The Essential Collection – 1953–55 Sessions

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  When Lights Are Low
  3:24
• 2
  Tune Up
  3:51
• 3
  Miles Ahead
  4:27
• 4
  Smooch
  3:04
• 5
  Four
  4:00
  4.0 ★
• 6
  Old Devil Moon
  3:21
  4.0 ★
• 7
  Blue Haze
  6:08
• 8
  Solar
  4:41
• 9
  You Don’t Know What Love Is
  4:21
• 10
  Love Me or Leave Me
  6:55
• 11
  I’ll Remember April
  7:50
  5.0 ★
• 12
  Blue ’n’ Boogie
  8:16
• 13
  Walkin’
  13:23
  4.0 ★
• 14
  Airegin
  4:57
• CD 2
• 1
  Oleo
  5:11
• 2
  But Not for Me
  4:34
• 3
  Doxy
  4:52
  4.0 ★
• 4
  Bag’s Groove
  9:19
• 5
  Bemsha Swing
  9:30
• 6
  Swing Spring
  10:42
• 7
  The Man I Love
  7:55
• 8
  Nature Boy
  6:15
• 9
  Alone Together
  7:16
• 10
  There’s No You
  8:06
• 11
  Easy Living
  5:03

More by Miles Davis

Kind of Blue

Kind of Blue 1959

In a Silent Way

In a Silent Way 1969

Birth of the Cool

Birth of the Cool 1957

Bitches Brew

Bitches Brew 1970

Seven Steps to Heaven

Seven Steps to Heaven 1963

Milestones

Milestones 1958

Release credits

• Art Blakey
  drums (drum set) [5-7]
• Britt Woodman
  trombone [8-11]
• Charles Mingus
  double bass [8, 8-11], piano [4]
• Davey Schildkraut
  alto saxophone [8, 10-11]
• Elvin Jones
  drums (drum set) [8-11]
• Horace Silver
  piano [2.1, 2.3, 1.5-14]
• J.J. Johnson
  trombone [12-13]
• John Lewis
  piano [1-2, 5-6]
• Kenny Clarke
  drums (drum set) [1.8-14, 2.1, 2.3, 2.5-6]
• Lucky Thompson
  tenor saxophone [12-13]
• Max Roach
  drums (drum set) [1-2, 4]
• Miles Davis
  trumpet [2.1, 2.3, 2.5-6, 2.8-11, 1.1-2, 1.4-14]
• Miles Davis Sextet
  performer [12-13]
• Milt Jackson
  vibraphone [5-6]
• Percy Heath
  bass [1.5-7, 1.11, 2.5], double bass [1.1-2, 1.4-14, 2.1, 2.3, 2.5-6]
• Rudy van Gelder
  recording [2.1, 2.3, 2.8-11, 1.8-14]
• Sonny Rollins
  tenor saxophone [2.1, 2.3, 1.14]
• Teddy Charles
  vibraphone [8-11]
• Thelonious Monk
  piano [5-6]
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Issues

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  The Essential Collection – 1953–55 Sessions

  2x CD
  2006