Two factors in his professional life were lacking and prevented him from reaching his goals – a bigger, nationwide record label, and a stable working band of excellent musicians. He was ready to move on to the next stage of his career, gain wider recognition and prestige than what his current label (Prestige, ironically) could give him and no less important – make more money. The quality of his 1954 studio output for Prestige exceeded most of his early 1950s recordings and yielded some of the best records in his career thus far: Walkin’, Bag’s Groove and Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants. His tone on the trumpet improved and so his ability to lead groups of musicians at recording sessions and in clubs. After kicking his heroin habit at his father’s house in 1953, he came back to New York City a more complete musician. In the first half of 1955 Miles Davis was in a much better shape than he was in a long time.
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