1958 - Porgy And Bess (1997 Reissue) @ 320

Porgy and Bess is a 1958 album by jazz musician Miles Davis which he and Gil Evans arranged from George Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess. The album was recorded in four sessions on July 22, July 29, August 4 and August 18, 1958 at Columbia's 30th Street Studio in New York City. It is the second collaboration between Davis and Evans and has garnered much critical acclaim since its release, being acknowledged by music critics as the best of their collaborations. For many jazz critics, this recording is regarded as historic.
Tracks:
All compositions by George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin and DuBose Heyward, except otherwise noted.
Side one
1. The Buzzard Song 4:07
2. Bess, You Is My Woman Now 5:10
3. Gone 3:37
4. Gone, Gone, Gone 2:03
5. Summertime 3:17
6. Prayer (Oh Doctor Jesus) 4:18
Side two
1. Prayer (Oh Doctor Jesus) 4:39
2. Fisherman, Strawberry and Devil Crab 4:06
3. My Man's Gone Now 6:14
4. It Ain't Necessarily So 4:23
5. Here Come De Honey Man 1:18
6. I Wants to Stay Here (a.k.a. I Loves You, Porgy) 3:39
7. There's a Boat That's Leaving Soon for New York 3:23
1997 Reissue bonus tracks
1. I Loves You, Porgy (take 1, second version) 4:14
2. Gone (take 4) 3:40
Personnel
Miles Davis - trumpet, flugelhorn
Ernie Royal, Bernie Glow, Johnny Coles and Louis Mucci - trumpet
Dick Hixon, Frank Rehak, Jimmy Cleveland and Joe Bennett - trombone
Willie Ruff, Julius Watkins and Gunther Schuller - horn
Bill Barber - tuba
Phil Bodner, Jerome Richardson and Romeo Penque - flute, alto flute & clarinet
Cannonball Adderley - alto saxophone
Danny Bank - alto flute & bass clarinet
Paul Chambers - bass
Jimmy Cobb - drums (except tracks 3,4, 9, & 15)
Philly Joe Jones - drums (tracks 3,4, 9, & 15)
Gil Evans - arranger & conductor
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1959 - Kind of Blue (1997 Reissue) @ 320

Kind of Blue is a jazz album by musician Miles Davis, released August 17, 1959, on Columbia Records, in both mono and stereo, CL1355 and CS8163. Recording sessions took place at Columbia's 30th Street Studio in March and April of 1959. As of January 16, 2002, it has been certified triple platinum in sales by the Recording Industry Association of America. Though precise figures have been disputed, Kind of Blue has been cited as Davis' best-selling album, and as the best-selling jazz record of all time. It is also regarded by many as the greatest jazz album of all time and ranks at or near the top of many "best album" lists in disparate genres. In 2002, it was one of 50 recordings chosen that year by the Library of Congress to be added to the National Recording Registry. In 2003, the album was ranked number 12 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
Track listing
Only six full takes of the five tunes on the album exist, indicated by the song numbers.
Side one
1. So What 9:22
2. Freddie Freeloader 9:46
3. Blue in Green 5:37
Side two
1. All Blues 11:33
2. Flamenco Sketches 9:26
1997 reissue bonus track
1. Flamenco Sketches 9:32
Personnel
Miles Davis – trumpet, leader
Julian "Cannonball" Adderley – alto saxophone, does not play on "Blue in Green"
John Coltrane – tenor saxophone
Wynton Kelly – piano, only on "Freddie Freeloader"
Bill Evans – piano on all except "Freddie Freeloader," liner notes
Paul Chambers – bass
Jimmy Cobb – drums
Additional personnel
Irving Townsend – original recording producer
Fred Plaut – recording engineer
Michael Cuscuna – reissue producer
Mark Wilder – remix engineer
Gil Evans - arranger
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1960 - Sketches of Spain @ 320

