Miles Davis (1926-1991) was the only musician of the 20th Century to shape eight, clearly defined movements over the history of an art form. During a 30-year tenure for Columbia Records, he released over 50 extraordinary albums which were at the very vanguard of the music world. This incredibly fertile period on Columbia Records (1955-1985) would constitute the core of his life's work and come to embody The Genius of Miles Davis.
Between 1996-2007, Sony Music Entertainment released 8 deluxe Miles Davis box sets documenting in detail each of these very distinct musical movements. Each box came fitted with a custom-etched metal spine and a substantial book full of sweeping essays, testimonials from musicians, insightful analysis, discographical data, powerful, rarely-seen imagery, and endless amounts of previously unreleased music--all of which was meticulously remastered by Sony's leading engineers. This unparalleled series of box sets has been called the most ambitious reissue campaign in the history of the music industry, and received no less than 8 Grammy Awards.
The Genius of Miles Davis presents all of these collections, which are no longer available.
Miles Davis had just signed to Columbia Records and his star was fast on the rise. Assembling groups which would feature John Coltrane, Bill Evans, Cannonball Adderley, and Jimmy Cobb among others, it was during this period that Miles would create "the greatest jazz album of all time" - the epochal Kind Of Blue.
Two Bass Hit (Alternate Take)
Two Bass Hit
Ah-Leu-Cha (Alternate Take)
Ah-Leu-Cha
Ah-Leu-Cha (Take 5)
Little Melonae
Budo (Alternate Take)
Budo
Dear Old Stockholm
Bye Bye Blackbird (Alternate Take)
Bye Bye Blackbird
Tadd’s Delight
Tadd’s Delight (Alternative Take)
Dear Old Stockholm (Alternate Take)
All Of You (Alternate Take)
All Of You
Sweet Sue, Just You (First Version)
Sweet Sue, Just You (False Start with discussion by Leonard Bernstein and Miles Davis)
Sweet Sue, Just You (Alternate Take)
Sweet Sue, Just You
Miles Davis Comments
‘Round Midnight
Two Bass Hit (Alternate Take)
Two Bass Hit
Billy Boy
Straight, No Chaser (Alternate Take)
Straight, No Chaser
Milestones (Alternate Take)
Milestones
Sid’s Ahead
Little Melonae
Dr. Jackle
On Green Dolphin
Fran-Dance (Alternate Take)
Fran-Dance
Stella By Starlight
Love For Sale
Freddie Freeloader (False Start)
Freddie Freeloader
So What
Blue Green
Flamenco Sketches (Alternate Take)
Miles Davis Comments
Flamenco Sketches
All Blues
Someday My Prince Will Come
Teo
Introduction By Willis Conover
Ah-Leu-Cha
Straight, No Chaser
Fran-Dance
Two Bass
Bye Bye Blackbird
The Theme
If I Were A Bell
Oleo
My Funny Valentine
Straight, No Chaser
Gil Evans, the great arranger, had fallen in love with Miles Davis's haunting and melancholy, yet terribly seductive sound. He would craft a series of impeccable arrangements which were tailored to this unique sound. These recordings would take their place among the most important collaborations in all of music. Among them, the timeless masterpieces Sketches Of Spain, Porgy & Bess, and Miles Ahead.
