Miles Davis Quintet • Complete Café Bohemia Bandstand U.S.A. 1956-58 Radio Broadcasts • Volume 1 — ArchiveOne CD™

ArchiveOne CD™ — an individually produced edition

Miles Davis Quintet with John Coltrane
Red Garland • Paul Chambers • Philly Joe Jones

Limited edition of 100 copies • CD Digipack

ArchiveOne CD™ treats the CD as an autonomous record edition built around the music, the source and the historical document. Each copy is made one-to-one, real-time, from the approved master source, following the principle ONE-TO-ONE REAL-TIME AUDIOPHILE TRANSFER.

This is therefore not the normal industrial replication of a CD in series: the ArchiveOne CD™ process provides for the individual production of each copy within a dedicated editorial project. For Complete Café Bohemia – Bandstand U.S.A. 1956–58 Radio Broadcasts • Volume 1, this brings the one-to-one transfer together with historical research, source reconstruction, speed correction and remastering.

The original radio announcements and voice-overs are retained as an integral part of the document. The project preserves the identity of the first volume devoted to the Miles Davis Quintet at Café Bohemia and develops it as a specific ArchiveOne CD™ edition, with dedicated artwork and Digipack packaging and a total limited run of 100 copies.

Edition

• Format: ArchiveOne CD™ / CD Digipack
• Production: one-to-one real-time audiophile transfer
• Limited edition: 100 copies
• Label: GRooVE back Records
• Catalogue / SKU: GBR00126
• Barcode: 688116909808
• Origin: Made in EU
• ℗ & © 2026 GRooVE back Records

Miles Davis at Café Bohemia

This first volume in the Complete Café Bohemia – Bandstand U.S.A. 1956–58 Radio Broadcasts series documents the Miles Davis Quintet with John Coltrane, Red Garland, Paul Chambers and Philly Joe Jones.

The recordings come from Mutual Network broadcasts made at Café Bohemia in Greenwich Village, New York. The series also preserves Guy Wallace’s original radio announcements and voice-overs, which are an integral part of the historical document.

The editorial and audio work was built from the best available sources, with source reconstruction, speed correction and remastering. The production reference for this edition is the approved master source finalized for ArchiveOne CD™.

Personnel

• Miles Davis — trumpet
• John Coltrane — tenor saxophone
• Red Garland — piano
• Paul Chambers — bass
• Philly Joe Jones — drums
• Guy Wallace — radio broadcast announcer

Tracklist

September 15, 1956

1. Announcement by Guy Wallace — 2:01
2. Well You Needn’t — 5:48
3. It Never Entered My Mind — 5:02

September 29, 1956

4. A Gal in Calico — 4:43
5. Stablemates — 3:48
6. How Am I to Know? — 3:03

April 13, 1957

7. The Theme — 1:34
8. Woody’n You — 3:58
9. Walkin’ [Gravy] — 7:10
10. All of You — 2:25

Restoration, source reconstruction and remastering

The surviving mono transcriptions of these recordings were not always in optimal condition. To present the complete performances, the best available sources were used, taking into account differences introduced by the various technical teams, microphone techniques and recording configurations used over a three-year period.

The work includes historical research, source reconstruction, speed correction & remastering, while retaining the original radio announcements and voice-overs.

Credits

Project Curation / Executive Production
Massimo Corvino — GRooVE back Records

Historical Research, Source Reconstruction, Speed Correction & Remastering
Enrico Merlin

Final Audio Supervision
Marco Lincetto — Velut Luna

Liner Notes
Enrico Merlin

Research Assistance
Giovanni Principe · Ginger Minneman

Cover Photograph
Marvin Koner
Photographed outside Café Bohemia, New York, between May 25 and June 10, 1956

Historical & Discographical Acknowledgements
Bob Belden · Jan Lohmann · Peter Losin · Teo Macero

Also available

Volume 1 — black-vinyl 33 rpm LP

Volume 1 bundle — 33 rpm LP + ArchiveOne CD™

Volume 1 + Volume 2 LP bundle

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