Sixty five years ago, on October 26, the Miles Davis Quintet assembled for a recording session that yielded most of the Cookin' and Relaxin' albums and a tune apiece that appeared on the Workin' and Steamin'  discs. The other tracks on those albums were recorded in a one day session earlier that year. Four quality albums, not bad for two days of work.

On this day in 1956, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Red Garland, Paul Chambers, and Philly Joe Jones - the Miles Davis Quintet - went into the Rudy Van Gelder Studio and recorded fourteen tracks to help meet Miles's contractural obligations with Prestige.   Twelve of those tracks would later comprise the better parts of the  Workin'   and   Steamin' With the Miles Davis Quintet  albums, the other two rounded out the   Relaxin'  album. Pretty good for a day's work.