Springsville
The Maids of Cadiz
My Duke
My Ship
Miles Ahead
Blues For Pablo
New Rhumba
The Meaning of Blues
Lament
I Don’t Wanna Be Kissed (By Anyone But You)
Springsville (Remake Take 7)
The Maids Of Cadiz (Take 2)
The Duke (Take 11)
My Ship (Take 1)
Miles Ahead (Take 4)
Blues For Pablo (Take 1)
New Rhumba (Take 5)
The Meaning Of Blues
Lament (rehearsal take)
I Don’t Wanna Be Kissed (By Anyone But You)
Pause Track*
Buzzard Song
Bess, You Is My Woman Now
Gone
Gone, Gone, Gone
Summertime
Oh Bess, Oh Where’s My Bess
Prayer (Oh Doctor Jesus)
Fishermen, Strawberry And Devil Crab
My Man’s Gone Now
It Ain’t Necessarily So
Here Come De Honey Man
I Love You, Porgy
There’s A Boat That’s Leaving Soon For New York
Gone
Summertime (Take 2)
Prayer (Oh Doctor Jesus)
I Love You, Porgy
There’s A Boat That’s Leaving Soon For New York (Take 2)
Oh Bess, Oh Where’s My Bess (Take 5)
Gone (Take 4)
Pause Track
Conceirto De Aranjuez (Adagio)
Will O’ Wisp
The Pan Piper
Saeta
Solea
Song Of Our Country
Saeta (Full Version)
The Pan Piper (Take 1)
Conceirto De Aranjuez (Adagio) (Part One, Alternate Take)
Conceirto De Aranjuez (Adagio) (Part Two, Alternate Take)
Song Of Our Country (Take 14)
Pause Track
Song No. 2
Once Upon A Summertime
Aos Pes Da Cruz
Song No.1
Wait Till You See Her
Corcovado
Blue Xmas
Nothing Like You
Devil May Care
The Time Of The Barracudas
Falling Water (Take 4)
Falling Water (Take 6)
Falling Water (Take 8)
Falling Water (Take 9)
Springsville (Take 5)
The Maids Of Cadiz (Take 11)
The Maids Of Cadiz (Take 11, Insert 1)
Lament (Medley Take 2)
The Duke (Take 1)
I Don’t Wanna Be Kissed (By Anyone But You)
Springsville (Rehearsal Sequence)
Springsville (Rehearsal With Piano)
The Maids Of Cadiz (Take 9)
The Maids Of Cadiz (Take 10)
The Maids Of Cadiz (Rehearsal Sequence)
Count Off For Duke (Take 3)
The Duke (Take 8)
The Duke (Piano Take 3)
My Ship (Take 6)
Miles Ahead (Rehearsal Sequence)
Miles Ahead (Take 12)
Miles Ahead (Take 15) Studio Discussion
Studio Discussion
My Ship (Take 7)
Blues For Pablo (Rehearsal Sequence)
Miles Ahead (Piano Insert-Mono)
Lament (Take 1)
New Rhumba (Take 2)
I Don’t Wanna Be Kissed (By Anyone But You) (Piano Take 4)
Pause Track
Studio Discussions
Springsville (Take 8 Without Overdubs)
Studio Discussions
Miles Ahead (Take 11 Without Overdubs)
I Don’t Wanna Be Kissed (By Anyone But You) (Take 3 without overdubs)
Springsville (Overdub Take 1)
Springsville (Overdubbed solos 4-5)
Springsville (Overdubbed solos 6-9)
Springsville (Issued Overdubbed Solo)
Miles Ahead (Issued Overdubbed Solo)
Miles Ahead (Issued Overdubbed Solo)
I Don’t Wanna Be Kissed (By Anyone But You) (Overdubbed Solo 1)
I Don’t Wanna Be Kissed (By Anyone But You) (Overdubbed Solo 2)
I Don’t Wanna Be Kissed (By Anyone But You) ( Overdubbed Solo 4)
I Don’t Wanna Be Kissed (By Anyone But You) (Overdubbed Solo 8)
I Don’t Wanna Be Kissed (By Anyone But You) ( Overdubbed Solo 19 & 19C)
Miles Ahead (mono master)
Gone (Rehearsal Sequence)
Gone, Gone, Gone (Rehearsal Sequence)
Studio Discussion
Bess, You Is My Woman Now (Rehearsal Take)
It Ain’t Necessarily So (Take 1)
Oh Bess, Oh Where’s My Bess (Take 3)
I Love You, Porgy (Rehearsal Sequence)
There’s A Boat That’s Leaving Soon For New York (Remake)
My Man’s Gone Now (Remake Take)
Song Of Our Country (Take 9)
Concierto De Aranjuez (Adagio) (Rehearsal)
Concierto De Aranjuez (Adagio) (Alternate ending)
Pause Track
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Joshua
I Fall In Love Too Easily
Baby Won’t You Please Come Home
So Near, So Far
Basin Street Blues
Seven Steps To Heaven (Take 3)
Seven Steps To Heaven (Take 5)
Summer Night
Seven Steps To Heaven (Rehearsal Take)
Seven Steps To Heaven
So Near, So Far
Joshua
Introduction by Andrew Francis
Autumn Leaves
Milestones
I Thought About You
Joshua
All Of You
Walkin’
Bye Bye Blackbird
Bye Bye (Theme)
Introduction by Mort Fega
Autumn Leaves
So What
Stella By Starlight
Walkin’
All Of You
Go-Go (Theme And Annoucement)
Introduction By Billy Taylor
All Blues
My Funny Valentine
Joshua
I Thought About You
Four
Seven Steps To Heaven
There Is No Greater Love
Go-Go (Theme and Re-Introduction)
Introduction by Teruso Isono
If I Were A Bell
My Funny Valentine
So What
Walkin’
All Of You
Go-Go (Theme)
The final and eighth box set in this collection finds Miles shifting his musical direction yet again. Miles plunges into the world of deep, hard, grooves and constantly shifting rhythms, taking his funk right to the streets. With distorted guitar lines, percolating, complex rhythms, and two-note bass riffs, On The Corner has been called "the most street album ever recorded by a jazz musician."
