Miles Davis
' final official collaboration with arranger
Gil Evans
resulted in their weakest project. There were only 27 minutes of music on the original
Quiet Nights
LP, and six minutes were taken up by a quintet performance of
"Summer Night."
The six remaining tracks are enjoyable enough (highlighted by
"Once Upon a Summertime"
and
"Corcovado"
), but rather brief, making one wonder why
Evans
could not have been persuaded to write more material. ~ Scott Yanow