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By the end of the summer, Davis had persuaded Wayne Shorter to leave Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers and join the quintet.

Shorter became the group's principal composer, and some of his compositions of this era ( including " Footprints " and " Nefertiti ") have become standards.

While on tour in Europe, the group quickly made their first official recording, Miles in Berlin ( September 1964 ).

On returning to the United States later that year, ever the musical entrepreneur, Davis ( at Jackie DeShannon's urging ) was instrumental in getting The Byrds signed to Columbia Records.