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Quiet Nights is a studio album by American jazz musician Miles Davis, released on December 16, 1963, by Columbia Records. Recorded mostly at Columbia’s 30th Street Studio in Manhattan, it marked Davis’s fourth and final collaboration with arranger and conductor Gil Evans.

Reception

In the Saturday Review, Quiet Nights received praise for Davis’ “wonderfully songful trumpet in a Latin-American vein”, set against “piercingly lustrous curtains of tone and discreet Caribbean rhythms”.

The New York Times’ Loren Schoenberg later called it “a slightly flawed but worthy companion” to other classic Davis–Evans recordings.

Track listing
All songs arranged and conducted by Gil Evans, except “Summer Night”.

Side one
1. “Song #2” Trad., Gil Evans, Miles Davis 1:40
2. “Once Upon a Summertime” Johnny Mercer, Michel Legrand
Eddie Barclay, Eddy Marnay 3:27
3. “Aos pés da cruz” Marino Pinto, José Gonçalves 4:18
4. “Song No. 1” Francisco Tárrega, Gil Evans, Miles Davis 4:37
Side two
1. “Wait till You See Her” Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart 4:06
2. “Corcovado” Antônio Carlos Jobim 2:45
3. “Summer Night” Harry Warren, Al Dubin 6:04
Sides one and two were combined as tracks 1–7 on CD reissues.
1997 reissue bonus track
8. “The Time of the Barracudas” Gil Evans, Miles Davis 12:45

Personnel
Miles Davis – trumpet
Shorty Baker, Bernie Glow, Louis Mucci, Ernie Royal – trumpets
J.J. Johnson, Frank Rehak – trombones
Ray Alonge, Don Corrado, Julius Watkins – French horns
Bill Barber – tuba
Steve Lacy – soprano saxophone
Albert Block – flute
Ray Beckenstein, Jerome Richardson – woodwinds
Garvin Bushell, Bob Tricarico – bassoons
Janet Putnam – harp
Paul Chambers – bass
Jimmy Cobb – drums
Willie Bobo – bongos
Elvin Jones – percussion

Miles Davis Quintet (“Summer Night”)

Miles Davis – trumpet
George Coleman – tenor saxophone
Victor Feldman – piano
Ron Carter – bass
Frank Butler – drums

Additional musicians (“The Time of the Barracudas”)

Miles Davis – trumpet
Dick Lieb – bass trombone
Bill Hinshaw, Art Maeba, Richard Perissi – French horns
Gene Cipriano, Buddy Collette, Paul Horn – woodwinds
Fred Dutton – bassoon
Marjorie Call – harp
Herbie Hancock – piano
Ron Carter – bass
Tony Williams – drums

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Released: December 16, 1963
Recorded: July 27, 1962–April 17, 1963
Studios:
Columbia 30th Street Studio, New York City
CBS Columbia Square, Hollywood
Length: 26:57
Label: Columbia
Producer Teo Macero