Collectors' Items is a 1956 studio album by Miles Davis

Miles Davis

Miles Dewey Davis III was an American jazz musician, trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. Widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Miles Davis was, with his musical groups, at the forefront of several major developments in jazz music, including bebop, cool jazz,...

. There are two sessions collected on the album with, apart from Davis, largely different musicians. The first 1953 session is "Compulsion", "The Serpent's Tooth" (two takes) and "'Round About Midnight". The second 1956 session is "In Your Own Sweet Way", "Vierd Blues" and "No Line". The personnel for the first session were Davis, Sonny Rollins

Sonny Rollins

Theodore Walter "Sonny" Rollins is a Grammy-winning American jazz tenor saxophonist. Rollins is widely recognized as one of the most important and influential jazz musicians. A number of his compositions, including "St...

 and Charlie Parker

Charlie Parker

Charles Parker, Jr. , famously called Bird or Yardbird, was an American jazz saxophonist and composer....

 (credited under the nom de plume "Charlie Chan" due to his contractual obligations to a rival label) on tenor saxes, Walter Bishop

Walter Bishop

Walter Bishop may refer to:*Walter Bishop, Sr. , Jamaican composer and songwriter*Walter Bishop, Jr. , American bop and hard bop jazz pianist, son of the above*Dr. Walter Bishop , character in the television show Fringe...

 on piano, Percy Heath

Percy Heath

Percy Heath was an American jazz bassist, brother to tenor saxophonist Jimmy Heath and drummer Albert Heath, with whom he formed the Heath Brothers in 1975...

 on bass and Philly Joe Jones

Philly Joe Jones

Joseph Rudolph Jones was a Philadelphia-born United States jazz drummer, known as the drummer for the Miles Davis Quintet.Philly Joe Jones was often confused with another influential jazz drummer, Jo Jones...

 on drums. For the second session, the tenor sax was Rollins alone, the piano was Tommy Flanagan

Tommy Flanagan

Thomas Lee Flanagan was an American jazz pianist born in Detroit, Michigan, particularly remembered for his work with Ella Fitzgerald...

, the bass Paul Chambers

Paul Chambers

Paul Laurence Dunbar Chambers, Jr. was a jazz bassist. A fixture of rhythm sections during the 1950s and 1960s, his importance in the development of jazz bass can be measured not only by the length and breadth of his work in this short period but also his impeccable time, intonation, and virtuosic...

 and Art Taylor

Art Taylor

Arthur S. Taylor, Jr. was an American jazz drummer of the hard bop school.After playing in the bands of Howard McGhee, Coleman Hawkins, Buddy DeFranco, Bud Powell, and George Wallington from 1948 to 1957, he formed his own group, the Wailers...

 on drums.

According to the sleeve notes by Ira Gitler

Ira Gitler

Ira Gitler is an American jazz historian and journalist. Perhaps best known for The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz written with Leonard Feather—the most recent edition appeared in 1999—he has written hundreds of liner notes for jazz recordings since the early 1950s and is the author of dozens...

, the 1953 session was only the second time Parker had recorded on a tenor sax. According to the CD edition's liner notes, that session was the only time Parker and Rollins recorded together.

Parker was also billed as "Charlie Chan" on the 1953 album Jazz at Massey Hall

Jazz at Massey Hall

Jazz at Massey Hall is a live jazz album featuring a performance by "The Quintet" given on 15 May 1953 at Massey Hall in Toronto. The quintet was composed of several leading 'modern' players of the day: Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Bud Powell, Charles Mingus, and Max Roach...

.

Track listing

Original LP

1. "Serpent's Tooth [Take 1]" - 7:08
2. "Serpent's Tooth [Take 2]" - 6:24
3. "'Round Midnight" - 7:12
4. "Compulsion" - 5:53
5. "No Line" - 5:48
6. "Vierd Blues" - 7:00
7. "In Your Own Sweet Way" - 4:40

Additional tracks included on Prestige 24022:

1. "Conception"
2. "Nature Boy"
3. "There's No You"
4. "Easy Living"
5. "Alone Together"

"Conception" recorded October 5, 1952 (first released on Prestige 7013

Conception (album)

Conception is a compilation album issued in 1951 as PRLP 7013, featuring Miles Davis on a number of tracks. The album features other notable musicians such as Lee Konitz, Sonny Rollins, Stan Getz, Gerry Mulligan and Zoot Sims. All the pieces were recorded at the famous Van Gelder Studio...

), with Miles Davis (trumpet), Sonny Rollins (tenor sax), Walter Bishop (piano), Tommy Potter (bass), Art Blakey (drums); the remainder recorded in 1955 for Debut Records (originally released as the album Blue Moods

Blue Moods

Blue Moods is 1955 album by Miles Davis. It brings Miles Davis together with Charles Mingus, accompanied by Elvin Jones on drums. The arrangement of "Alone Together" was by Charles Mingus, while the other tracks were arranged by Teddy Charles....

), with Miles Davis (trumpet), Britt Woodman (trombone), Charles Mingus (bass), Teddy Charles (vibes), Elvin Jones (drums).

January 30, 1953 session

• Miles Davis – Trumpet
• Sonny Rollins – Tenor Saxophone
• Charlie Parker ("Charlie Chan") – Tenor Saxophone
• Walter Bishop – Piano
• Percy Heath – Bass
• Philly Joe Jones – Drums

March 16, 1956 session

• Miles Davis – Trumpet
• Sonny Rollins – Tenor Saxophone
• Tommy Flanagan – Piano
• Paul Chambers – Bass
• Art Taylor – Drums