Quiet Nights

Infobox Album
Name = Quiet Nights
Type = studio
Artist = Miles Davis/Gil Evans


Released = 1963
Recorded = July 27, 1962 - April 17, 1963
Genre = Jazz
Bossa Nova
Length = 39:45 (reissue)
Label = Columbia Records
Producer = Teo Macero
Reviews =
Last album = "Someday My Prince Will Come"
(1961)
This album = "Quiet Nights"
(1963)
Next album = "Seven Steps to Heaven"
(1963)

"Quiet Nights" is an album recorded in 1962 and 1963 by Miles Davis and Gil Evans. The first six tunes were recorded in 1962 with an orchestra conducted by Evans, and "Summer Night" was recorded in 1963 by Davis with a short-lived quintet (George Coleman, Victor Feldman, Ron Carter and Frank Butler), during the sessions for the album "Seven Steps to Heaven", although Coleman lays out on this number. Davis regarded the 27-minute album of bossa-nova songs as an unfinished project, and its release against Davis's wishes caused a lengthy breach with producer Teo Macero.

Track listing

# "Song No. 2" (aka prenda minha, folcklore RS/Brasil)
# "Once upon a Summertime" (Johnny Mercer, Michel Legrand, Eddie Marnay, Eddie Barclay)
# "Aos Pes Da Cruz" (Marino Pinto, Zé da Zilda, João Gilberto)
# "Song No. 1" (Evans, Davis)
# "Wait Till You See Her" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart)
# "Corcovado (Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars)" (Antonio Carlos Jobim)
# "Summer Night" (Al Dubin, Harry Warren)

CD reissue includes "The Time of the Barracudas", music recorded in 1963 to accompany a play of the same name by Peter Barnes. This features another orchestra conducted by Evans, and the rhythm section of the Davis 60's quintet (Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter and Tony Williams).