Miles Davis, Volumes 1 & 2 are a pair of separate but related albums by American jazz trumpeter Miles Davis recorded on May 9, 1952, April 20, 1953 and March 6, 1954 and released on Blue Note early 1956.
The three sessions were originally released on ten-inch LPs as Young Man with a Horn (1953), Miles Davis, Vol.
[3] After 10"s lost the format war, Blue Note began reissuing its Modern Jazz Series on 12"s. The three sessions were subsequently recompiled across Miles Davis, Volume 1 (BLP 1501) and Miles Davis, Volume 2 (BLP 1502), the first of Blue Note's 1500 series, their first one hundred 12" records after they discontinued their line of 10" records.
[2] The two volumes were recompiled for their CD reissue, restoring the track listing of the original 10"s, placing Vol.
[citation needed] When Rudy Van Gelder remastered the pair of the 2001 RVG edition, he reused the CD track list and replaced the covers for the two volumes with new covers based on the originals from Miles Davis, Vol.