The material on this particular Miles Davis album is more than sixty years old, yet it remains as a crucial staging post in the history of jazz. Originally recorded in 1954 and initially issued on a couple of 10 albums, tt features a mix of quintet and sextet material, recorded during his spell with Prestige Records and produced by Bob Weinstock. The various tracks were gathered together, along with a previously unreleased track, and issued as a 12 album in 1957. The end result is an important album in the development of bop music, a genre Miles Davis practically owned.