Twenty Classic Albums

Compilation by Miles Davis

Released 2011

big band cool jazz hard bop

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Tracklist

CD 1: Birth of the Cool (1950) & Conception (1951)
1
Move
2:34
4.0 ★
2
Jeru
3:13
3.0 ★
3
Moon Dreams
3:19
4.0 ★
4
Venus de Milo
3:12
4.0 ★
5
Budo
2:34
4.0 ★
6
Deception
2:48
3.0 ★
7
Godchild
3:10
4.0 ★
8
Boplicity
3:01
4.0 ★
9
Rocker
3:06
4.0 ★
10
Israel
2:17
4.0 ★
11
Rouge
3:14
4.0 ★
12
Darn That Dream
3:25
4.0 ★
13
Odjenar
2:52
14
Hibeck
3:06
15
Yesterdays
2:26
16
Ezz-Thetic
2:53
17
Indian Summer
2:33
18
Duet for Saxophone and Guitar
2:39
19
Conception
4:09
20
My Old Flame
6:35
21
Intoit
3:21
3.0 ★
22
Prezervation
2:43
23
I May Be Wrong
3:28
24
So What
2:43
CD 2: Dig (1951) & Blue Haze (1954)
1
Dig
7:35
2
It's Only a Paper Moon
5:25
3
Denial
5:06
4
Bluing
8:33
5
Out of the Blue
6:16
6
Conception
6:34
7
My Old Flame
4:02
8
I'll Remember April
7:53
5.0 ★
9
Four
4:02
4.0 ★
10
Old Devil Moon
3:13
4.0 ★
11
Smooch
3:06
12
Blue Haze
6:09
13
When Lights Are Low
3:27
14
Tune Up
3:54
15
Miles Ahead
4:26
CD 3: Walkin' (1954) & The Musings of Miles (1955)
1
Walkin'
13:30
4.0 ★
2
Blue 'n' Boogie
8:20
3
Solar
4:45
4
You Don't Know What Love Is
4:23
5
Love Me or Leave Me
6:56
6
Will You Still Be Mine
6:22
7
I See Your Face Before Me
4:45
8
I Didn't
6:05
9
A Gal in Calico
5:17
10
A Night in Tunisia
7:22
11
Green Haze
5:48
4.0 ★
CD 4: Blue Moods (1955) & Quintet / Sextet (1955)
1
Nature Boy
6:16
2
Alone Together
7:18
3
There's No You
8:07
4
Easy Living
5:05
5
Dr Jackle
8:54
6
Bitty Ditty
6:37
7
Minor March
8:18
8
Changes
7:10
3.0 ★
CD 5: Miles: The New Miles Davis Quintet (1956) & Miles Davis with Horns (1956)
1
Just Squeeze Me
7:28
2
There Is No Greater Love
5:19
3
How Am I to Know
4:39
4
S'Posin
5:14
5
Miles Theme
5:49
6
Stablemates
5:20
7
Morpheus
2:22
8
Down
2:52
9
Blue Room (take 2)
2:48
10
Whispering
3:04
11
Tasty Pudding
3:22
12
Willie the Wailer
4:26
13
Floppy
6:01
14
For Adults Only
5:34
15
Blue Room (take 1)
3:00
CD 6: Relaxin' (1957) & Bag's Groove (1957)
1
If I Were a Bell
8:14
3.0 ★
2
You're My Everything
5:16
3
I Could Write a Book
5:07
4
Oleo
6:17
5
It Could Happen to You
6:28
6
Woody 'n' You
4:53
7
Bags' Groove (take 1)
11:14
8
Bags' Groove (take 2)
9:22
9
Airegin
4:59
10
But Not for Me (take 2)
4:36
11
Doxy
4:53
4.0 ★
12
But Not for Me (take 1)
5:42
CD 7: Round About Midnight (1957) & Mile's Ahead (1957)
1
'round About Midnight
5:56
3.7 ★
2
Ah-Leu-Cha
5:50
3.8 ★
3
All of You
7:00
4.0 ★
4
Bye Bye Blackbird
7:54
4.0 ★
5
Tadd's Delight
4:27
3.8 ★
6
Dear Old Stockholm
7:49
4.0 ★
7
Springsville
3:26
8
The Maids of Cadiz
3:54
9
The Duke
3:33
10
My Ship
4:28
5.0 ★
11
Miles Ahead
3:29
12
Blues for Pablo
5:18
13
New Rhumba
4:35
14
The Meaning of the Blues
2:49
15
Lament
2:13
16
I Don't Wanna Be Kissed (By Anyone but You)
3:00
CD 8: Cookin' (1957) & Milestones (1958)
1
My Funny Valentine
6:01
2
Blues by Five
9:56
4.0 ★
3
Airegin
4:26
4
Tune Up / When the Lights Are Low
13:08
5
Dr Jackle
5:48
6
Sid's Ahead
12:30
7
Two Bass Hit
5:13
8
Milestones
5:38
9
Billy Boy
7:15
10
Straight, No Chaser
9:12
CD 9: Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants (1958) & Somethin' Else (with Cannonball Adderley, 1958)
1
The Man I Love
7:59
2
Swing Spring
10:46
3
Round Midnight
5:24
4.0 ★
4
Bemsha Swing
9:33
5
The Man I Love
8:29
6
Autumn Leaves
10:58
7
Love for Sale
7:05
8
Somethin' Else
8:12
9
One for Daddy-O
8:24
CD 10: 1958 Miles (1958) & Selections from Porgy and Bess (1958)
1
On Green Dolphins Street
9:57
2
Fran Dance
5:55
3
Stella by Starlight
4:52
4
Love for Sale
11:51
2.2 ★
5
Little Melonae
7:22
6
My Man's Gone
6:15
7
Gone
3:39
8
Gone, Gone, Gone
2:05
9
It Ain't Necessarily
4:25
10
Here Comes the Honey Man
1:19
11
Summertime
3:20
5.0 ★
12
Oh Bess, Oh Where's My Bess
4:30
13
Prayer
4:39
14
There's a Boat Dat's Leavin' Soon for New York
3:24
15
I Loves You, Porgy
3:38

