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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