The Legendary Years 1955–1965

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Stella by Starlight
  4:45
  4.0 ★
• 2
  It Ain’t Necessarily So
  4:26
• 3
  I Thought About You
  4:58
• 4
  Fran Dance
  5:51
• 5
  Straight, No Chaser (alternate take)
  10:29
• 6
  Drad Dog
  4:33
• 7
  Seven Steps to Heaven
  6:25
• 8
  Song of Our Country (Issued Take)
  3:25
• 9
  So What
  9:25
  4.2 ★
• 10
  The Maids of Cadiz
  3:59
• 11
  All Blues
  11:36
  3.9 ★
• 12
  ’Round Midnight
  5:55
  3.7 ★
• CD 2
• 1
  Summertime
  3:21
  5.0 ★
• 2
  My Ship
  4:31
  5.0 ★
• 3
  Miles
  5:45
• 4
  Freddie Freeloader
  9:47
  3.8 ★
• 5
  Eighty-One
  6:16
• 6
  Sweet Sue, Just You
  3:42
• 7
  Bye Bye Blackbird (alternate take)
  7:51
• 8
  Basin Street Blues
  10:32
  4.3 ★
• 9
  Two Bass Hit
  3:45
• 10
  Someday My Prince Will Come
  9:08
• 11
  I Fall in Love Too Easily
  6:46
  4.0 ★

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

Ascenseur pour l’échafaud

Ascenseur pour l’échafaud 1958

Release credits

• Art Taylor
  drums (drum set) [1.10, 2.2]
• Bernie Glow
  trumpet [2.1-2, 1.2, 1.8, 1.10]
• Bill Barber
  tuba [1.2, 1.8, 1.10, 2.1-2]
• Bill Evans
  piano [1, 4, 9, 11]
• Cannonball Adderley
  alto saxophone [1.1-2, 1.4, 1.9, 1.11, 2.1, 2.4]
• Danny Bank
  bass clarinet [2.1, 1.2, 1.8]
• Danny Banks
  bass clarinet [2.2, 1.10]
• Dick Hixson
  bass trombone [2.1, 1.2], trombone [8]
• Dick Nixon
  bass trombone [2]
• Elvin Jones
  percussion [8]
• Ernie Royal
  trumpet [1.2, 1.8, 1.10, 2.1-2]
• Frank Butler
  drums (drum set) [8, 11]
• Frank Rehak
  trombone [2.1-2, 1.2, 1.8, 1.10]
• Fred Plaut
  engineer [1.7, 1.11, 2.4, 2.8, 2.11], recording [9]
• George Avakian
  producer [12]
• George Coleman
  tenor saxophone [2.8, 2.11, 1.7]
• Gil Evans
  arranger [2.1, 1.2, 1.8], conductor [2.1, 1.2, 1.8]
• Gunther Schuller
  French horn [1.2, 2.1]
• Hank Mobley
  tenor saxophone [2.10, 1.3]
• Herbie Hancock
  piano [1.7, 2.5]
• Irving Townsend
  producer [1.9, 1.11, 2.4]
• Jerome Richardson
  flute [1]
• Jimmy Cleveland
  trombone [2.1-2, 1.2, 1.10]
• Jimmy Cobb
  drums (drum set) [1.1-4, 1.8-9, 1.11, 2.4, 2.10]
• Joe Bennett
  trombone [2.1-2, 1.2, 1.10]
• John Carisi
  trumpet [1.10, 2.2]
• John Coltrane
  tenor saxophone [2.4, 2.6-7, 2.9-10, 1.1, 1.4, 1.9, 1.11-12]
• Johnny Coles
  trumpet [2.1, 1.2, 1.8]
• José Mangual
  percussion [8]
• Julius Watkins
  French horn [1.2, 2.1]
• Lee Konitz
  alto saxophone [1.10, 2.2]
• Louis R. Mucci
  trumpet [2.1-2, 1.2, 1.10]
• Miles Davis
  flugelhorn [1.2, 1.10, 2.1-2], performer [2], trumpet [1.1-4, 1.7, 1.9, 1.11-12, 2.1, 2.4, 2.4-11]
• Paul Chambers
  bass [1.2, 2.1], double bass [1.1, 1.3-4, 1.8-12, 2.2, 2.4, 2.6-7, 2.9-10]
• Phil Bodner
  flute [2]
• Philly Joe Jones
  drums (drum set) [1.12, 2.1, 2.6-7, 2.9]
• Raymond Moore
  recording [12]
• Red Garland
  piano [1.12, 2.6-7, 2.9]
• Romeo Penque
  clarinet [1.10, 2.2], flute [1.2, 1.10, 2.1-2], oboe [8]
• Ron Carter
  double bass [2.5, 2.8, 2.11, 1.7]
• Sid Cooper
  clarinet [2.2, 1.10], flute [1.10, 2.2]
• Taft Jordan
  trumpet [1.10, 2.2]
• Teo Macero
  producer [1.1, 1.4, 1.7, 2.8, 2.11]
• Tom Mitchell
  bass trombone [2.2, 1.10]
• Tony Williams
  drums (drum set) [1.7, 2.5]
• Victor Feldman
  piano [8, 11]
• Wayne Shorter
  tenor saxophone [5]
• Willie Ruff
  French horn [1.2, 1.10, 2.1-2]
• Wynton Kelly
  piano [1.3, 2.4, 2.10]
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Issues

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  The Legendary Years 1955–1965

  2x CD
  13 June 2001