Miles Davis
Trumpet Solo on
Love Me or Leave Me

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Miles Davis's trumpet solo is the first of four solos on this recording. Spanning two choruses of the 32-bar AABA form in A♭ at a blazing 282 BPM with a swing feel, the session, which also produced the epochal title track, documents Davis assembling the kind of all-star group that would become characteristic of his approach throughout the 1950s, surrounding himself with musicians whose individual strengths complemented and challenged his own. Miles Davis was 27 to 28 years old at the time of this recording.

Miles Davis was 27 to 28 years old at the time.