*****ALBUMS: 7) MILES DAVIS: MILES SMILES (1967) “A classic post bop album that pushes the boundaries of hard bop and flirts with the avant-garde.”   MILES SMILES was recorded in two sessions on 24 th  and 25 th  October 1966 at the Columbia 30 th  Street Studio, New York   TRACKS: Orbits, Circle, Footprints, Dolores, Freedom Jazz Dance, Ginger Bread Boy .   MUSICIANS: Miles Davis, trumpet, Wayne Shorter, tenor sax, Herbie Hancock, acoustic and electric piano, Ron Carter, bas

*****ALBUMS: 5) WORKIN’ WITH THE MILES DAVIS QUINTET “Part of a series of four compilations of recordings released years later and, arguably the best.” Miles Davis’ ‘Workin’ was recorded in 1956 (There were two sessions on 11 th  May (the majority of the album) and 26 th  October (the piece entitled Half Nelson as part of a contractual obligation to Prestige Records before Davis departed for Columbia Records that produced Workin’ and three other albums, Relaxin’, Steamin’ and

*****ALBUMS: 4) KIND OF BLUE “Has come to be regarded as a go-to jazz album” MILES DAVIS: Based on modality rather than Hard Bop, KIND OF BLUE (1959) (Columbia) (Sextet) (New York) was recorded over two sessions on 2 nd  and 22 nd  April?, 1959 and released on 17 th August, 1959. TRACKS: So What, All Blues, Freddie Freeloader, Blue in Green, Flamenco Sketches MUSICIANS: Miles Davis, trumpet; John Coltrane, tenor sax; Julian ‘Cannonball’ Adderley, alto sax; Bill Evans/ Wynton