Miles Davis Quintet • Complete Café Bohemia Bandstand USA 1956-58 Radio Broadcasts • Volume 1

The first volume of Complete Café Bohemia – Bandstand U.S.A. 1956–58 Radio Broadcasts captures Miles Davis's quintet with John Coltrane, Red Garland, Paul Chambers and Philly Joe Jones, as heard on Mutual Network broadcasts from Greenwich Village, New York. Original announcements, including Guy Wallace's, are preserved alongside historically reconstructed performances.

Available edition

Black-vinyl 33 rpm LP, GRooVE back Records, GBR00124. This archival series spans roughly 120 minutes over three volumes.

Café Bohemia and the recording

At 15 Barrow Street, Café Bohemia was a focal point of modern jazz and the radio program Bandstand U.S.A. The project draws on the best surviving mono sources, with pitch and speed correction, source restoration and remastering.

Musicians

Miles Davis — trumpet; John Coltrane — tenor saxophone; Red Garland — piano; Paul Chambers — double bass; Philly Joe Jones — drums; Guy Wallace — broadcast announcements.

Tracklist

Side A

1. Announcement by Guy Wallace — 2:01
2. Well You Needn’t — 5:48
3. It Never Entered My Mind — 5:02
4. A Gal in Calico — 4:43
5. Stablemates — 3:48

Side B

1. How Am I to Know? — 3:03
2. The Theme — 1:34
3. Woody’n You — 3:58
4. Walkin’ [Gravy] — 7:10
5. All of You — 2:25

Credits

Executive production: Massimo Corvino. Historical research, source reconstruction, speed correction, remastering and liner notes: Enrico Merlin. Final audio supervision: Marco Lincetto. Research assistance: Giovanni Principe and Ginger Minneman. Original cover photograph: Marvin Koner, outside Café Bohemia, May–June 1956. Art direction and album design: Roberto Mares.