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FACTORY SEALED, from 1997....DCC products are all out of print. The company was well known for their outstanding sound and music on both the CD and LP formats.

Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926 – September 28, 1991) was an American jazz musician, trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. Widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Miles Davis was, with his musical groups, at the forefront of several major developments in jazz music, including bebop, cool jazz, hard bop, modal jazz, and jazz fusion.

On October 7, 2008, his 1959 album Kind of Blue received its fourth platinum certification from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), for shipments of at least four million copies in the United States. Miles Davis was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2006. Davis was noted as "one of the key figures in the history of jazz". On December 15, 2009, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a symbolic resolution recognizing and commemorating the album Kind of Blue on its 50th anniversary, "honoring the masterpiece and reaffirming jazz as a national treasure.

Miles Davis is regarded as one of the most innovative, influential and respected figures in the history of music. He has been described as “one of the great innovators in jazz”. The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll noted "Miles Davis played a crucial and inevitably controversial role in every major development in jazz since the mid-'40s, and no other jazz musician has had so profound an effect on rock. Miles Davis was the most widely recognized jazz musician of his era, an outspoken social critic and an arbiter of style—in attitude and fashion—as well as music". His album Kind of Blue is the best-selling album in the history of jazz music. On November 5, 2009, Rep. John Conyers of Michigan sponsored a measure in the United States House of Representatives to recognize and commemorate the album on its 50th anniversary. The measure also affirms jazz as a national treasure and "encourages the United States government to preserve and advance the art form of jazz music." It passed, unanimously, with a vote of 409–0 on December 15, 2009.

As an innovative bandleader and composer, Miles Davis has influenced many notable musicians and bands from diverse genres. Many well-known musicians rose to prominence as members of Davis's ensembles, including saxophonists Gerry Mulligan, John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley, George Coleman, Wayne Shorter, Dave Liebman, Branford Marsalis and Kenny Garrett; trombonist J. J. Johnson; pianists Horace Silver, Red Garland, Wynton Kelly, Bill Evans, Herbie Hancock, Joe Zawinul, Chick Corea, Keith Jarrett and Kei Akagi; guitarists John McLaughlin, Pete Cosey, John Scofield and Mike Stern; bassists Paul Chambers, Ron Carter, Dave Holland, Marcus Miller and Darryl Jones; and drummers Elvin Jones, Philly Joe Jones, Jimmy Cobb, Tony Williams, Billy Cobham, Jack DeJohnette, and Al Foster. Miles' influence on the people who played with him has been described by music writer and author Christopher Smith as follows:

Miles Davis' artistic interest was in the creation and manipulation of ritual space, in which gestures could be endowed with symbolic power sufficient to form a functional communicative, and hence musical, vocabulary. [...] Miles' performance tradition emphasized orality and the transmission of information and artistic insight from individual to individual. His position in that tradition, and his personality, talents, and artistic interests, impelled him to pursue a uniquely individual solution to the problems and the experiential possibilities of improvised performance. His approach, owing largely to the African American performance tradition that focused on individual expression, emphatic interaction, and creative response to shifting contents, had a profound impact on generations of jazz musicians.

In 1986, the New England Conservatory awarded Miles Davis an Honorary Doctorate for his extraordinary contributions to music. Since 1960 the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS) has honored him with eight Grammy Awards, a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, and three Grammy Hall of Fame Awards. In 2010, Moldejazz premiered a play called Driving Miles, which focused on a landmark concert Davis performed in Molde, Norway, in 1984.

Miles Davis and Milt Jackson Quintet/Sextet, also known as Quintet / Sextet and sometimes also Miles Davis and Milt Jackson, is an album which compiles recordings made for Prestige Records on August 5, 1955 by Miles Davis. Credited to "Miles Davis and Milt Jackson", this was an "all-star" session, and did not feature any of the members of Davis's working group of the time (Sonny Rollins, Red Garland, Paul Chambers and Philly Joe Jones). Jackie McLean only plays on his own compositions.

After the release of the Blue Moods, a collaboration with Charles Mingus on which Davis only participated to pay back the fees to Mingus, Davis recorded with his new band in New York's Café Bohemia. The band included the young Sonny Rollins (saxophone) as well as the backing band consisting of Red Garland, Paul Chambers and Philly Joe Jones, who were later hired for his Miles Davis Quintet with John Coltrane. Coltrane, however, did not play in the August studio for the current working band, but with the "All Star" lineup, with Milt Jackson (vibraphone), Percy Heath (bassist) and Art Taylor (drums). Davis also hired the pianist Ray Bryant, because he wanted a bebop sound.

Together with Milt Jackson and Percy Heath, Davis recorded with Thelonious Monk during the 1954 winter session, (Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants). Art Taylor was back then a kind of a "house drummer" for the Prestige label. Sonny Rollins was replaced with the young alto saxophonist Jackie McLean, who arranged the two compositions on which he played, "Dr. Jackle" and "Minor March", the latter the only up-tempo tune in that session. "Minor March" was later renamed to "Minor Apprehension" and included on his 1959 Blue Note album New Soil.

The tune "Dr. Jackle" shows McLean's connection with the Blues as well as with Charlie Parker, Miles is in a typical lyrical position and Ray Bryant plays in soul-driven, dancy fashion. "Minor March" has rhythmical breaks and a bridge, showing similarities with Bud Powell's "Tempus Fugit"; McLean's cadentials and screams anticipate the style of the future Blue Note recordings.

