Further to the last couple of posts on Miles Davis, here's "It Could Happen to You" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIDVoXfgA1g) from his 1956 album, Relaxin', one of a series of five masterpieces named for gerunds (Walkin', Cookin', Workin', Steamin' being the others) recorded for Prestige Records between 1954 and 1961. These were made with what has become known as his first great quintet (the second great one came about eight years later): John Coltrane, Red Garland, Paul Chambers and Philly Joe Jones, and they've become central as models for small group jazz among educators and musicians. (By the way, Davis made many other albums for Prestige as well, but with the exception of Miles: The New Miles Davis Quintet from 1956, not with this particular group.) The track linked above is quite representative of their work, and for Miles' as a soloist in particular. His improvisation starts with many references to the melody, but then it slowly moves into the pure, oblique and spacious originality for which he's famous.