Trumpet
SKU:
M7.AHW-308
Composed
by Miles Davis. Arranged
by David Berger. Sheet
music. Performance book.
35 pages. Charles Colin
Corp. #AHW 308. Published
by Charles Colin Corp.
(M7.AHW-308).
As recounted by
our dad, Charles Colin,
he was first introduced
to Miles in the mid '50's
by Charlie Parker. Pop
had already published
Charlie Parker's,
'Yardbird Originals'
under our other
publishing company, 'New
Sounds in Modern Music'.
Miles had been away for a
period and, now that he
was back on the scene,
Parker thought it would
be worthwhile for Miles
to meet his new
publisher, with the hope
of working out a similar
arrangement. Parker
brought Miles to the
office, then on 48th
Street to meet Pop. Pop
was very happy to give it
a go, whereupon he gave
Miles a trumpet, a
mouthpiece and tape
recorder and asked him to
lay down solos over some
standard tunes. The
original transcriptions
which, I believe were
done by Hank Edmonds,
were given the 'cool'
knick-names, Miles Away,
Miles Cools Off, etc.
rather than the names of
actual standards. So,
here we are decades
later, and have decided
to ask renowned arranger,
David Berger, to identify
the tunes and clarify
some of the chord changes
- for posterity!
