Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Springville
2. The Maids Of Cadiz
3. The Duke
4. My Ship
5. Miles Ahead
6. Blues For Pablo
7. New Rhumba
8. The Meaning Of The Blues
9. Lament
10. I Don't Wanna Be Kissed (By Anyone But You)
11. Springsville (Remake Take 7)
12. The Maids Of Cadiz (Take 1)
13. The Duke (Take 11)
14. My Ship (Take 1)
15. Miles Ahead (Take 4)
16. Blues For Pablo (Take 1)
17. New Rhumba (Take 5)
18. The Meaning Of The Blues (Rehearsal Take)
19. Lament (Rehearsal Take)
20. I Don't Wanna Be Kissed (By Anyone But You) (Take 8)
21. Pause Track

Disc 2:

1. Buzzard Song
2. Bess, You Is My Woman Now
3. Gone
4. Gone, Gone, Gone
5. Summertime
6. Oh Bess, Oh Where's My Bess
7. Prayer (Oh Doctor Jesus)
8. Fishermen, Strawberry And Devil Crab
9. My Man's Gone Now
10. It Ain't Necessarily So
11. Here Come De Honey Man
12. I Loves You, Porgy
13. There's A Boat That's Leaving Soon For New York
14. Gone (Take 3)
15. Summertime (Take 2)
16. Prayer (Oh Doctor Jesus) (Take 2)
17. I Loves You, Porgy (Take 1, Second Version)
18. There's A Boat That's Leaving Soon For New York (Take 2)
19. Oh Bess, Oh Where's My Bess (Take 5)
20. Gone (Take 4)
21. Pause Track

Disc 3:

1. Concierto De Aranjuez (Adagio)
2. Will O' The Wisp
3. The Pan Piper
4. Saeta
5. Solea
6. Song Of Our Country (Issued Take)
7. Saeta (Full Version Of Master)
8. The Pan Piper (Take 1)
9. Concierto De Aranjuez (Adagio) (Part One, Alternate Take)
10. Concierto De Aranjuez (Adagio) (Part Two, Alternate Take)
11. Song Of Our Country (Take 14)
12. Pause Track

Disc 4:

1. Song No. 2
2. Once Upon A Summertime
3. Ads Pes Da Cruz
4. Song No. 1
5. Wait Till You See Her
6. Corcovado (Quiet Nights Of Quiet Stars)
7. Blue Xmas
8. Nothing Like You
9. Devil May Care
10. The Time Of The Barracudas
11. Falling Water (Take 4)
12. Falling Water (Take 6)
13. Falling Water (Take 8)
14. Falling Water (Take 9)
15. Springsville (Take 5)
16. The Maids Of Cadiz (Take 11)
17. The Maids Of Cadiz (Take 11, Insert 1)
18. Lament (Medley: Take 2)
19. The Duke (Take 1)
20. I Don't Wanna Be Kissed (By Anyone But You) (53225 Issued Version)

Disc 5:

1. Springsville (Rehearsal Sequence)
2. Springsville (Rehearsal With Piano)
3. The Maids Of Cadiz (Take 9)
4. The Maids Of Cadiz (Take 10)
5. The Maids Of Cadiz (Rehearsal Sequence)
6. Count Off For The Duke (Take 3)
7. The Duke (Take 8)
8. The Duke (Piano Take 3)
9. My Ship (Take 6)
10. Miles Ahead (Rehearsal Sequence)
11. Miles Ahead (Take 12)
12. Miles Ahead (Take 15)
13. Studio Discussion
14. My Ship (Take 7)
15. Miles Ahead (Piano Insert-Mono)
16. Blues For Pablo (Rehearsal Sequence)
17. New Rhumba (Take 2)
18. Lament (Take 1)
19. I Don't Wanna Be Kissed (By Anyone But You)
20. I Don't Wanna Be Kissed (By Anyone But You) (Take 5)
21. Studio Discussion
22. I Don't Wanna Be Kissed (By Anyone But You)
23. Pause Track

Disc 6:

