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Walkin' is an album recorded on 3 April and 29 April 1954 by a group led by Miles Davis, for Prestige Records. Credited to the "Miles Davis All-Stars", the first session was a quintet with David Schildkraut on alto saxophone. Schildkraut is the only musician not credited on the cover, and is otherwise almost unknown. The second session was a sextet with J. J. Johnson on trombone and Lucky Thompson on tenor saxophone, the rhythm section was the same for both sessions. The original 10" vinyl release included "I'll Remember April", recorded at the quintet session. When reissued on the 12" format, "Love Me Or Leave Me" was substituted, and "I'll Remember April" can now be found on the album Blue Haze. The album's title track was a staple of Davis's live set for many years. The track entitled Solar is actually not a Davis original - it is in fact by Chuck Wayne who composed the piece under the title of Sonny after Sonny Berman, the lead trumpeter of Woody Herman's band with whom Wayne was working at the time. Davis visited the band and apparently liked the tune that Berman played for him, hence later recording it on this album.

Track listing

Track	Song Title	Originally By	Time
1.	Walkin'	R. Carpenter	13:24
2.	Blue 'n' Boogie	D. Gillespie and F. Paparelli	8:15
3.	Solar	M. Davis and C. Wayne	4:41
4.	You Don't Know What Love Is	D. Raye and G. DePaul	4:20
5.	Love Me or Leave Me	W. Donaldson and G. Kahn	6:54

Performers

Miles Davis - Trumpet
Lucky Thompson - Tenor saxophone (tracks 1, 2)
J. J. Johnson - Trombone (tracks 1, 2)
David Schildkraut - Alto saxophone (tracks 3-5)
Horace Silver - Piano
Percy Heath - Bass
Kenny Clarke - Drums

A studio album is a collection of studio-recorded tracks by a recording artist.

It usually does not contain live recordings or remixes, and if it does, those tracks do not make up a majority of the album and are often called "bonus tracks".
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Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926 – September 28, 1991) was an American jazz musician widely considered to be one of the most influential of the 20th century. A trumpeter, bandleader and composer, Davis was at the forefront of almost every major development in jazz from
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A music genre is a term that describes the process of dividing popular music into categories. Some treat the terms genre and style as the same, and state that genre should be defined as pieces of music that share a certain style or "basic musical language.
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Jazz is an original American musical art form that originated around the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in and around New Orleans.

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Jazz has been called "America's only original art form.
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In the music industry, a record label is a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. In everyday usage, a record label is also a company that manages such brands and trademarks; coordinates the production, manufacture, distribution,
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Prestige Records was a record label founded in 1949 by Bob Weinstock (October 2, 1928–January 14, 2006). The label's name was initially New Jazz, but changing to Prestige Records the next year.
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In the music industry, a record producer (or music producer) has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the musicians, organizing and scheduling production budget and resources, and supervising the recording, mixing and mastering
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The All Music Guide (AMG) is a metadata database about music, owned by All Media Guide. AMG was founded in 1991 by popular-culture archivist Michael Erlewine and mathematician Vladimir Bogdanov, Ph.D., as a guide for consumers. Its first reference book was published the next year.
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Blue Haze is an album recorded in 1953 and 1954 by Miles Davis, for Prestige Records. The first track on the album is from the 3 April 1954 session which resulted in half of the album Walkin' (and was originally included on the 10" vinyl version of that album).
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Bags' Groove is a jazz album recorded by Miles Davis in 1954 for Prestige Records. Both takes of the title track come from a session on December, 24 1954 ("Bags" was vibraphonist Milt Jackson's nickname). The rest of the album was recorded earlier in the year, on 29 June.
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April 3 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.

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1043 - Edward the Confessor is crowned King of England.

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April 29 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.

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1429 - Joan of Arc arrives to relieve the Siege of Orléans.

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David Schildkraut was an alto saxophonist and jazz musician. He played with Miles Davis during the recording sessions for the album Walkin', but is not credited on the albums cover (as are the other musicians on the album) and is otherwise virtually unknown.
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The alto saxophone is a variety of the saxophone, a family of woodwind instruments invented by Adolphe Sax. The alto is the third smallest of the saxophone family, which consists of ten sizes of saxophone (see saxophone).
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J.J. Johnson (born James Louis Johnson) in Indianapolis, Indiana, (January 22, 1924 - February 4, 2001), was a United States jazz trombonist, composer and arranger.
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Eli "Lucky" Thompson (b. June 16 1924, Columbia, South Carolina - d. July 30 2005, Seattle, Washington) was an African American jazz tenor and soprano saxophonist. He is considered, alongside Steve Lacy, to have brought the soprano saxophone out of obsolescence, playing it in a
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The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax. It is perhaps the most well known of all saxophones and is a transposing instrument, pitched in the key of B♭, and written as a transposing instrument in the
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Chuck Wayne (27 February, 1923–29 July, 1997) was a jazz guitarist who came to prominence in the 1940s. He is best known for his work with Woody Herman's First Herd, and for being the first guitarist in the George Shearing quintet.
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Saul "Sonny" Berman (born April 21, 1925 in New Haven, Connecticut; died January 16, 1947 in New York City) was an American bebop jazz trumpeter.

He began touring at age sixteen and went on to work with Louis Prima, Harry James and Benny Goodman but is perhaps best known for
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Woodrow Charles Herman (May 16 1913 – October 29 1987), better known as Woody Herman, was an American jazz clarinetist, alto and soprano saxophonist, singer, and big band leader.
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