It was the last joint session by Miles Davis and Percy Heath as well as the only striking performance by pianist Ray Bryant, who arranged the composition on "Blues Changes" (later renamed to "Changes"). Davis plays trumpet with a mute on this track, which has a typical romantic-tranquil mood. Thad Jones' composition "Ditty Bitty" is characterized by Bryant's playing style of blues, gospel and bebop.

Quintet / Sextet received overall positive reception. Davis' biographer Peter Wießmüller said that this album is "way more straight lined and intensive than Blue Moods, released four weeks prior", and "the pendulum in Miles' stylistical progression hits to the direction of the experimental workup of the bebop into a closed hardbop concept, and conservative as well as progressive elements are getting fused with each other; (...) the subtile arrangements of Blue Moods are yielded towards a certain expressive hardness”.

The saxophonist McLean is encouraged from his background musicians to markedly long and fantastic solo plays in the typical arrangements of "Dr. Jackle" and "Minor March". The short session is revived through "the excellent vibraphone play by Milt Jackson and Jackie McLean's extroverted alt phrasing, which emphasizes Bird's heritage more than before, greatly revive the musical scene.”

Critics Richard Cook and Brian Morton awarded the album 4 out of 5 stars in Penguin Guide to Jazz. Scott Yanow from Allmusic only gave the album 3 out of 5 stars, and stated it was "one of the most obscure of [Davis'] Prestige recordings", but its quality is still "fairly high". He named "Dr. Jackle" and "Minor March" as his highlights.

Lesser heralded than their collaboration with Monk (as documented on BAGS' GROOVE and MILES DAVIS AND THE MODERN JAZZ GIANTS), this August 5, 1955 session with vibraphonist Milt Jackson was Miles' last all-star collaboration before the formation of his first classic quintet. It marked a farewell to an older generation of acolytes and fellow travellers. Miles was entering a new era of leadership and international stardom, and generally he would only record with his working groups. QUINTET/SEXTET is notable for two compositions by Jackie McLean: "Dr. Jackle" and "Minor March" (it appears on his famous 1959 Blue Note date NEW SOIL as "Minor Apprehension"). The former is a Charlie Parker-ish line featuring a masterful Milt Jackson symposium on the blues--Miles' typically lyric approach, a tart, spacious flight from McLean, and a soulful, dancing Ray Bryant. The latter is a mysterious minor figure with jabbing rhythm breaks and a joyous bridge that recalls "Tempus Fugit." McLean's vaulting cadences and fervent cry anticipate the rapture of his mature style, and Bryant takes a harmonically adventuresome solo. Elsewhere the group digs into the Bud Powell-like changes of Ray Bryant's low, slow "Changes" (over the rock solid groove of Percy Heath and Art Taylor), and the quirky harmonies and angular melodies of Thad Jones' "Bitty Ditty." "Changes" inspires a lovely muted statement from Davis, and illustrates Bryant's unique blend of blues, sanctified gospel and bebop. Davis and Jackson combine for pungent voicings on the head to "Bitty Ditty," then demonstrate their elegant mastery of harmony and swing. Both are inspired by the shape of Jones' line, completely unfazed by its intricacies.

Editorial Reviews - 4 stars out of 5 - ...packs more excitement and inspiration into half an hour than a good deal of the more substantial and feted Davis/Coltrane sessions that would follow....vibraphonist Milt Jackson is in unusually aggressive mood and Davis himself is at his sweetest....Q

This listing is for a long out of print and very rare audiophile GOLD CD title - a FACTORY SEALED and assumed to be in MINT overall condition 24kt GOLD CD set PRESSED and ISSUED by DCC of a highly collectible title from the DCC catalog, featuring -

Miles Davis / Milt Jackson

Gold CD Title -

Miles Davis and Milt Jackson - Quintet / Sextet (All-Stars)

Track Listing -

1. Dr. Jackle - Written-By – Jackie McLean - 8:52
2. Bitty Ditty - Written-By – Thad Jones - 6:35
3. Minor March - Written-By – McLean - 8:15
4. Changes - Written-By – Ray Bryant - 7:11

Credits, Performers, Other Information -

• Marketed By – DCC Compact Classics
• Recorded By – Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey
• Manufactured By – DCC Compact Classics
• Alto Saxophone – Jackie McLean (tracks: 1, 3)
• Bass – Percy Heath
• Drums – Art Taylor
• Mastered By – Steve Hoffman
• Piano – Ray Bryant
• Trumpet – Miles Davis
• Vibraphone – Milt Jackson
• Recorded in Hackensack, New Jersey; August 5, 1955. 
• Barcode: 010963111323

The 24kt Gold CD is from the ultra-rare DCC series of audiophile, 24kt. GOLD CDs (long out of print).

  • Gold CD re-mastered by Steve Hoffman
  • 24kt. GOLD CD manufactured in the USA or Japan - can't tell for certain until the item has been opened and the CD is physically checked.
  • Jewel Case IS the original flip up type
  • This item DOES come with the paper outer slip cover - it is complete.
  • The original LP was issued on the PRESTIGE record label, in 1956 (recordings are from 1955, in MONO)
  • The DCC Gold CD set was issued in 1997
  • Gold CD catalog # GZS 1113

The 24kt Gold CD, JEWEL CASE AND INSERTS are all assumed to be in MINT overall condition as this CD is actually FACTORY SEALED!

This CD is an audiophile quality pressing (any collector of fine MFSL, half speeds, direct to discs, Japanese/UK pressings etc., can attest to the difference a quality pressing can make to an audio system).

Do not let this rarity slip by!