The Perfect Miles Davis Collection

Compilation by Miles Davis

Released 23 September 2011

jazz hard bop post-bop

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CD 1: 'Round About Midnight
1
’Round Midnight
Miles Davis Quintet
5:58
3.7 ★
2
Ah‐Leu‐Cha
Miles Davis Quintet
5:53
3.8 ★
3
All of You
Miles Davis Quintet
7:03
4.0 ★
4
Bye Bye Blackbird
Miles Davis Quintet
7:57
4.0 ★
5
Tadd’s Delight
Miles Davis Quintet
4:29
3.8 ★
6
Dear Old Stockholm
Miles Davis Quintet
7:52
4.0 ★
7
Two Bass Hit
Miles Davis Quintet
3:45
8
Little Melonae
Miles Davis Quintet
7:22
9
Budo
Miles Davis Quintet
4:17
10
Sweet Sue, Just You
Miles Davis Quintet
3:40
CD 2: Miles Ahead
1
Springsville
3:27
2
The Maids of Cadiz
3:53
3
The Duke
3:34
4
My Ship
4:27
5
Miles Ahead
3:29
6
Blues for Pablo
5:18
7
New Rhumba
4:36
8
The Meaning of the Blues
2:48
9
Lament
2:14
10
I Don't Wanna Be Kissed (By Anyone but You)
3:11
11
Springsville (remake take 7)
3:16
12
Blues for Pablo (take 1)
3:32
13
Medley: The Meaning of the Blues / Lament (rehearsal)
5:09
14
I Don't Wanna Be Kissed (By Anyone but You) (alternate take)
3:11
CD 3: 1958 Miles
1
On Green Dolphin Street
9:50
3.8 ★
2
Fran-Dance
5:49
3
Stella by Starlight
4:46
4.0 ★
4
Love for Sale
11:49
2.2 ★
5
Fran-Dance (alternate)
5:51
CD 4: Porgy and Bess
1
Buzzard Song
4:09
2
Bess, You Is My Woman Now
5:12
3
Gone
3:38
4
Gone, Gone, Gone
2:05
5
Summertime
3:21
5.0 ★
6
Oh Bess, Oh Where's My Bess
4:30
7
Prayer (Oh Doctor Jesus)
4:42
8
Fishermen, Strawberry and Devil Crab
4:07
9
My Man's Gone Now
6:16
10
It Ain't Necessarily So
4:25
11
Here Come de Honey Man
1:20
12
I Loves You, Porgy
3:42
3.8 ★
13
There's a Boat That's Leaving Soon for New York
3:26
14
I Loves You, Porgy (take 1, Second version)
4:16
15
Gone (take 4)
3:40
CD 5: Kind of Blue
1
So What
9:25
4.2 ★
2
Freddie Freeloader
9:49
3.8 ★
3
Blue in Green
5:37
3.4 ★
4
All Blues
11:35
3.9 ★
5
Flamenco Sketches
9:25
4.2 ★
6
Flamenco Sketches (alternate take)
9:32
4.0 ★
CD 6: Sketches of Spain
1
Concierto de Aranjuez
16:20
2
Will O' the Wisp
3:47
2.0 ★
3
The Pan Piper
3:55
3.3 ★
4
Saeta
4:57
5
Solea
12:08
3.4 ★
6
Song of Our Country
3:24
7
Concierto de Aranjuez (Part 1, Alt. Take)
12:04
8
Concierto de Aranjuez (Part 2, Alt. Take)
3:34
CD 7: Someday My Prince Will Come
1
Someday My Prince Will Come
Miles Davis Sextet
9:05
2
Old Folks
Miles Davis Sextet
5:17
3
Pfrancing (No Blues)
Miles Davis Sextet
8:33
4
Drad-Dog
Miles Davis Sextet
4:51
5
Teo
Miles Davis Sextet
9:35
6
I Thought About You
Miles Davis Sextet
4:55
7
Blues No.2
Miles Davis Sextet
7:08
8
Someday My Prince Will Come (alternate take)
