SOMEDAY MY PRINCE WILL COME by MILES DAVIS (1961, Columbia)

Overlooked amongst Miles Davis’s albums SOMEDAY MY PRINCE WILL COME is not one of the classics or a big seller. Coming after the the run of ‘Porgy & Bess’, ‘Kind of Blue’ (the biggest selling jazz album of all time) and ‘Sketches of Spain’, it’s been largely forgotten.

Unlike the previous album ‘Sketches’ which featured a big band, SOMEDAY... is Miles leading a small quintet. Like Kind of Blue it features John Coltrane on tenor sax but for the last time as he’d left Mile’s touring band. They play together on the title track and the Davis composition ‘Teo’ (the track is named after the album’s producer Teo Macero)

The album features a mixture of original Davis tunes and pop and jazz standards. The title track was originally a song from Snow White & The Seven Dwarfs but became a Jazz Standard covered by Oscar Peterson, Herbie Hancock, Chet Baker and many others. Here it features Coltrane playing alongside Davis delivering an incredible solo. It also contains the lovely ballads ‘Old Folks’ and ‘I Thought About You’ which has also been covered by the likes of Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald and much later pianist Keith Jarrett. Davis trumpet sounds elegant and seductive.

Incidentally the woman on the cover, is Davis’ beautiful wife Frances.

‘SOMEDAY MY PRINCE WILL COME’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C00IcNvSMnM

‘I THOUGHT ABOUT YOU’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53ygnzCHbbo

‘OLD FOLKS’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuXAUoOqVzw