Workin' with the Miles Davis Quintet

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{{Infobox album

| name = Workin' with the Miles Davis Quintet

| type = studio

| artist = Miles Davis

| cover = MilesDavis Workin.jpg

| alt =

| released = {{start date|1960|1}}{{refn|name=rel}}

| recorded = May 11 and October 26, 1956

| venue =

| studio = Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack

| genre = Jazz

| length = 41:59

| label = Prestige

| producer = Bob Weinstock

| prev_title = Jazz Track

| prev_year = 1959

| next_title = Sketches of Spain

| next_year = 1960

}}

{{Album ratings

| rev1 = All About Jazz

| rev1Score = favorable{{cite news | title=Workin' with the Miles Davis Quintet| url =http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=23846| publisher = All About Jazz | access-date = October 28, 2016}}

| rev2 = AllMusic

| rev2Score = {{Rating|5|5}}{{cite news | title=Workin' with the Miles Davis Quintet| url =http://www.allmusic.com/album/r106092| publisher = AllMusic | access-date = October 28, 2016}}

| rev3 = DownBeat

| rev3score = {{rating|5|5}}{{Cite magazine |last=Gleason |first=Ralph J. |author-link=Ralph J. Gleason |date=17 March 1960 |title=Miles Davis: Workin' with the Miles Davis Quintet |magazine=DownBeat |volume=27 |issue=6 |page=34}}

| rev4 = The Encyclopedia of Popular Music

| rev4Score = {{Rating|5|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}}

| rev7 = The Rolling Stone Album Guide

| rev7Score = {{Rating|5|5}}{{cite book|editor1-last=DeCurtis|editor1-first=Anthony|editor1-link=Anthony DeCurtis|editor2-last=Henke|editor2-first=James|editor3-last=George-Warren|editor3-first=Holly|date=October 27, 1992|title=The Rolling Stone Album Guide|publisher=Random House|edition=3rd|isbn=0679737294|page=179}}

|rev8 = The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide

| rev8Score = {{rating|4|5}}{{Cite book

|editor-last=Swenson

|editor-first=J.

| year = 1985

| title = The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide

| publisher = Random House/Rolling Stone

| location = USA

| isbn = 0-394-72643-X

| pages = 58

}}

|rev6 = The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings

|rev6score = {{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=342}}

|rev5 = Tom Hull

|rev5Score = A−{{cite web|last=Hull|first=Tom|author-link=Tom Hull (critic)|date=n.d.|url=http://www.tomhull.com/ocston/nm/jazz-40s.html|title=Jazz (1940s-50s)|website=tomhull.com|access-date=March 3, 2020|archive-date=August 19, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240819143836/http://www.tomhull.com/ocston/nm/jazz-40s.html|url-status=live}}

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Workin' with the Miles Davis Quintet is an album by the Miles Davis Quintet, released in January 1960 by Prestige Records.{{refn|name=rel|{{Cite book |last=DeVito |first=Chris |title=The John Coltrane Reference |last2=Fujioka |first2=Yasuhiro |last3=Schmaler |first3=Wolf |last4=Wild |first4=David |date=2013 |publisher=Routledge |url=https://www.routledge.com/The-John-Coltrane-Reference/Porter-DeVito-Wild-Fujioka-Schmaler/p/book/9780415634632 |access-date=January 2, 2020 |isbn=9780415634632 |editor-last=Porter |editor-first=Lewis |editor-link=Lewis Porter |location=New York/Abingdon |page=448}}{{cite news |title=Workin' with the Miles Davis Quintet |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-x4EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA32 |access-date=October 22, 2019 |work=The Billboard |publisher=The Billboard Publishing Co. |date=February 8, 1960}}{{cite news |title=December Album Releases |url=https://americanradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Music/Archive-Cash-Box-IDX/50s/1959/CB-1959-12-12-OCR-Page-0059.pdf |access-date=October 22, 2019 |work=The Cash Box |publisher=The Cash Box Publishing Co. Inc., NY |date=December 12, 1959}}{{cite news |title=Jazz Picks of the Week |url=https://americanradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Music/Archive-Cash-Box-IDX/60s/1960/CB-1960-02-06-OCR-Page-0039.pdf |access-date=October 22, 2019 |work=The Cash Box |publisher=The Cash Box Publishing Co. Inc., NY |date=February 6, 1960}}}} It was recorded in two sessions on May 11 and October 26, 1956, that produced four albums: this one, Relaxin' with the Miles Davis Quintet, Steamin' with the Miles Davis Quintet and Cookin' with the Miles Davis Quintet.

Track 2 is a composition written for Davis by Eddie Vinson (see Blue Haze for more details). "Trane's Blues" (also known as "Vierd Blues", a tongue-in-cheek reference to Blue Note founder Francis Wolff's heavily accented verdict on it), also credited to Davis, is in fact a John Coltrane composition (originally titled "John Paul Jones", and from an earlier session led by bassist Paul Chambers; before the closing statement of theme, Coltrane and Davis play a bit of Charlie Parker's "The Hymn").