Miles Davis Sextet
5:33
CD 8: Seven Steps to Heaven
1
Basin Street Blues
10:30
4.3 ★
2
Seven Steps to Heaven
6:26
3
I Fall in Love Too Easily
6:46
4.0 ★
4
So Near, So Far
6:59
5
Baby Won't You Please Come Home
8:28
6
Joshua
7:00
7
So Near, So Far (alternate)
5:11
8
Summer Night
6:01
CD 9: Miles in Berlin
1
Milestones
8:58
2
Autumn Leaves
12:38
3
So What
10:27
4
Stella by Starlight
12:53
5
Walkin'
10:39
6
Go-Go (The Theme) + Announcement
1:45
CD 10: E.S.P.
1
E.S.P.
5:32
2
Eighty-One
6:16
3
Little One
7:24
4
R.J.
3:59
5
Agitation
7:48
6
Iris
8:33
7
Mood
8:49
CD 11: Miles Smiles
1
Orbits
Miles Davis Quintet
4:38
2
Circle
Miles Davis Quintet
5:54
3
Footprints
Miles Davis Quintet
9:48
4
Dolores
Miles Davis Quintet
6:23
5
Freedom Jazz Dance
Miles Davis Quintet
7:12
6
Gingerbread Boy
Miles Davis Quintet
7:48
CD 12: Nefertiti
1
Nefertiti
7:55
3.7 ★
2
Fall
6:38
4.0 ★
3
Hand Jive
8:57
4.0 ★
4
Madness
7:33
5.0 ★
5
Riot
3:05
4.0 ★
6
Pinocchio
5:09
4.0 ★
7
Hand Jive (First alternate take)
6:51
8
Hand Jive (Second alternate take)
8:17
9
Madness (alternate take)
6:45
10
Pinocchio (alternate take)
5:08
CD 13: Filles de Kilimanjaro
1
Frelon Brun (Brown Hornet)
5:43
2.0 ★
2
Tout de Suite
14:09
3
Petits Machins (Little Stuff)
8:10
4
Filles de Kilimanjaro
12:04
5
Mademoiselle Mabry (Miss Mabry)
16:36
6
Tout de Suite (alternate take)
14:38
CD 14: In a Silent Way
1
Shhh/Peaceful (original LP mix From 1969)
18:16
3.7 ★
2
In a Silent Way/It's About That Time (original LP mix From 1969)
19:52
3.3 ★
CD 15: Bitches Brew (CD 1)
1
Pharaoh's Dance
20:07
3.9 ★
2
Bitches Brew
27:00
2.8 ★
CD 16: Bitches Brew (CD 2)
1
Spanish Key
17:26
3.9 ★
2
John McLaughlin
4:24
3.0 ★
3
Miles Runs the Voodoo Down
14:01
3.8 ★
4
Sanctuary
10:56
3.9 ★
5
Feio
11:49
3.8 ★
CD 17: A Tribute to Jack Johnson
1
Right Off
26:54
4.0 ★
2
Yesternow
25:35
4.0 ★
CD 18: On The Corner
1
On the Corner
2:59
2
New York Girl
1:29
3
Thinkin' One Thing and Doin' Another
6:44
4
Vote for Miles
8:47
5
Black Satin
5:20
4.3 ★
6
One and One
6:09
7
Helen Butte
16:05
8
Mr. Freedom X
7:14
CD 19: We Want Miles (CD 1)
1
Jean Pierre
10:42
2
Back Seat Betty
8:20
4.0 ★
3
Fast Track
15:19
4
Jean Pierre
4:04
5
Ursula
2:10
6
Aida
12:18
CD 20: We Want Miles (CD 2)
1
My Man's Gone Now
20:19
2
KIX
18:49
3
Fat Time
13:05
CD 21: Star People
1
Come Get It
11:18
2
It Gets Better
9:51
3
Speak
8:29
4
Star People
18:47
5
U 'n' L
5:56
6
Star on Cicely
4:27
CD 22: Decoy
1
Decoy
8:33
4.0 ★
2
Robot 415
1:10
4.0 ★
3
Code M.D.
5:59
4.0 ★
4
Freaky Deaky
4:34
4.0 ★
5
What It Is
4:32
4.0 ★
6
That's Right
11:12
4.0 ★
7
That's What Happened
3:31
4.0 ★

