In fact, he was furious that Columbia Records and producer Teo Macero patched enough music together to release a brief album of what Miles considered an inferior rough draft of stuff from the cutting room floor.
Miles was also looking for Someone to replace Hank Mobley as the tenor man in the group, Mobley replaced Coltrane in the working band.
Hank did not bring enough revolutionary ideas to the band to satisfy Miles.
Hank is a fine hard bop player, probably one of the most underrated of all time. In fact, his Blue Note releases are really quite remarkable the high quality... but I must concede he never did fit in with Miles for some reason.
Other than a few tracks on 1968's Files de Kilimanjaro, Quiet Nights would be the last time Gil and Miles would work together, or at least lay anything to tape anyway.
Gil went on to form his own large orchestra, his impulse album Out of the Cool, is a spectacular album on Impulse that every jazz collector must own.
Gil recorded many fine albums throughout 60's, 70's, and 80's. Many of Gil's Albums fused rock and funk elements.
One of the more unusual albums is the RCA Label issue, Plays the Music of Jimi Hendrix, this is an album that actually has a version of "Voodoo Chile" (Slight Return) where Howard Johnson Plays the intro on tuba! Yes a tuba, and it is quite remarkable how well he pulls it off. Quiet Nights may be uneven, but still pretty good to my ears.
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