Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Morpheus
2. Down
3. Blue Room (Take 1)
4. Blue Room (Take 2)
5. Whispering
6. I Know
7. Odjenar
8. Ezz-thetic
9. Hibeck
10. Yesterdays
11. Conception
12. Out Of The Blue
13. Denial
14. Bluing
15. Dig
16. My Old Flame
17. It's Only A Paper Moon

Disc 2:

1. Compulsion
2. The Serpent's Tooth (Take 1)
3. The Serpent's Tooth (Take 2)
4. 'Round About Midnight
5. Tasty Pudding
6. Willie The Wailer
7. Floppy
8. For Adults Only
9. When Lights Are Low
10. Tune Up
11. Miles Ahead
12. Smooch
13. Four
14. Old Devil Moon
15. Blue Haze

Disc 3:

1. Solar
2. You Don't Know What Love Is
3. Love Me Or Leave Me
4. I'll Remember April
5. Blue 'N' Boogie
6. Walkin'
7. Airegin
8. Oleo
9. But Not For Me (Take 1)
10. But Not For Me (Take 2)
11. Doxy

Disc 4:

1. Bags' Groove (Take 1)
2. Bags' Groove (Take 2)
3. Bemsha Swing
4. Swing Spring
5. The Man I Love (Take 1)
6. The Man I Love (Take 2)
7. I Didn't
8. Will You Still Be Mine?

Disc 5:

1. Green Haze
2. I See Your Face Before Me
3. A Night In Tunisia
4. A Gal In Calico
5. Dr. Jackle
6. Bitty Ditty
7. Minor March
8. Changes
9. In Your Own Sweet Way
10. No Line
11. Vierd Blues

Disc 6:

1. Stablemates
2. How Am I To Know?
3. Just Squeeze Me
4. There Is No Greater Love
5. The Theme
6. S'Posin'
7. In Your Own Sweet Way
8. Diane
9. Trane's Blues
10. Something I Dreamed Last Night

Disc 7:

1. It Could Happen To You
2. Woodyn' You
3. Ahmad's Blues
4. Surrey With The Fringe On Top
5. It Never Entered My Mind
6. When I Fall In Love
7. Salt Peanuts
8. Four
9. The Theme (Take 1)
10. The Theme (Take 2)
11. If I Were A Bell
12. Well, You Needn't

Disc 8:

1. 'Round About Midnight
2. Half Nelson
3. You're My Everything
4. I Could Write A Book
5. Oleo
6. Airegin
7. Tune Up
8. When Lights Are Low
9. Blues By Five
10. My Funny Valentine

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #18390 in Music
• Released on: 2011-07-05
• Number of discs: 8
• Formats: Box set, Best of
• Dimensions: 2.66 pounds

From Amazon.com
The expanse of Miles Davis's recordings for Prestige Records, the California analogue to New York's Blue Note, is huge. In terms of artistic development, the eight CDs in this box span Davis's development from tentative searching through the full bloom of his first great quintet, whose frontline boasted Davis and a young John Coltrane. The sessions captured on Chronicle begin in 1951, with Davis's grainy debut for the label in a sextet with Sonny Rollins, and continue with the fascinating Lee Konitz-led quintet that Davis was eminently adaptable to, even with the kind of angular sounds Konitz's band drummed up. Listing the remaining sessions would be an exercise in boasting, given the presence of so many virtuoso bop and postbop giants. Given that Davis may well have piqued Prestige founder Bob Weinstock's interest through his playing with Charlie Parker, Bird shows up on a 1953 date, doubling tenor saxes with Rollins. Some have remarked that the pre-1954 Davis dates don't show nearly the smarts of the 1954 and after works, but for all that huff, there's some deep stuff in the early sessions, from the twined tenor saxes of Al Cohn and Zoot Sims to Davis's own uneasily fragile tone that hadn't taken on the full heft of its later precision. Then there are the quintet recordings, which carve out a secure spot for Davis in the annals of ultracreative jazz. Recorded in three marathon 1956 sessions, the quintet works came out on several LPs, all of which remain in print today in their exact form. The group sculpts a liquid groove that's got sharp teeth, what with Philly Joe Jones's crackling drums, and immeasurable tonic depth. Davis stays active in the midregister, blasting off lines that do indeed sound slow and methodical but also emit unmistakable impressionistic qualities that would wow fans for decades. Coltrane, himself still in a developing phase, drops lots of hints that knew bebop's architectonics so thoroughly as to be on the brink of deconstructing them definitively (which he later did on Giant Steps). Given the full trajectory of the music and the artists on these sessions, this is a majestic collection. --Andrew Bartlett