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Release credits

Al Block
flugelhorn [1, 8], flute [1, 1-5]
Al Foster
drums (drum set) [21.1-6, 18.5-6, 19.5, 22.1, 22.3-4, 22.6]
Art Taylor
drums (drum set) [10]
Badal Roy
tabla [5-6]
Bennie Maupin
bass clarinet [17.2, 15.1-2, 16.1-3, 18.5]
Bernie Glow
trumpet [4.2-5, 4.7, 4.10, 4.12-13, 6.1, 6.1-7, 2.10]
Bill Barber
tuba [2.10, 4.2-5, 4.7, 4.10, 4.12-13, 6.2-7]
Bill Evans
piano [3.1-5, 5.1, 5.3-6]
Bill Evans
flute [5], soprano saxophone [19.5, 22.5, 22.7, 21.2-3, 21.5-6], tenor saxophone [19.5, 21.4]
Billy Cobham
drums (drum set) [1-2]
Billy Hart
drums (drum set) [5-6]
Branford Marsalis
soprano saxophone [1, 3, 6]
Cannonball Adderley
alto saxophone [4.2-5, 4.7, 4.10, 4.12-13, 3.1-5, 5.1-2, 5.4-6]
Carlos Garnett
soprano saxophone [5]
Chick Corea
Rhodes piano [5-6], electric piano [16.1-4, 13.1, 13.5, 15.2, 17.2, 14.1-2], keyboard [1], piano [1, 5]
Collin Walcott
electric sitar [6]
Danny Bank
alto flute [12], bass clarinet [4.2-5, 4.7, 4.10, 4.12-13, 6.1, 6.1-8]
Danny Banks
bass clarinet [10]
Darryl Jones
electric bass guitar [1, 3-7]
Dave Holland
bass [15.1-2, 16.1-2, 16.4, 13.1, 13.5], double bass [1-2], electric bass guitar [16.3, 17.2]
David Creamer
guitar [5-6]
Dick Hixson
bass trombone [2-5, 7, 10, 13], trombone [6.1, 6.1-8, 4.12]
Dick Nixon
bass trombone [2-4, 7, 10, 13]
Don Alias
congas [15.1-2, 16.1-2, 16.4], drums (drum set) [3]
Don Puluse
recording [4-6]
Earl Chapin
French horn [1, 8]
Eddie Caine
flute [1]
Elvin Jones
percussion [1, 1-8]
Ernie Royal
trumpet [4.2-5, 4.7, 4.10, 4.12-13, 2.10, 6.1, 6.1-7]
Frank Butler
drums (drum set) [1, 3, 5, 8]
Frank Laico
recording [13.1, 13.5, 15.2, 16.2, 16.4]
Frank Rehak
trombone [2.10, 4.2-5, 4.7, 4.10, 4.12-13, 6.1, 6.1-8]
Fred Plaut
engineer [5.2-4, 5.6, 8.1-8], recording [1, 5]
George Avakian
producer [1-6, 8-9]
George Coleman
tenor saxophone [1-6, 8]
Gil Evans
arranger [6.1-6, 1.3, 22.6, 4.2-5, 4.7, 4.10, 4.12-13], conductor [6.1, 6.1-6, 4.2-5, 4.7, 4.10, 4.12-13]
Gunther Schuller
French horn [2-5, 7, 10, 12-13]
Guy Charbonneau
recording [5, 7]
Hank Mobley
tenor saxophone [1-2, 4, 6]
Harold "Ivory" Williams
organ [5-6], synthesizer [5-6]
Harold Feldman
clarinet [1], flute [2-5], oboe [1]
Harvey Brooks
bass [1], electric bass guitar [16.3, 15.2]
Herbie Hancock
Rhodes piano [13.2-4, 13.6, 18.5-6], electric piano [13.4, 14.1-2], electronic organ [1-2], piano [11.1-6, 13.2-4, 13.6, 8.2, 8.4, 8.6, 9.1-6, 10.1-7, 12.1-10], synthesizer [5-6]
Irving Townsend
producer [1-6]
Jack DeJohnette
drums (drum set) [18.5-6, 17.2, 15.1-2, 16.1-4]
Jack Knitzer
bassoon [2-5]
James McAllister
tuba [1]
Janet Putnam
harp [1, 1-5]
Jay Messina
additional [4], recording [2]
Jerome Richardson
clarinet [12], flute [5, 7, 12-13]
Jim Buffington
French horn [1, 1-5, 8]
Jim McAllister
tuba [1]
Jim Riley
congas [15.2, 16.2-4], shakers [16.1-2, 16.4, 15.2]
Jimmy Cleveland
trombone [2.10, 4.2-5, 4.7, 4.10, 4.12-13]
Jimmy Cobb
drums (drum set) [3.1-5, 7.1-2, 7.4, 7.6, 4.2, 4.7, 4.10, 4.12-13, 6.1, 6.1-8, 5.1-6]
Joe Bennett
trombone [2.10, 4.2-5, 4.7, 4.10, 4.12-13]
