Twenty Classic Albums

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
  3.6 ★
• 2
  Ah-Leu-Cha
  5:50
  4.0 ★
• 3
  All of You
  7:00
  4.0 ★
• 4
  Bye Bye Blackbird
  7:54
  4.0 ★
• 5
  Tadd's Delight
  4:27
  3.5 ★
• 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
  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
  2.5 ★
• 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

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

• 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) [1.19-20, 2.1-7, 2.9-10, 2.12]
• Art Taylor
  drums (drum set) [4.5-8, 7.7-10, 7.12-16]
• Bennie Green
  trombone [7-8, 10]
• Bernie Glow
  trumpet [7.7-10, 7.12-16, 10.9, 10.11]
• Bernie Green
  trombone [7-8]
• Bill Barber
  tuba [10.9, 10.11, 7.7-10, 7.12-16, 1.1-12]
• Bill Evans
  piano [4]
• Billy Bauer
  guitar [14-15]
• Bob Weinstock
  producer [2.1-7, 1.19-21, 8.1-4], task [6-11]
• Britt Woodman
  trombone [1-4]
• Cannonball Adderley
  alto saxophone [10.4, 10.9, 10.11, 8.5, 8.8]
• 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 [10.9, 10.11, 7.7-10, 7.12-16]
• 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 [10.9, 10.11, 7.3, 1.3, 1.8], conductor [9, 11]
• Gunther Schuller
  French horn [10.9, 10.11, 1.3, 1.6, 1.9, 1.12]
• Horace Silver
  piano [6.9-12, 2.8-10, 2.12, 3.1-5]
• Ira Gitler
  producer [15]
• J.J. Johnson
  trombone [1.3-4, 1.6, 1.8-12, 3.1-2]
• 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, 6.1-3, 6.5, 8.2-5, 8.8, 10.4-5, 5.1, 5.3-6, 7.1-6]
• John Lewis
  arranger [1, 5, 11], piano [5.7-8, 5.10-14, 1.3-4, 1.6, 1.8-12, 2.9-10, 2.13-15]
• 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, 5.11-14, 1.4, 1.8, 1.10-11, 2.8, 6.7-12, 9.2, 9.4]
• 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 [1.1-12, 1.14-15, 1.19-20, 5.1-8, 5.10-14, 2.1-15, 4.1-8, 10.4-5, 10.9, 10.11, 6.1-3, 6.5, 6.7-12, 3.1-11, 9.2-4, 7.1-6, 8.1-5, 8.8]
• Miles Davis Sextet
  performer [1-2]
• Milt Jackson
  vibraphone [6.7-8, 9.2, 9.4, 4.5-8]
• Nelson Boyd
  double bass [4, 8, 10-11]
• Oscar Pettiford
  double bass [6-11]
• Paul Chambers
  bass [5, 9, 11], double bass [7.1-10, 7.12-16, 5.1-6, 10.4, 6.1-3, 6.5, 8.1-5, 8.8, 9.3]
• Percy Heath
  bass [5.10, 2.8-10, 2.12, 9.4], double bass [3.1-5, 4.5-6, 4.6-8, 6.7-12, 9.2, 9.4, 2.8-15, 5.7, 5.7-8, 5.10]
• Phil Bodner
  flute [9]
• Philly Joe Jones
  drums (drum set) [10.5, 10.11, 3.6-11, 9.3, 7.1-6, 5.1-6, 6.1-3, 6.5, 8.1-5, 8.8]
• Ray Bryant
  piano [5-8]
• Raymond Moore
  engineer [2-5], recording [1, 6]
• Red Garland
  piano [6.1-3, 6.5, 7.1-6, 9.3, 10.5, 8.1-5, 8.8, 5.1-6, 3.6-11]
• Romeo Penque
  clarinet [7-10, 12-16], flute [10.9, 10.11, 7.7-10, 7.12-16]
• Roy Haynes
  drums (drum set) [1.21, 5.7-8, 5.10]
• Rudy van Gelder
  recording [4.1-8, 6.9-12, 3.1-11, 5.1-6, 8.1-4, 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 [5.7-8, 5.10, 6.9-12, 1.19-20, 2.1-7]
• 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 [6.7-8, 9.2, 9.4]
• Tom Mitchell
  bass trombone [7-10, 12-16]
• Tommy Potter
  bass [21], double bass [2.1-5, 2.7, 1.19-20]
• Walter Bishop, Jr.
  piano [1.19-20, 2.1-7]
• Willie Ruff
  French horn [10.9, 10.11, 7.7-10, 7.12-16]
• Zoot Sims
  tenor saxophone [11-14]
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Issues

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  Twenty Classic Albums

  10x CD
  2011