Sketches of Spain is an album by Miles Davis, recorded between November 1959 and March 1960. The album pairs Davis with arranger and composer Gil Evans, with whom he had collaborated on several other projects, on a program of compositions largely derived from the Spanish folk tradition. (An extended version of the second movement of Joaquin Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez is also included, as well as a song called "Will o' the Wisp", from the ballet El amor brujo by Manuel de Falla.)
Track listing
"Concierto de Aranjuez" (Adagio) (Joaquín Rodrigo) –16:19
"Will o' the Wisp" (Manuel de Falla) –3:47
"The Pan Piper" (Gil Evans) –3:52
"Saeta" (Evans) –5:06
"Solea" (Evans) –12:15
Personnel
In alphabetical order
Danny Bank — bass clarinet
Bill Barber — tuba
John Barrows — French horn
Albert Block — flute
James Buffington — French horn
Eddie Caine — flute, flugelhorn
Paul Chambers — bass
Earl Chapin — French horn
Jimmy Cobb — drums
Johnny Coles — trumpet
Miles Davis — trumpet, flugelhorn
Gil Evans — arranger, conductor
Harold Feldman — clarinet, flute, oboe
Bernie Glow — trumpet
Dick Hixon — trombone
Elvin Jones — percussion
Taft Jordan — trumpet
Jack Knitzer — bassoon
Jose Mangual — percussion
Jimmy McAllister — tuba
Tony Miranda — French horn
Louis Mucci — trumpet
Romeo Penque — oboe
Janet Putnam — harp
Frank Rehak — trombone
Ernie Royal — trumpet
Joe Singer — French horn
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1960 - Olympia, 11th October 1960 @ 320

If you like old Miles Davis, buy this concert before it goes out of print (most do). It's expensive, but i'm so glad I own this show... Here it is: Line-up; Miles, Stitt, Chambers, Cobb, W. Kelly. Songs; Walkin', All of You, So What, The Theme. These cd's are simply wonderful copies of the original concerts! No editing, no changing the song orders, it is as if you were there!
Track Listing:
CD 01:
1. All Of You 17:06
2. So What 13:26
3. On Green Dolphin Street 14:40
CD 02:
1. Walkin' / B 15:53
2. Bye Bye Blackbird 13:58
3. Round About Midnight 5:37
4. Oleo 4:23
5. The Theme 0:49
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1961 - Miles Davis at Carnegie Hall @ 320

This was a great and underrated Davis ensemble. The fact that they were playing some of the innovative pieces of the Gil Evans/Davis era with full orchestral accompaniment and in a live setting (and with acoustics of Carnegie Hall no less) should have made for a mounumental recording. As a historic document, it's a must-have: the playing is without reservation, first rate. But then, the sound. Even with remastering, you can't fix mike overload, and it is there often, and most specifically on Miles' principal mike of all places. At best the high dyanmics make for a rough sound, almost frayed and thready in its texture. Anyone used to listening to overmiked recordings, especially live ones from the 30's and 40's can deal with this, and enjoy it, if you like a rough, electric timbre to your trumpet sound. But at worst it's just full-blown distortion, distracting and disappointing and would have been so if any other instrument or player was playing in any other venue, whether Carnegie Hall or your cousin's wedding reception at the Elks Club. And this after all, IS Miles Davis, and this IS Carnegie Hall. Me, I can live with the sonic shortcomings; the performace, the occasion, and the lineup are all too important not to. But it's really a shame; this could have been, all around, one of the finest recordings, live or in studio, of Miles' career. As it is-- well, I have it playing now. So there you go.
Track Listings:
CD 01:
1. So What 12:02
2. Spring Is Here 4:03
3. Teo 9:11
4. Walkin' 9:32
5. The Meaning of the Blues/Lament 4:34
6. New Rhumba 4:07
CD 02:
1. Someday My Prince Will Come 2:55
2. Oleo 7:19
3. No Blues 10:38
4. I Thought About You 5:00
5. En Aranjuez Con Tu Amor 17:05
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1963 - Miles Davis In Europe @ 320

Recorded live in France at the Festival Mondial, du Jazz Antibes, Miles Davis in Europe captures trumpeter Miles Davis in late 1963. While Four & More and My Funny Valentine -- both taken from the same 1964 New York Philharmonic Hall concert -- are most often cited as this lineup's essential live recording, Miles Davis in Europe is a no less exciting listen. The band, including tenor saxophonist George Coleman, pianist Herbie Hancock, bassist Ron Carter, and drummer Tony Williams, had recorded Seven Steps to Heaven a few months earlier, which would turn out to be the one studio album Davis would make with the lineup. Already, the band's adventurous, avant-garde leanings are on display with the young Williams propelling Davis to scorching heights on the fast swinger "Milestones." Similarly, Hancock helps turn the standard "I Thought About You" into an impressionistic and free-flowing ballad allowing Davis to spread wide swaths of tonal color and deep note bends across the stage. Although Coleman would depart the group in less than a year, he proves himself here to be a muscular, keen improviser who deserved more attention than he got at the time.
Personnel:
Ron Carter (Bass)
George Coleman (Sax (Tenor)
Miles Davis (Trumpet)
Herbie Hancock (Piano)
Tony Ruption Williams (Drums)
Tracks:
1. Introduction (by Andre Francis) 0:47
2. Autumn Leaves 13:52
3. Milestones 9:17
4. I Thought About You 11:44
5. Joshua 11:27
6. All Of You 16:49
7. Walkin' 16:15
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1963 - Seven Steps To Heaven (Reissue) @ 320

