The Rough Guide to Jazz Legends: Miles Davis: Birth of a Legend

Tracklist

• CD 1: The Rough Guide to Jazz Legends: Miles Davis: Birth of a Legend
• 1
  Jeru

  The Miles Davis Nonet
  3:15
• 2
  Boplicity

  The Miles Davis Nonet
  3:02
  4.0 ★
• 3
  Ezz‐thetic
  2:53
• 4
  Dear Old Stockholm

  The Miles Davis Quintet
  7:49
  4.0 ★
• 5
  Nature Boy
  6:16
• 6
  ’Round Midnight

  The Miles Davis Quintet
  5:57
  3.6 ★
• 7
  Miles Ahead
  3:32
• 8
  Blues for Pablo
  5:19
• 9
  New Rhumba
  4:38
• 10
  Milestones
  5:45
• 11
  Dr Jackle

  The Miles Davis Sextet
  5:47
• 12
  Summertime
  3:19
  5.0 ★
• 13
  The Buzzard Song
  4:08
• 14
  Blue in Green
  5:36
• 15
  Stella by Starlight
  4:41
• CD 2: Jazz Giants
• 1
  Donna Lee

  Clark Terry Quintet
  4:03
• 2
  Wrap Up Your Troubles in Dreams

  Coleman Hawkins
  3:07
• 3
  Sound‐Lee

  Lee Konitz
  4:07
• 4
  Straight No Chaser

  Thelonious Monk
  2:58
• 5
  Walking Shoes

  Gerry Mulligan
  6:32
• 6
  Moanin’

  Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
  9:32
  4.0 ★
• 7
  Goodbye Pork Pie Hat

  Charles Mingus
  5:44
  5.0 ★
• 8
  Sister Sadie

  Horace Silver
  6:18
• 9
  Blue Train

  John Coltrane
  10:41
• 10
  Autumn Leaves

  Cannonball Adderley
  10:57
  5.0 ★

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

• Alfred Lion
  producer [6, 9-10]
• Art Blakey
  drums (drum set) [6, 10]
• Art Taylor
  drums (drum set) [7-8]
• Benny Golson
  tenor saxophone [6]
• Bernie Glow
  trumpet [7-8, 12]
• Bill Barber
  tuba [2, 7-8, 12]
• Bobby Timmons
  piano [6]
• Booker Ervin
  tenor saxophone [7]
• Britt Woodman
  trombone [5]
• Cannonball Adderley
  alto saxophone [2.10, 1.10-12]
• Charles Mingus
  double bass [1.5, 2.7]
• Curtis Fuller
  trombone [9]
• Dannie Richmond
  drums (drum set) [7]
• Danny Bank
  bass clarinet [12]
• Danny Banks
  bass clarinet [7-8]
• Dick Hixson
  bass trombone [12]
• Elvin Jones
  drums (drum set) [5]
• Ernie Royal
  trumpet [7-8, 12]
• Frank Rehak
  trombone [7-8, 12]
• George Avakian
  producer [4, 6]
• Gerry Mulligan
  baritone saxophone [2]
• Gil Evans
  arranger [2, 12], conductor [12]
• Gunther Schuller
  French horn [12]
• Hank Jones
  piano [10]
• Horace Parlan
  piano [7]
• J.J. Johnson
  trombone [2]
• Jerome Richardson
  flute [12]
• Jimmy Cleveland
  trombone [7-8, 12]
• Joe Bennett
  trombone [7-8, 12]
• John Carisi
  trumpet [7-8]
• John Coltrane
  tenor saxophone [2.9, 1.4, 1.6, 1.10-11]
• John Handy
  tenor saxophone [7]
• John Lewis
  piano [2]
• Johnny Coles
  trumpet [12]
• Julius Watkins
  French horn [12]
• Jymie Merritt
  double bass [6]
• Kenny Clarke
  drums (drum set) [2]
• Kenny Drew
  piano [9]
• Lee Konitz
  alto saxophone [2, 7-8]
• Lee Morgan
  trumpet [6, 9]
• Louis R. Mucci
  trumpet [7-8, 12]
• Miles Davis
  flugelhorn [7-8, 12], trumpet [2.10, 1.2, 1.4-6, 1.10-12]
• Nelson Boyd
  double bass [2]
• Paul Chambers
  bass [12], double bass [1.4, 1.6-8, 1.10-11, 2.9]
• Philly Joe Jones
  drums (drum set) [2.9, 1.4, 1.6, 1.10-12]
• Raymond Moore
  recording [4, 6]
• Red Garland
  piano [4, 6, 10-11]
• Romeo Penque
  clarinet [7-8], flute [7-8, 12]
• Rudy van Gelder
  engineer [10], recording [1.5, 2.6, 2.9]
• Sam Jones
  double bass [10]
• Sanford J. Siegelstein
  French horn [2]
• Sid Cooper
  clarinet [7-8], flute [7-8]
• Taft Jordan
  trumpet [7-8]
• Teddy Charles
  vibraphone [5]
• Teo Macero
  producer [7]
• The Gil Evans Orchestra
  performing orchestra [8]
• Tom Mitchell
  bass trombone [7-8]
• Willie Ruff
  French horn [7-8, 12]
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Issues

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  The Rough Guide to Jazz Legends: Miles Davis: Birth of a Legend

  2x CD
  23 May 2011
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  The Rough Guide to Jazz Legends: Miles Davis: Birth of a Legend

  12" Vinyl
  17 October 2011