Chronicle: The Complete Prestige Recordings (1951–1956)

Compilation by Miles Davis

Released 1980

jazz hard bop

Tracklist

CD 1
1
Morpheus
2:24
2
Down
2:54
3
Blue Room (take 1)
2:51
4
Blue Room (take 2)
3:03
5
Whispering
3:02
6
I Know
2:33
7
Odjenar
2:53
8
Ezz‐Thetic
2:54
9
Hibeck
3:07
10
Yesterdays
2:27
11
Conception
4:03
12
Out of the Blue
6:16
13
Denial
5:41
14
Bluing
9:56
15
Dig
7:35
16
My Old Flame
6:36
17
It’s Only a Paper Moon
5:25
CD 2
1
Compulsion
5:45
2
The Serpent’s Tooth (take 1)
7:01
3
The Serpent’s Tooth (take 2)
6:17
4
’Round About Midnight
7:05
5
Tasty Pudding
3:21
6
Willie the Wailer
4:26
7
Floppy
6:01
8
For Adults Only
5:34
9
When Lights Are Low
3:26
10
Tune Up
3:53
11
Miles Ahead
4:28
12
Smooch
3:05
13
Four
4:01
4.0 ★
14
Old Devil Moon
3:22
4.0 ★
15
Blue Haze
6:06
CD 3
1
Solar
4:44
2
You Don’t Know What Love Is
4:23
3
Love Me or Leave Me
6:58
4
I’ll Remember April
7:54
5.0 ★
5
Blue ’n’ Boogie
8:18
6
Walkin’
13:27
4.0 ★
7
Airegin
5:00
8
Oleo
5:12
9
But Not for Me (take 1)
5:45
10
But Not for Me (take 2)
4:37
11
Doxy
4:51
4.0 ★
CD 4
1
Bags’ Groove (take 1)
11:15
2
Bags’ Groove (take 2)
9:26
3
Bemsha Swing
9:33
4
Swing Spring
10:48
5
The Man I Love (take 1)
8:09
6
The Man I Love (take 2)
8:00
7
I Didn’t
6:06
8
Will You Still Be Mine?
6:19
CD 5
1
Green Haze
5:50
4.0 ★
2
I See Your Face Before Me
4:45
3
A Night in Tunisia
7:23
4
A Gal in Calico
5:16
5
Dr. Jackle
8:53
6
Bitty Ditty
6:37
7
Minor March
8:17
8
Changes
7:13
3.0 ★
9
In Your Own Sweet Way
4:38
4.0 ★
10
No Line
5:42
11
Vierd Blues
6:51
4.0 ★
CD 6
1
Stablemates
5:21
2
How Am I to Know?
4:40
3
Just Squeeze Me
7:27
4
There Is No Greater Love
5:19
5
The Theme
5:50
6
S’posin’
5:15
7
In Your Own Sweet Way
5:45
1.0 ★
8
Diane
7:49
9
Trane’s Blues
8:29
10
Something I Dreamed Last Night
6:12
CD 7
1
It Could Happen to You
6:40
2
Woodyn’ You
5:05
3
Ahmad’s Blues
7:23
4
Surrey With the Fringe on Top
9:06
5
It Never Entered My Mind
5:24
6
When I Fall in Love
4:24
2.0 ★
7
Salt Peanuts
6:09
8
Four
7:14
9
The Theme (take 1)
2:00
10
The Theme (take 2)
1:06
11
If I Were a Bell
8:09
3.0 ★
12
Well, You Needn’t
6:16
CD 8
1
’Round About Midnight
5:21
4.0 ★
2
Half Nelson
4:47
3
You’re My Everything
4:49
4
I Could Write a Book
5:11
5
Oleo
5:54
6
Airegin
4:27
7
Tune Up
5:44
8
When Lights Are Low
7:32
9
Blues by Five
10:01
4.0 ★
10
My Funny Valentine
6:00

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Release credits

Al Cohn
arranger [5], tenor saxophone [5-8]
Arnold Fishkind
bass [9-10], double bass [10]
Art Blakey
drums (drum set) [1.11-17, 2.13-15]
Art Taylor
drums (drum set) [5-11]
Bennie Green
trombone [1-2, 5]
Bernie Green
trombone [1-2]
Billy Bauer
guitar [9-10]
Bob Weinstock
producer [6.8, 6.10, 7.3-4, 7.6-7, 7.12, 1.11-17, 8.6-10], task [1.6, 4.7-8, 5.1-4]
Charles Mingus
double bass [11], piano [12]
Charlie Parker
tenor saxophone [1-4]
Davey Schildkraut
alto saxophone [1, 3-4]
Horace Silver
piano [3.1-11, 2.13-15]
Ira Gitler
producer [4, 11]
J.J. Johnson
trombone [5-6]
Jackie McLean
alto saxophone [5.5-8, 1.12-16]
John Coltrane
tenor saxophone [6.1-3, 6.5-10, 8.1-9, 7.1-12]
John Lewis
piano [1.1-6, 2.5-11, 2.13-14]
Kenny Clarke
drums (drum set) [3.1-11, 4.1-4, 4.6, 2.5-8, 1.6]
Lee Konitz
alto saxophone [9-10]
Leonard Gaskin
double bass [5-6, 6-7, 7-8, 8]
Lucky Thompson
tenor saxophone [5-6]
Max Roach
drums (drum set) [1.9-10, 2.9-12]
Miles Davis
piano [6], trumpet [5.1-11, 1.1-5, 1.9-17, 3.1-11, 2.1-15, 4.1-4, 4.6-8, 6.1-10, 7.1-12, 8.1-10]
Miles Davis Sextet
performer [5-6]
Milt Jackson
vibraphone [5.5-8, 1.6, 4.1-4, 4.6]
Oscar Pettiford
double bass [5.1-4, 4.7-8]
Paul Chambers
bass [5.9-11, 7.3], double bass [6.1-10, 7.1-12, 8.1-10]
Percy Heath
bass [4.3, 4.6, 1.4-6, 3.4, 2.1-3, 2.13-15], double bass [2.1, 2.4, 2.9-15, 3.1-11, 5.5-6, 5.6-8, 4.1-4, 4.6, 1.1, 1.1-3, 1.5, 1.5-6]
Philly Joe Jones
drums (drum set) [6.1-10, 8.1-10, 4.7-8, 5.1-4, 7.1-12, 2.1-4]
Ray Bryant
piano [5-8]
Red Garland
piano [7.1-12, 8.1-10, 4.7-8, 6.1-10, 5.1-4]
Roy Haynes
drums (drum set) [1-6, 6]
Rudy van Gelder
recording [6.1-6, 2.1-4, 5.1-11, 3.1-11, 1.12-15, 1.17, 7.3, 8.6-10, 4.7-8]
Sal Mosca
piano [9-10]
Sonny Rollins
alto saxophone [13], tenor saxophone [1.1-3, 1.5-6, 1.6, 1.11-17, 5.9-11, 2.1-4, 3.7-11]
Sonny Truitt
trombone [5-8]
Thelonious Monk
piano [1-4, 6]
Tommy Flanagan
piano [9-11]
Tommy Potter
bass [13], double bass [11-17]
Walter Bishop, Jr.
piano [2.1-4, 1.11-17]
Zoot Sims
tenor saxophone [5-8]

Issues

C
Chronicle: The Complete Prestige Recordings
12x 12" Vinyl
1980
C
Chronicle: The Complete Prestige Recordings (1951–1956)
8x CD
1987