Solid, wholly enjoyable albeit inconsequential hard bop with heavy trumpet and some cool jazz leanings? Yep, it's 50's Davis alright. Blue Haze is a pretty swell comp, as expected, but there are a few unexpected draws here. This features an early version of Cookin''s best track "When Lights Are Low" that sounds almost as great, even with different musicians. Opener "I'll Remember April" is wonderful as well, and features some awesome piano solos from Horace Silver. Charles Mingus plays piano on the cool "Smooch", interplaying with Davis' trumpet nicely. It's all extremely solid and easily listenable, and though several of these tracks would be re-recorded with better quality, it's interesting to hear them in earlier, more raw forms. If anything, Blue Haze just further proves the notion that you cannot go wrong with any material from Miles Davis recorded in the 50's.
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