9.9K views · 241 reactions | On this day in 1956, The #MilesDavisQuintet began recording the album Steamin' With the Miles Davis Quintet (second session in October of the same year). This recording session produced four albums total, including Steamin, Relaxin' with The Miles Davis Quintet, Workin' with The Miles Davis Quintet and Cookin' with the #MilesDavis Quintet. Revisit the album at the link below today. https://found.ee/OJC-Workin | Original Jazz Classics | Facebook

This Week in Texas Music History, a key Billie Holiday and Benny Goodman collaborator gets his start in Central Texas. On November 24, 1912, pianist and composer Teddy Wilson was born in Austin. One of the central figures of jazz in the 1930s and beyond, Wilson played early dates with Louis Armstrong before working with Benny Goodman and Gene Krupa in a band that was one of the first integrated jazz groups to perform publicly in the United States. Wilson’s stylish, delicate approach also led to