Walkin'
First recording and first release by Miles Davis All Star Sextet (April 29, 1954 / 1954)
- Music written by
- Richard Carpenter [jazz]
- ISWC
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T-070.247.646-7 BMI, ISWC
- Tags
- disputed credits
- Comments
- Written by Davis, the composition royalties for "Walkin'" were credited to his friend Richard Carpenter. Not a performing musician himself, Carpenter took the simple outline from the 1950 single "Gravy" by Gene Ammons, and structured a blues number around it as "Walkin'"; Miles Davis first recorded the arrangement in 1952 as "Weirdo" for Blue Note, crediting himself as composer, but decided to re-record the tune for Prestige on April 29, 1954, with Carpenter now receiving composer credit.
- Licensing
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