Bags' Groove
{{About|the Miles Davis album|the composition by Milt Jackson|Bags' Groove (composition)}}
{{Infobox album|
| name = Bags' Groove
| type = Compilation
| artist = Miles Davis
| cover = Image-bagsgroove.jpg
| alt =
| released = Early December 1957{{cite magazine | title=Billboard – December 16, 1957 (Page 38)| url =https://books.google.com/books?id=wR0EAAAAMBAJ&q=Groove+miles&pg=PA38|magazine = Billboard |date = 16 December 1957| access-date = October 28, 2016}}
| recorded = June 29 & December 24, 1954
| venue =
| studio = Van Gelder Studio
Hackensack, New Jersey
| genre = Jazz
| length = 46:11
| label = Prestige
{{small|PRLP 7109}}
| producer = Bob Weinstock
| prev_title = Miles Ahead
| prev_year = 1957
| next_title = Relaxin' with the Miles Davis Quintet
| next_year = 1958
}}
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = AllMusic
| rev1Score = {{Rating|5|5}}{{cite news | title=Miles Davis – Bags' Groove| url =http://www.allmusic.com/album/bags-groove-mw0000649467| publisher = AllMusic | access-date = October 28, 2016}}
| rev2 = The Encyclopedia of Popular Music
| rev2Score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite book|last=Larkin|first=Colin|author-link=Colin Larkin|title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music|year=2007|publisher=Oxford University Press|edition=4th|isbn=978-0195313734|title-link=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music}}
|rev3 = The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings
|rev3score = {{Rating|3.5|4}}{{cite book |last1=Cook |first1=Richard |authorlink1=Richard Cook (journalist) |last2=Morton |first2=Brian |authorlink2=Brian Morton (Scottish writer) |title=The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings |year=2008 |edition=9th |publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-0-141-03401-0 |page=341}}
|rev4 = Tom Hull
}}
Bags' Groove (PRLP 7109) is a jazz album by Miles Davis, released in 1957 by Prestige, compiling material from two 10" LPs recorded in 1954, plus two alternative takes.
Recording
Both takes of the title track come from a session on December 24, 1954, the first version having been previously released on Miles Davis All Stars, Volume 1 (PRLP 196). ("Bags" was vibraphonist Milt Jackson's nickname.) The other tracks recorded during this session may be found on Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants (PRLP 7150), and all of them are also featured on the compilation album Thelonious Monk: The Complete Prestige Recordings. The rest of the album was recorded earlier in the year, on June 29, and four of the tracks had already been released as Miles Davis with Sonny Rollins (PRLP 187), with the fifth being a previously unreleased alternative take.
Music
The title track was written by Milt "Bags" Jackson and the three compositions written by the young Sonny Rollins all went on to become jazz standards. On "Oleo", Davis uses a Harmon mute to obtain a unique timbre, one that would become an iconic aspect of his sound.
Track listing
Prestige – LP 7109:
{{Track listing
| headline = Side one
| title1 = Bags' Groove
| note1 = Take 1
| writer1 = Milt Jackson
| length1 = 11:16
| title2 = Bags' Groove
| note2 = Take 2
| writer2 = Jackson
| length2 = 9:24
}}
{{Track listing
| headline = Side two
| total_length = 46:11
| title1 = Airegin
| writer1 = Sonny Rollins
| length1 = 5:01
| title2 = Oleo
| writer2 = Rollins
| length2 = 5:14
| title3 = But Not for Me
| note3 = Take 2
| writer3 = {{hlist|George Gershwin|Ira Gershwin}}
| length3 = 4:36
| title4 = Doxy
| writer4 = Rollins
| length4 = 4:55
| title5 = But Not for Me
| note5 = Take 1
| writer5 = {{hlist|Gershwin|Gershwin}}
| length5 = 5:45
}}
Personnel
= June 29, 1954 (Side two) =
= December 24, 1954 (Side one) =
- Miles Davis – trumpet
- Milt Jackson – vibraphone
- Thelonious Monk – piano
- Percy Heath – bass
- Kenny Clarke – drums
References
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{{Miles Davis}}{{Milt Jackson}}{{Thelonious Monk}}{{Horace Silver}}
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Category:1957 compilation albums
Category:Prestige Records compilation albums
Category:Albums produced by Bob Weinstock