1. Studio Discussion
2. Springsville (Take 8 Without Overdubs)
3. Studio Discussion
4. Miles Ahead (Take 11 Without Overdubs)
5. I Don't Wanna Be Kissed (By Anyone But You) (Take 3 Without Overdubs)
6. Springsville (Overdubs Take 1)
7. Springsville (Overdubbed Solos 4-5)
8. Springsville (Overdubbed Solos 6-9)
9. Springsville (Issued Overdubbed Solo)
10. Miles Ahead (Issued Overdubbed Solo)
11. Miles Ahead (Overdubbed Solo)
12. I Don't Wanna Be Kissed (By Anyone But You) (Overdubbed Solo 1)
13. I Don't Wanna Be Kissed (By Anyone But You) (Overdubbed Solo 2)
14. I Don't Wanna Be Kissed (By Anyone But You) (Overdubbed Solo)
15. I Don't Wanna Be Kissed (By Anyone But You (Overdubbed Solo 9)
16. I Don't Wanna Be Kissed (By Anyone But You) (Overdubbed Solo 19 & 19c)
17. Miles Ahead (Mono Master)
18. Gone (Rehearsal Sequence)
19. Gone, Gone, Gone (Rehearsal Sequence)
20. Studio Discussion
21. Bess, You Is My Woman Now
22. It Ain't Necessarily So
23. Oh Bess, Oh Where's My Bess
24. I Loves You, Porgy (Rehearsal Sequence)
25. There's A Boat That's Leaving Soon For New York (Remake)
26. My Man's Gone Now (Remake Take)
27. Song Of Our Country (Take 9)
28. Concierto De Aranjuez (Adagio) (Rehearsal)
29. Concierto De Aranjuez (Adagio) (Alternate Ending)
30. Pause Track

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #58737 in Music
• Released on: 2004-05-31
• Number of discs: 6
• Formats: Box set, Original recording remastered
• Dimensions: 1.46 pounds

From Amazon.com
From their first work together on the Birth of the Cool sessions in 1949, Miles Davis and Gil Evans forged a unique relationship as great soloist and brilliant arranger. The real opportunity to explore their shared vision didn't come until 1957, however, when Davis had forged a relationship with a major record label able to support it. Though a product of the big-band tradition, Evans was never limited by sectional voicings and riffs. He had an interest in unusual instrumentation and a talent for creating subtle mixes of distinct voices, adding French horns, oboe, bassoon, and harp to the conventional big band and thinning its saxophone, trumpet, and trombone sections. His arrangements for Davis are like settings for the finest jewels, whether he's creating rich, brass chords or adding only light percussion to the trumpeter's solitary lament. Together Davis and Evans produced three orchestral masterpieces: Miles Ahead (1957), Porgy and Bess (1958), and Sketches of Spain (1960). They're all here, along with less-inspired, later projects like the Quiet Nights bossa nova album. What most distinguishes the box set is the archival work of Phil Schaap, who has compiled a wealth of alternate takes. They reveal much about the processes that went into these works, including extensive editing and even some overdubbing. As early as 1957, Evans and Davis were already beginning to use the studio itself as an integral part of their music. --Stuart Broomer

Chronique amazon.fr
De tous les arrangeurs de jazz, Gil Evans, qui commença sa carrière avec Claude Thornhill, est certainement l'un des plus brillants. Un de ceux qui ont le mieux su offrir aux solistes un écrin à leur juste valeur, singulier par les couleurs des timbres qu'il sollicitait (le cor et le tuba n'y sont pas pour rien), engendrant des alliages magiques aux architectures complexes. La collaboration entre le trompettiste Miles Davis et Gil Evans commença véritablement en 1949, par les sessions d'enregistrement du nonette de Miles sur The Birth Of The Cool qu'il contribua à mettre au point. Toutefois, ce sont des collaborations suivantes dont rend principalement compte cet indispensable coffret (à l'exclusion des enregistrements publics comme l'indique le titre), amorcées en 1957 avec Miles Ahead. Suivront, parmi les meilleurs albums qu'ils produisirent ensemble, Porgy And Bess et, surtout, Sketches Of Spain (1960), si caractéristique de la signature mélancolique de Gil Evans. Quiet Nights, plus tard, dans un style très influencé par la bossa nova, sera renié par ses auteurs, malgré d'évidentes qualités. L'ensemble, issu du méticuleux archivage réalisé par Phil Shaap, doit être salué comme il se doit, d'autant plus qu'il est riche de quantité de prises alternatives qui permettent d'apprécier le travail de ces deux créateurs hors norme. Deux suites inédites, "TheTime Of The Barracudas" de 1963 et "Falling Water" de 1968 justifient à elles seules l'acquisition de cette somme. Notons que, par la suite, Gil Evans, comme Miles, s'intéressera à l'électricité, enrichissant sa palette orchestrale de sons de synthétiseur. Paradoxalement, aucune collaboration n'aura lieu au cours de cette période (fin des années 60-années 70). On peut se faire une idée de la direction prise alors par Gil Evans en écoutant l'album Svengali. --Philippe Robert

Album Description
Limited edition boxset comes complete with a 48 page full color booklet. Packaged in DVD sized Ecolbooks, the width of a normal CD, making them ideal for both in-store & home racking. THE COMPLETE COLUMBIA STUDIO RECORDINGS compiles all of Miles Davis' collaborations with composer/arranger Gil Evans. Included are the original and alternate versions of the four albums that Davis and Evans made together--MILES AHEAD, PORGY AND BESS, SKETCHES OF SPAIN and QUIET NIGHTS--as well as various outtakes and unreleased tracks. More than half of the material is previously unreleased.