All Blues

Recorded on 22 April 1959, it is a twelve-bar blues in 6/8 in the key of G, with a turnaround on a flat-VI chord. Bill Evans's liner notes described it as a 6/8 12-measure blues form. Take one broke down when Paul Chambers came in late, so take two is the only complete one. Davis told Ralph Gleason that it had grown from a live number over six months, with a workover by Gil Evans. It was the last time Davis and Evans recorded together. At the end of the take Chambers can be heard saying that it was a hard one. The first pressing, about 50,000 copies, had the side-two titles reversed.

Dickey Betts's In Memory of Elizabeth Reed, recorded by the Allman Brothers in 1970, is based on it, and Duane Allman said that kind of playing came from Miles and Coltrane. Davis played a faster live version on the 1964 album My Funny Valentine.