Talk:Blue Period (album)

Blue Period was not Miles' first album for Prestige

PRLP 124  Miles Davis - The New Sounds came first and should be listed

see this pg for Miles' Prestige 10inch lps, which are a lot more than what is currently listed here in wikipedia

http://www.jazzdisco.org/prestige-records/catalog-100-200-series/#prlp-124

see here for the artwork of Miles's real first album

http://www.plosin.com/MilesAhead/Covers.aspx?id=NewSounds

the chronology in this Wikipdia discography is currently way out of order, perhaps because of the confusion of session dates vs release dates

go by the labels number, eg PRLP 124 preceded PRLP 140, which in turn was followed by PRLP 154  Miles Davis Plays Al Cohn Compositions, also not listed here

Dig! did not come out next, it was released a few years later when the 12inch format superseded the 10inch format, repackaging material from these first two 10inch lps

see here for here sequence of Prestige 12 inch releases: http://www.jazzdisco.org/prestige-records/catalog-7000-series/#prlp-7007

it looks like Musing of Miles was the first 12inch release of new material, followd quickly by Dig! and other repackagings of older 10inch material, therefor Dig! came out no earlier than summer 1955

J Edward McMilesFan — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.250.254.58 (talk) 01:54, 8 March 2014 (UTC)

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I removed the text ", it was his first release for Prestige Records, and his major-label debut album", as neither statement is true. If I can figure out how to make a new page, I will create one for "PRLP 124  Miles Davis - The New Sounds"

J Edward Malone (talk) 23:58, 9 May 2014 (UTC)

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I've ch'd the release date to 1953 and adjusted the chronology

the Jazz discography Project shows the previous Prestige LP PRLP 139 "Billy Taylor Trio" to have been recorded December 10, 1952, so this LP could have been out no earlier than the 1952 Christmas market (http://www.jazzdisco.org/prestige-records/catalog-100-200-series/#prlp-140)

and discogs calls it a 1953 album, they actually have it sequenced after Blue Note Vol 2 (http://www.discogs.com/artist/23755-Miles-Davis)

I'm guessing Miles was so unproductive during his heroin days Prestige finally resorted to packaging leftovers, which is what this album would have been by 1953 ... maybe they suddenly saw him as marketable again after they saw he'd put out an album (or two) for rival Blue Note? or maybe they'd already tried to record the notorious early 1953 session w Miles & Bird (Collectors Items) and having nothing usable put out an album of leftovers instead? all speculation, but there may be a story here

J Edward Malone (talk) 02:28, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

The article could perhaps include information about the mistakes on the record label, which are repeated in the recent reissue for faithfulness. The B-side label mistakenly lists the personnel for "Out of the Blue" as being the personnel for "Blue Room" instead. Safulop (talk) 07:31, 16 March 2023 (UTC) ______________________________________________________