Miles Davis Songography

With Birth of the Cool, Miles Davis distilled a new tonal palette for jazz. As early as 1954, Davis reacted to the escalating chordal complexity of hard bop by fashioning an evocative blues based on a simple scalar pattern ("Swing ...

Track Listing: So What; Round About Midnight; Walking; Straight, No Chaser; Bye, Bye, Blackbird; Embraceable You; All of You; No Blues; Scapple from the Apple;

This fascinating release comprises live recordings made at the end of 1956, when Miles accepted an offer to tour Europe with a formation called the "Birdland All Stars", which also included Lester Young and the Modern Jazz Quartet, along with ...

Initial pressings of SEVEN STEPS are packaged with a deluxe metal spine. Also includes a 92-page booklet with rare photos, complete discography and essays by Michael Cuscuna and Bob Blumenthal. All tracks have been digitally mastered using 24-bit technology. In the 1960s, trumpeter ...

Track Listing: DISC 1: Now's the Time; Jeru; Compulsion; Tempus Fugit; Walkin'; 'Round Midnight; Bye Bye Blackbird; New Rhumba; Generique; Summertime; So What; Pan Piper, The; Someday My Prince Will Come; DISC 2: My Funny Valentine; E.S.P.; Nefertiti; Petits Machins; ...

Recorded in New York, New York on January 21 & April 22, 1949 and on March 9, 1950. Originally released on Capitol (762). Includes liner notes by Pete Welding & Gerry Mulligan. As Miles Davis came to transcend the influence of ...

These ten tracks, taken from radio broadcasts from the legendary Birdland in 1951, represent a particularly fruitful period in Miles Davis' development as a bandleader. There are three different broadcasts included here; two comprising six cuts in total were from ...

With Birth of the Cool, Miles Davis distilled a new tonal palette for jazz. As early as 1954, Davis reacted to the escalating chordal complexity of hard bop by fashioning an evocative blues based on a simple scalar pattern ("Swing ...

THE CLASSIC PRESTIGE SESSIONS 1951-1956 collects all of the sides recorded by trumpeter Miles Davis and tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins for Prestige during their time together as young players in New York City. Both musicians were just past their formative ...

When John Coltrane split with Miles Davis in 1960, the trumpeter went through many different personnel combinations. Those changes included using saxophonists Sam Rivers or George Coleman before settling on Wayne Shorter, and discovering Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, and Tony ...

Recorded in New York, New York on January 21 & April 22, 1949 and on March 9, 1950. Originally released on Capitol (762). Includes liner notes by Pete Welding & Gerry Mulligan. As Miles Davis came to transcend the influence of ...

When John Coltrane split with Miles Davis in 1960, the trumpeter went through many different personnel combinations. Those changes included using saxophonists Sam Rivers or George Coleman before settling on Wayne Shorter, and discovering Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, and Tony ...

With Birth of the Cool, Miles Davis distilled a new tonal palette for jazz. As early as 1954, Davis reacted to the escalating chordal complexity of hard bop by fashioning an evocative blues based on a simple scalar pattern ("Swing ...

Track Listing: DISC 1: Now's the Time; Jeru; Compulsion; Tempus Fugit; Walkin'; 'Round Midnight; Bye Bye Blackbird; New Rhumba; Generique; Summertime; So What; Pan Piper, The; Someday My Prince Will Come; DISC 2: My Funny Valentine; E.S.P.; Nefertiti; Petits Machins; ...

This concert is available in a complete two-disc set and is best heard that way. Hearing only half or part distorts impact and understanding. ~ Ron Wynn 2cds-At The Blackhawk,San Fran Cisco (Complete) Liner Note Author: Ralph J. Gleason. Recording information: Blackhawk, San ...

This concert is available in a complete two-disc set and is best heard that way. Hearing only half or part distorts impact and understanding. ~ Ron Wynn 2cds-At The Blackhawk,San Fran Cisco (Complete) Liner Note Author: Ralph J. Gleason. Recording information: Blackhawk, San ...

Recorded in New York, New York on January 21 & April 22, 1949 and on March 9, 1950. Originally released on Capitol (762). Includes liner notes by Pete Welding & Gerry Mulligan. As Miles Davis came to transcend the influence of ...

THE CLASSIC PRESTIGE SESSIONS 1951-1956 collects all of the sides recorded by trumpeter Miles Davis and tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins for Prestige during their time together as young players in New York City. Both musicians were just past their formative ...

When John Coltrane split with Miles Davis in 1960, the trumpeter went through many different personnel combinations. Those changes included using saxophonists Sam Rivers or George Coleman before settling on Wayne Shorter, and discovering Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, and Tony ...

Track Listing: DISC 1: Now's the Time; Jeru; Compulsion; Tempus Fugit; Walkin'; 'Round Midnight; Bye Bye Blackbird; New Rhumba; Generique; Summertime; So What; Pan Piper, The; Someday My Prince Will Come; DISC 2: My Funny Valentine; E.S.P.; Nefertiti; Petits Machins; ...

Recorded in New York, New York on January 21 & April 22, 1949 and on March 9, 1950. Originally released on Capitol (762). Includes liner notes by Pete Welding & Gerry Mulligan. As Miles Davis came to transcend the influence of ...

82 early tracks including classic encounters with Charlie Parker, the immortal 'Birth of the Cool' sessions and work with Sarah Vaughan. Four standard jewelcases housed in a CD box. 2001 release. Recorded between 1945 & 1950. Includes liner notes by Joop ...

Initial pressings of SEVEN STEPS are packaged with a deluxe metal spine. Also includes a 92-page booklet with rare photos, complete discography and essays by Michael Cuscuna and Bob Blumenthal. All tracks have been digitally mastered using 24-bit technology. In the 1960s, trumpeter ...

Recorded in New York, New York on January 21, 1949; WOR Studios, New York, New York on May 9, 1952 and April 20, 1953; the Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey on March 6, 1954 and March 9, 1958. Recorded between ...

Miles Davis was part of a circle of musicians drawn to arranger Gil Evans' charts for Claude Thornhill's Orchestra--his lovely palette of woodwinds and deep brass, his way of voicing chords and accenting rhythms. Beginning with their innovative collaboration on ...