Dig (Miles Davis album)

Dig
Compilation album by Miles Davis
Released	January 1956[1]
Recorded	October 5, 1951 at Apex Studio, New York
Genre	Jazz
Length	34:45 (Original LP Format) 44:00 (CD Reissue)
Label	Prestige
Producer	Bob Weinstock
Miles Davis chronology
Blue Moods (1955) Dig (1956) Miles (1956)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[2]
PopMatters	7/10[3]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	[4]

Dig is an album by Miles Davis on Prestige Records, catalogue number 7012. It features tracks from a 1951 session at Apex Studios, remastered in 1956 by Rudy Van Gelder. Initially released in the twelve-inch format in 1956, Dig was later reissued as a compact disc with additional tracks. The original album was later released as Diggin' with the catalogue number PR 7281 and a different cover. That later version is the one currently widely available on vinyl although the expanded version of Dig is the one available on CD.

The material was originally released on two 10 inch LPs, except for "Denial," released on a 1954 7" (Prestige PREP 1361). "Dig" and "It's Only a Paper Moon" first appeared on The New Sounds (PRLP 124), as did "Conception" and "My Old Flame". "Bluing" and "Out of the Blue" were originally released on Blue Period (PRLP 140). When the material was reconfigured for the new 12inch format, "Conception" and "My Old Flame" were included on the Prestige various artists collection Conception (PRLP 7013).

After inaugurating the school of cool jazz with the Birth of the Cool recording sessions in 1949 and 1950, Davis almost immediately turned away from that sound in the early 1950s, to which this recording attests. Dig was also the jazz recording debut of saxophonist Jackie McLean.

Track listings

12" LP track listing

Side one
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Dig"	Jackie Mclean	7:33
2.	"It's Only a Paper Moon"	Harold Arlen, Yip Harburg & Billy Rose	5:23
3.	"Denial"	Miles Davis	5:39

Side two
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Bluing"	Miles Davis	9:55
2.	"Out of the Blue"	Miles Davis	6:15
Total length:			34:45

CD track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Dig"	Jackie Mclean	7:33
2.	"It's Only a Paper Moon"	Harold Arlen, Yip Harburg & Billy Rose	5:23
3.	"Denial"	Miles Davis	5:39
4.	"Bluing"	Miles Davis	9:55
5.	"Out of the Blue"	Miles Davis	6:15
6.	"Conception"	George Shearing	4:01
7.	"My Old Flame"	Sam Coslow	6:34
Total length:			44:00

Personnel

• Miles Davis – trumpet
• Jackie McLean – alto saxophone (on "Dig" and all Davis originals)
• Sonny Rollins – tenor saxophone
• Walter Bishop, Jr. – piano
• Tommy Potter – double bass
• Art Blakey – drums

References

1. Billboard Feb 4, 1956
2. Yanow, Scott (2011). "Dig [Bonus Tracks] - Sonny Rollins | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 2 August 2011.
3. PopMatters review
4. Swenson, J. (Editor) (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 57. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.