Seven Steps to Heaven is an album recorded in 1963 by Miles Davis. On the 16th and 17th of April, a quintet comprising Davis, George Coleman, Victor Feldman, Ron Carter and Frank Butler recorded all six tunes plus "Summer Night", for an album to be titled So Near, So Far. A month later, Davis re-recorded three of the tunes (tracks 2, 4 & 6) with a new quintet, replacing Feldman with Herbie Hancock and Butler with Tony Williams. The new rhythm section of Hancock, Carter and Williams would form the nucleus of Davis's working band for the next five years. This is the last of Davis's studio albums which relies substantially on standard tunes - once Wayne Shorter joined the quintet in 1964, tunes on studio recordings were almost always composed by members of the group.
Performers
Miles Davis - Trumpet
George Coleman - Tenor Saxophone
Victor Feldman - Piano (April session)
Herbie Hancock - Piano (May session)
Ron Carter - Double bass
Frank Butler - Drums (April session)
Tony Williams - Drums (May session)
Track listing
1. Basin Street Blues 10:30
2. Seven Steps to Heaven 6:26
3. I Fall in Love Too Easily 6:46
4. So Near, So Far 6:59
5. Baby, Won't You Please Come Home? 8:28
6. Joshua 7:00
Bonus Tracks:
7. So Near, So Far (Alternate Take) 5:12
8. Sumer Night 6:02
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1954 - Blue Haze @ 320
Blue Haze is an album recorded in 1953 and 1954 by Miles Davis, for Prestige Records. The first track on the album is from the 3 April 1954 session which resulted in half of the album Walkin' (and was originally included on the 10" vinyl version of that album). The remainder is the result of two sessions on 19 May 1953 and 15 March 1954, the first being a quintet with John Lewis, Charles Mingus (on piano, not bass), Percy Heath and Max Roach, and the second a quartet with Horace Silver, Heath, and Art Blakey. Tracks 2 and 7 are wrongly credited as Davis compositions - they are both in fact by Eddie Vinson. However, Vinson supposedly wrote these tunes for Davis, and this is probably how the confusion has occurred.
Tracks:
1. I'll Remember April 7:52 2. Four 4:00 3. Old Devil Moon 3:22 4. Smooch 3:04 5. Blue Haze 6:08 6. When Lights Are Low 3:25 7. Tune Up 3:52 8. Miles Ahead 4:28
Personnel
"Smooch", "When Lights are Low", "Tune Up", "Miles Ahead" (19 May 1953):
Miles Davis - Trumpet John Lewis - Piano (not on "Smooch") Charles Mingus - Piano ("Smooch" only) Percy Heath - Bass Max Roach - Drums
"Four", "Old Devil Moon", "Blue Haze" (15 March 1954):
Miles Davis - Trumpet Horace Silver - Piano Percy Heath - Bass Art Blakey - Drums
"I'll Remember April" (3 April 1954):
Miles Davis - Trumpet David Schildkraut - Alto saxophone Horace Silver - Piano Percy Heath - Bass Kenny Clarke - Drums
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1964 - Miles in Berlin @ 320

Miles in Berlin is an album recorded on September 25, 1964 by the Miles Davis Quintet at the Berlin Philharmonie, Berlin, Germany. It was released in the United States on Compact Disc in 2005 and marks the first recorded work of what is commonly known as Miles Davis' Second Great Quintet.
Track listing
"Milestones" (Miles Davis) – 8:58
"Autumn Leaves" (J. Kozma, J. Mercer, J. Prevert) – 12:38
"So What" (Miles Davis) – 10:27
"Stella By Starlight" (V. Young, N. Washington) – 12:54
"Walkin'" (R. Carpenter) – 10:40
"Go-Go (Theme and Announcement)" (Miles Davis) – 1:46
Personnel
Miles Davis – trumpet
Wayne Shorter – tenor saxophone
Herbie Hancock – piano
Ron Carter – bass
Tony Williams – drums
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