Young Man with a Horn (Miles Davis album)

Young Man with a Horn (also known as Miles Davis, Vol. 1) is the second 10-inch LP studio album by jazz musician Miles Davis. It was released through Blue Note Records in March 1953.[1] The recording was made at the WOR studios in New York in May 1952.[3]

Young Man with a Horn
Studio album by
Miles Davis
ReleasedMarch 1953 (1953-03)[1]
RecordedMay 9, 1952
StudioWOR Studios, New York City
GenreJazz
Length22:21
LabelBlue Note BLP 5013
Modern Jazz Series
10" vinyl, 33⅓ rpm, mono
ProducerAlfred Lion
Miles Davis chronology
The New Sounds
(1951)		 Young Man with a Horn
(1953)		 Blue Period
(1953)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[2]

Overview

The album was recorded at a time in his career while he was struggling with heroin addiction. This was the first of three 10"LPs recorded by Davis for Blue Note in the early 1950s. Davis says in his autobiography that his contract for Prestige Records, for whom he had recorded his first LP the year before, was non-exclusive, but elsewhere he states the initial Prestige contract was for only one year.[4]

All cuts were initially issued as singles except "How Deep Is the Ocean".[5][6] The recordings were re-released on 12 inch LPs in 1956 after Davis won the Down Beat readers poll as best trumpeter.[7][8] The original master takes were split and merged with Davis' two other sessions for Blue Note (Miles Davis Volume 1 and Volume 2).[9]

Release in Europe

Young Man with a Horn was also released by Vogue in France and the UK. The LP was reissued in its original form as 10" LP in Japan in 1999 (Toshiba-EMI) and in 2009 by the American audiophile Classic Records.[10]

Track listing
Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Dear Old Stockholm"Traditional, Stan Getz, arr. by Davis4:12
2."Woody 'n' You" (spelled "Would'n You" on the original artwork)Dizzy Gillespie3:22
3."Yesterdays"Jerome Kern, Otto Harbach3:42
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
4."Chance It" (a.k.a. "Max Is Making Wax")Oscar Pettiford, credited to Davis3:05
5."Donna" (a.k.a. "Dig")Miles Davis3:22
6."How Deep Is the Ocean?"Irving Berlin4:38
Total length:22:21

Personnel

References
  1. Editorial Staff, Billboard (March 21, 1953). "Other Records Released this Week". The Billboard. Cincinnati: The Billboard Publishing Co.
  2. Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.
  3. Miles Davis session index by the Jazz Discography Project on Jazzdisco.org. Retrieved on April 6, 2014
  4. "Miles: the Autobiography", Miles Davis with Quincy Troupe, 1989, pg.140, pg.153
  5. Bob Blumenthal in the liner notes to the RVG Edition of Miles Davis, Volume 1, Blue Note 2001. He does not mention the exception of "How Deep Is the Ocean".
  6. Blue Note 78 rpm singles on 78discography.com. Retrieved on April 6, 2014
  7. Leonard Feather in the original liner notes to Miles Davis Volume 1
  8. "1955 DownBeat Readers Poll". downbeat.com. 2016-03-06. Archived from the original on 2016-03-06. Retrieved 2023-10-09.
  9. Blue Note Records Discography: 1951-1952 by the Jazz Discography Project. Accessed May 2013.
  10. Young Man with a Horn at Discogs
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