On This Day in Jazz History

August 18, 1958: Trumpeter Miles Davis records Gil Evans' arrangements of "Porgy and Bess."

Added: 2008-07-08

More facts on this day:

1920
Drummer Don Lamond born in Oklahoma City, OK.

1933
Fletcher Henderson's band records Coleman Hawkins' "Queer Notions."

1958
Trumpeter Miles Davis records Gil Evans' arrangements of "Porgy and Bess."

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