parker) - 5:53
3. "Straight, No Chaser" (Thelonious Monk) - 8:48
4. "Fran-Dance" (Miles Davis) - 7:14
5. "Two Bass Hit" (John Lewis, Dizzy Gillespie) - 4:11
6. "Bye Bye Blackbird" (Mort Dixon, Ray Henderson) - 9:11
7. "The Theme" (Davis) - 2:49

Tracks 2-5 originally issued on Miles & Monk at Newport; tracks 6 and 7 originally issued on Newport Jazz Festival Live;John Coltrane appears courtesy of Prestige Records.

Personnel

• Miles Davis - trumpet
• Cannonball Adderley - alto saxophone
• John Coltrane - tenor saxophone
• Bill Evans - piano
• Paul Chambers - double bass
• Jimmy Cobb - drums