More by Miles Davis

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

Al Cohn
arranger [11], tenor saxophone [11-14]
Al Haig
piano [1-2, 5, 7, 21]
Al McKibbon
double bass [3, 6, 9, 12]
Arnold Fishkind
bass [14-15], double bass [15]
Art Blakey
drums (drum set) [2.1-7, 2.9-10, 2.12, 1.19-20]
Art Taylor
drums (drum set) [4.5-8, 7.7-10, 7.12-16]
Bennie Green
trombone [7-8, 10]
Bernie Glow
trumpet [10.9, 10.11, 7.7-10, 7.12-16]
Bernie Green
trombone [7-8]
Bill Barber
tuba [1.1-12, 7.7-10, 7.12-16, 10.9, 10.11]
Bill Evans
piano [4]
Billy Bauer
guitar [14-15]
Bob Weinstock
producer [1.19-21, 2.1-7, 8.1-4], task [6-11]
Britt Woodman
trombone [1-4]
Cannonball Adderley
alto saxophone [8.5, 8.8-9, 10.4, 10.9, 10.11]
Charles Mingus
double bass [4.1, 4.1-4, 1.19, 2.6], piano [11]
Danny Bank
bass clarinet [9, 11]
Danny Banks
bass clarinet [7-10, 12-16]
Davey Schildkraut
alto saxophone [2.8, 3.3, 3.5]
Dick Hixson
bass trombone [9, 11]
Dick Nixon
bass trombone [9]
Elvin Jones
drums (drum set) [1-4]
Ernie Royal
trumpet [7.7-10, 7.12-16, 10.9, 10.11]
Frank Rehak
trombone [10.9, 10.11, 7.7-10, 7.12-16]
George Avakian
producer [7.1-6, 10.5]
Gerry Mulligan
arranger [2, 4, 6-7, 9, 12], baritone saxophone [1-12]
Gil Evans
arranger [7.3, 1.3, 1.8, 10.9, 10.11], conductor [9, 11]
Gunther Schuller
French horn [10.9, 10.11, 1.3, 1.6, 1.9, 1.12]
Horace Silver
piano [2.8-10, 2.12, 6.9-12, 3.1-5]
Ira Gitler
producer [15]
J.J. Johnson
trombone [3.1-2, 1.3-4, 1.6, 1.8-12]
Jackie McLean
alto saxophone [1.20, 2.1, 2.3-5, 4.5-8]
Jerome Richardson
flute [11]
Jimmy Cleveland
trombone [7.7-10, 7.12-16, 10.9, 10.11]
Jimmy Cobb
drums (drum set) [4, 9]
Jimmy Raney
guitar [21]
Joe Bennett
trombone [7.7-10, 7.12-16, 10.9, 10.11]
Joe Shulman
double bass [1-2, 5, 7]
John Carisi
arranger [10], trumpet [7-10, 12-16]
John Coltrane
tenor saxophone [9.3, 8.2-5, 8.8-9, 10.4-5, 5.1, 5.3-6, 6.1-6, 7.1-6]
John Lewis
arranger [1, 5, 11], piano [1.3-4, 1.6, 1.8-12, 2.9-10, 2.13-15, 5.7-8, 5.10-14]
Johnny Coles
trumpet [9, 11]
Julius Watkins
French horn [9, 11]
Junior Collins
French horn [1-2, 5, 7]
Kai Winding
trombone [1-2, 5, 7]
Kenny Clarke
