MILES DAVIS QUINTET Cookin' With The Miles Davis Quintet (Original Jazz Classics 2026 limited edition 6-track LP pressed on 180-gram Black Vinyl. In 1956, Miles Davis had just signed a career-defining deal with Columbia, but remained contractually bound to Prestige for several more albums first. Rather than delay the move, he booked two single-day marathon sessions at Rudy Van Gelder's Hackensack studio, on 11 May and 26 October, and simply played through the quintet's livebook from top to bottom, almost entirely first takes, with the band effectively performing as though on stage. Those two days alone produced 26 tracks, enough material for four full albums: Cookin', Relaxin', Workin' and Steamin', all now considered cornerstones of hard bop. Cookin' was the first of the four to reach shelves, and its title came directly from Davis himself, who later summed the session up simply: "After all, that's what we did, came in and cooked." The record captures Davis alongside John Coltrane, Red Garland, Paul Chambers and Philly Joe Jones at the exact moment their chemistry as a working band was fully locked in. This edition arrives as part of a celebration of Miles Davis's centennial, all-analogue mastered from the original tapes by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio, pressed at RTI, and housed in a Stoughton Tip-On Jacket picture cover with spinewrap series obi, factory sealed. Recommended).