Down At Dawn

The ideal meeting between jazz and the spiritual, from the dark, smoky atmospheres of the Devil's music to the luminous sound of the African-American Church.

A fine session run by the great pianist and composer Tadd Dameron recorded in 1956 featuring the young lion John Coltrane who was fresh off playing with Miles.

This 1956 album—recorded by the late Rudy Van Gelder—offered a synthesis of Miles's thinking, crystallizing one of the high points of the bop revolution.