SDP Jazz Note: The Miles Davis Quintet

I have been slowly building a jazz collection around the great work produced between 1955 and 1965.  In the year before I was born, 1956, the Miles Davis Quintet produced a marvelous series of recordings.  The titles are Cookin', Relaxin', Workin', and Steamin'.  These represent what the Quintet was doing on the road in that year.  In addition to Miles' trumpet, which might rank at the most influential piece of brass in modern jazz, John Coltrane plays his sax.  Any list of Coltrane's best recordings includes these disks.  Red Garland plays piano, Paul Chambers bass, with Philly Joe Jones on drums.  Together the four CDs make a foundation for any jazz collection.  If you have ever listened to the Guy Noir feature on A Prarie Home Companion, you have heard music that imitates this body of work.