Someday My Prince Will Come [Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered]

Miles Davis | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 8, 1999)
• Original Release Date: 1961
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B00000J7SU
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #130,746 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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23 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars at last, September 23, 2000

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Sean M. Kelly (Portland, Oregon United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Someday My Prince Will Come (Audio CD)

It has been way, way too long since this wonderful lp has been properly released and treated with the respect it deserves.

Miles' band was in transition during this point. Coltrane had left the group 1 year earlier, and former Jazz Messenger Hank Mobley (a very competent tenor player) had joined the band literally weeks prior to going to record this lp, and it shows. Mobley seemed very uncomfortable in his new position, trying to find his place in it. His style had not meshed with the group's. Then again, the group was searching for its style, as well...

Mobley's main contributions to the lp, "Drad-dog," "Pfrancing," the sombre and beautiful "Old Folks," and "I Thought About You," all are fine tracks, with Mobley's blues orientation coming to the fore, though they didn't match well with Miles' solos...

The additions of John Coltrane and Philly Joe Jones were both chance happenings, but their playing re-ignits a fire under Miles, Wynton Kelly, and Paul Chambers, that can't be ignored. Coltrane's solo on the title track is a beautiful counterpoint to Mobley's- Trane brimming with ideas and confience while Mobley tries to find his place...

To be fair, by the time the "Blackhawk" concerts were released, both Mobley and the band are back in very high gear, with Mobley adding beautifully to the overall style and character of the group..

Perhaps in heinsight this lp should not have been recorded when it was, and allow Mobley to play live with the group to better fit in..but then again had they not recorded this lp, we would not have gotten Coltrane's last moments of glory with Miles, and that would have been a shame.

13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Essential Jazz and Essential Miles Davis, February 28, 2000

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Mark Devey "misterd40" (Murrieta, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Someday My Prince Will Come (Audio CD)

"Someday My Prince Will Come" is another in a line of recent re-issues by Columbia/Legacy of Miles Davis catalog. This ranks near the top of my list of Miles' Davis CDs (together with "Kind of Blue," "Miles Smiles," "'Round About Midnight," "In a Silent Way," "Porgy and Bess," and "Sketches of Spain"). This CD contains some of Miles' best ballads ("Old Folks"), blues ("Drad Dog") and swing ("Pfrancing"). As with all of the Columbia/Legacy reissues, there are two excellent bonus tracks ("Blues No. 2" and an alternative take of the title track). Columbia/Legacy does the best CD re-issues in the business (see The Byrds re-mastered catalog) and every Columbia/Legacy re-mastered Jazz CD I have purchased (Weather Report, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Louis Armstrong, etc.) is worth buying. If you love Jazz this is an essential CD.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars a truly beautiful moment, February 6, 2004

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This review is from: Someday My Prince Will Come (Audio CD)

It has long been in vogue to show indifference towards Mile's albums with Mobley on horn. This has never made sense to me. Mobley has always deserved to be considered more than a second tier player. The list of important blue note albums he appeared as a side man on alone should have assured that. That is not to mention the masterpieces done under his own name. And of course the things he did with Miles. I will be the first to admit that unlike the ensembles that came before or after this particular group there were no new innovations. Innovations are "sacrificed" for pure mood and emotion. The rest of the band too is in top form. Every player here has fantastic tone and great interplay, sharing beautiful moments with an almost psychic link. This album is as good as any of the fantasy/prestige albums (Wokin et al.)The remastering too is amazing, listen the first time with headphones, there is a lot going on. Coltrane shows up for two songs too, an extra gift. Why not 5 stars? That is Kind Of Blue and Nefertiti territory which this falls just short of.