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Quiet Nights

Miles Davis

Recorded	1962
Label	CBS/Sony
Released	1962
Personnel	5 credited players
Discogs	master 203651

The record

Bossa nova heat gets filtered through Gil Evans' writing, the trumpet keeping its cool, vibrato-free phrasing even as the rhythms turn tropical. Slighter than the earlier Evans records, but the Latin haze still holds up.

Session personnel

Ron Carter — bass
Frank Butler — drums
Victor Feldman — piano
George Coleman — tenor saxophone
Miles Davis — trumpet

Contemporary reception

No period review located yet. The vintage-press pipeline searches DownBeat, Cash Box, and Billboard for this session.

Pressings

The earliest we list is a 1963 UK CBS mono, and the 1963 US Columbia pressings sit right alongside it -- stereo CS 8906, and CL 2106 in mono, though our only 1963 US mono is a promo, with stock mono copies dated 1964. UK stereo runs as SBPG 62213. Nothing later is an audiophile reissue; the list simply repeats CL 2106 and CS 8906 into 1971.

Showing the first pressing, audiophile reissues and copies carrying a collector marker, out of 83 pressings on file.

1963	Columbia · CS 8906 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo earliest on file
1967	Columbia · 62.213 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono, Deep groove at center of labels · deep groove; laminated sleeve
1963	CBS · BFG 62213 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono
1963	Columbia · CL 2106 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono, Promo
1963	CBS · BPG 62213 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono
1963	CBS · 62213 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono
1963	CBS · SBPG 62213 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo · laminated sleeve
1963	Columbia · CS 8906 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, Terre Haute Press
1963	CBS · SBPG 62213 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
1964	Columbia · CS 8906 — Vinyl, LP, Stereo, Album
1964	Columbia · CL 2106 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono
1964	CBS · SBPG 62213 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
1964	Columbia · CL 2106 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono
1964	Columbia · CQ 608 — Reel-To-Reel, 7 ½ ips, 4-Track Stereo, 7" Cine Reel, Album, Stereo