Joe Zawinul
electric piano [16.1-2, 16.4, 15.2], keyboard [1], organ [1-2]
John Barrows
French horn [1, 8]
John Carisi
trumpet [10]
John Coltrane
tenor saxophone [7.1, 3.1-5, 1.1-10, 5.1-6]
John McLaughlin
electric guitar [16.2-4, 17.1-2, 15.2], guitar [16.1, 15.1, 14.1-2]
John Scofield
electric guitar [2, 2-3, 3], guitar [1, 3, 5-7], solo [2-3]
Johnny Coles
trumpet [4.2-5, 4.7, 4.10, 4.12-13, 6.2-7]
Joseph Singer
French horn [2-5]
José Mangual
percussion [1-8]
Julius Watkins
French horn [2-5, 7, 10, 12-13]
Juma Santos
percussion [1]
Khalil Balakrishna
electric sitar [5]
Larry Young
electric piano [1-3], keyboard [1]
Lee Konitz
alto saxophone [10]
Lenny White
drums (drum set) [16.1-2, 15.1-2]
Louis R. Mucci
trumpet [4.2-5, 4.7, 4.10, 4.12-13, 2.10, 6.1, 6.8]
Marcus Miller
bass guitar [5], electric bass guitar [21.1-2, 21.4-6, 19.5]
Michael Henderson
bass [5-6], electric bass guitar [1-2]
Mike Stern
electric guitar [21.1, 21.3-6, 19.5]
Miles Davis
arranger [2, 4-7], brass [2-5], chimes [9], flugelhorn [2.10, 4.2-5, 4.7, 4.10, 4.13, 6.1, 6.8], keyboard [1, 3-4, 6], performer [10], producer [1-7], synthesizer [4-7], trumpet [7.1-2, 7.4, 7.6, 10.1-7, 4.2-5, 4.7, 4.10, 4.12-13, 14.1-2, 16.1-4, 18.5-6, 21.1-6, 11.1-6, 5.1-2, 5.2-6, 9.1-6, 12.1-10, 19.5, 13.1-6, 15.1-2, 22.1-3, 22.5-7, 8.1-6, 8.8, 6.1, 1.1-10, 17.1-2, 3.1-5]
Mino Cinelu
percussion [22.1-7, 19.5, 21.1-6]
Paul Chambers
bass [7.4, 1.8, 4.2-5, 4.7, 4.10, 4.13], double bass [4.12, 2.10, 6.1, 6.1-8, 7.1-2, 7.6, 3.1-5, 1.1-7, 1.9-10, 5.1-6, 5.6]
Phil Bodner
flute [2-4, 10]
Philly Joe Jones
drums (drum set) [1.1-10, 4.3-5, 4.7, 4.13]
Raymond Moore
engineer [2-5], recording [1, 6]
Red Garland
piano [1-10]
Robert Irving III
arranger [1-3], bass synthesizer [2], drum machine [2-3], synthesizer [1-3, 6]
Romeo Penque
clarinet [4.12, 2.10], flute [2.10, 4.2-5, 4.7, 4.10, 4.12-13], oboe [1-8]
Ron Carter
bass [11.2, 13.3-4, 9.4], double bass [8.1-6, 8.8, 9.1-3, 9.5-6, 10.1-7, 12.1-10, 11.1-6], electric bass guitar [2, 4, 6], electric upright bass [2, 4, 6]
Ron Lorman
engineer [1-4, 6], mix [1-7], sound [1, 3]
Russ Payne
editor [1-2], task [14.1-2, 18.5-6]
Sid Cooper
clarinet [10], flute [10]
Sonny Sharrock
electric guitar [2]
Stanley Tonkell
engineer [1-2], recording [14.1-2, 15.1, 16.1, 16.3, 16.5], task [5-6]
Steve Grossman
soprano saxophone [1-2]
Taft Jordan
trumpet [6.1, 6.8, 2.10]
Teo Macero
arranger [3], producer [3.1-4, 8.1-8, 21.1-6, 14.1-2, 17.1-2]
Tom Barney
electric bass guitar [3]
Tom Mitchell
bass trombone [10]
Tom Suzuki
mix [5]
Tom Swift
assistant [1-4, 6], editor [1-7]
Tony Miranda
French horn [2-5]
Tony Williams
drums (drum set) [8.2, 8.4, 8.6, 10.1-7, 11.1-6, 12.1-10, 13.1-6, 14.1-2, 9.1-6]
Victor Feldman
piano [1, 3, 5, 8]
Wayne Shorter
soprano saxophone [14.1-2, 15.1-2, 16.1-4], tenor saxophone [11.1-6, 13.1-6, 10.1-7, 9.1-6, 12.1-10]
Willie Ruff
French horn [2.10, 4.2-5, 4.7, 4.10, 4.12-13]
Wynton Kelly
piano [5.2, 7.1-2, 7.4, 7.6]

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The Perfect Miles Davis Collection
22x CD
23 September 2011