drums (drum set) [3.1-5, 6.7-12, 9.1-2, 9.4, 1.4, 1.8, 1.10-11, 5.11-14, 2.8]
Kenny Hagood
vocal [12]
Lee Konitz
alto saxophone [7.7-10, 7.12-16, 1.1-12, 1.14-15]
Leonard Gaskin
double bass [11-12, 12-13, 13-14, 14]
Louis R. Mucci
trumpet [7.7-10, 7.12-16, 10.9, 10.11]
Lucky Thompson
tenor saxophone [1-2]
Max Roach
drums (drum set) [1.1-3, 1.5-7, 1.9, 1.12, 1.14-15, 2.11, 2.13-15]
Miles Davis
flugelhorn [10.9, 10.11, 7.7-10, 7.12-16], performer [9], trumpet [3.1-11, 4.1-8, 5.1-8, 5.10-14, 10.4-5, 10.9, 10.11, 6.1-12, 8.1-5, 8.8-9, 9.1-4, 1.1-12, 1.14-15, 1.19-20, 7.1-6, 2.1-15]
Miles Davis Sextet
performer [1-2]
Milt Jackson
vibraphone [4.5-8, 6.7-8, 9.1-2, 9.4]
Nelson Boyd
double bass [4, 8, 10-11]
Oscar Pettiford
double bass [6-11]
Paul Chambers
bass [5, 9, 11], double bass [6.1-6, 7.1-10, 7.12-16, 10.4, 8.1-5, 8.8-9, 9.3, 5.1-6]
Percy Heath
bass [9.4, 2.8-10, 2.12, 5.10], double bass [2.8-15, 5.7, 5.7-8, 5.10, 9.1-2, 9.4, 6.7-12, 4.5-6, 4.6-8, 3.1-5]
Phil Bodner
flute [9]
Philly Joe Jones
drums (drum set) [8.1-5, 8.8-9, 9.3, 5.1-6, 3.6-11, 6.1-6, 10.5, 10.11, 7.1-6]
Ray Bryant
piano [5-8]
Raymond Moore
engineer [2-5], recording [1, 6]
Red Garland
piano [6.1-6, 8.1-5, 8.8-9, 9.3, 10.5, 3.6-11, 5.1-6, 7.1-6]
Romeo Penque
clarinet [7-10, 12-16], flute [7.7-10, 7.12-16, 10.9, 10.11]
Roy Haynes
drums (drum set) [1.21, 5.7-8, 5.10]
Rudy van Gelder
recording [4.1-8, 8.1-4, 5.1-6, 6.9-12, 3.1-11, 2.1-2, 2.5, 2.8]
Sal Mosca
piano [14-15]
Sanford J. Siegelstein
French horn [4, 8, 10-11]
Sid Cooper
clarinet [7-10, 12-16], flute [7-10, 12-16]
Sonny Rollins
tenor saxophone [2.1-7, 1.19-20, 5.7-8, 5.10, 6.9-12]
Sonny Truitt
trombone [11-14]
Stan Getz
tenor saxophone [21]
Taft Jordan
trumpet [7-10, 12-16]
Teddy Charles
vibraphone [1-4]
Teo Macero
arranger [3], producer [4]
The Gil Evans Orchestra
performing orchestra [12]
Thelonious Monk
piano [9.1-2, 9.4, 6.7-8]
Tom Mitchell
bass trombone [7-10, 12-16]
Tommy Potter
bass [21], double bass [1.19-20, 2.1-5, 2.7]
Walter Bishop, Jr.
piano [2.1-7, 1.19-20]
Willie Ruff
French horn [10.9, 10.11, 7.7-10, 7.12-16]
Zoot Sims
tenor saxophone [11-14]

Issues

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Twenty Classic Albums
10x CD
2011