On The Corner (Unedited Master)
On The Corner (Take 4)
One And One (Unedited Master)
Helen Butte/Mr. Freedom X (Unedited Master)
Jabali
Billy Preston
The Hen 12:55
Big Fun/Holly-Wuud (Take 2)
Big Fun/Holly-Wuud (Take 3)
Peace
Mr. Foster
Maiysha
Mtume
Mtume (Take 11)
Hip-Skip
What They Do
Minnie
Red China Blues
On the Corner/New York Girl/Thinkin’ Of One Thing And Doin’ Another/Vote For Miles
Black Satin
One And One
Helen Butte/Mr Freedom X
Big Fun
Holly-Wuud
Miles and the Young Lions! The Second Great Quintet. In 1965, Miles Davis, for the first time in his life, assembled a band in which he was surrounded by younger musicians who he would propel into stardom, and who would push Miles into new musical frontiers. Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, and Tony Williams would fast become stars, and write the future of jazz from this point forward. Considered one of the greatest bands to ever exist, they would create the modern masterpieces, E.S.P., Miles Smiles, Nefertiti, and Sorcerer, among others.
E.S.P.
R.J.
Eighty-One
Little One
Iris
Agitation
Mood
Circle
Orbits
Dolores
Freedom Jazz Dance
Gingerbread Boy
Footprints
Limbo (Alternate Take)
Limbo
Vonetta
Masqualero (Alternate Take)
Masqualero
The Sorcerer
Prince Of Darkness
Pee Wee
Water Babies
Nefertiti
Capricorn
Madness (rehearsal)
Hand Jive (First Alternative Take)
Hand Jive (Second Alternative Take)
Hand Jive
Madness (Alternate Take)
Madness
Sweet Pea
Fall
Pinocchio (Alternate Take)
Pinocchio
Riot
Thisness
Circle In The Round
Water On The Pond
Fun
Teo’s Bag (Alternate Take)
Teo’s Bag
Paraphernalia
I Have A Dream (rehearsal)
Speak Like A Child (rehearsal)
Sanctuary
Side Car I
Side Car II
Country Son (Alternate Take)
Black Comedy (Alternate Take)
Black Comedy
Stuff
Petits Machins
Tout De Suite (Alternate Take)
Tout De Suite
Filles De Kilimanjaro
Miles Davis was asked to write the soundtrack to a documentary film on the first African American heavyweight champion - the proud and flamboyant Jack Johnson--a figure who much like Miles, was outspoken, defiant, loved women and fast cars, and was simply the greatest. If Bitches Brew incorporated the rock and funk of the time, Jack Johnson put it front and center. Miles Davis, a boxer himself, created an album of ferocious, unrelenting power which perfectly captured the fighting style of the champion. This box set documents the creation of this masterpiece.
Willie Nelson (Take 2)
Willie Nelson (Take 3)
Willie Nelson (Insert 1)
Willie Nelson (Insert 2)
Willie Nelson (Remake Take 1)
Willie Nelson (Remake Take 2)
Johnny Bratton (Take 4)
Johnny Bratton (Insert 1)
Johnny Bratton (Insert 1)
Archie Moore
Go Ahead John (Part One)
Go Ahead John (Part Two A)
Go Ahead John (Part Two B)
Go Ahead John (Part Two C)
Go Ahead John (Part One Remake)
Duran (Take 4)
Duran (Take 6)
Sugar Ray
Right Off (Take 10)
Right Off (Take 10A)
Right Off (Take 11)
Right Off (Take 12)
Yesternow (Take 16)
Yesternow (New Take 4)
Honky Tonk (Take 2)
Honky Tonk (Take 5)
Ali (Take 3)
Ali (Take 4)
Konda
Nem Um Talvez (Take 17)
Nem Um Talvez (Take 19)
Little High People (Take 7)
Little High People (Take 8)
Nem Um Talvez (Take 3)
Nem Um Talvez (Take 4A)
Selim (Take 4B)
Little Church (Take 7)
Little Church (Take 10)
There was nothing ever created like Bitches Brew before it or after it. Bitches Brew featured new, young stars and the provocative, fiery, and passionate playing of Miles Davis. Another masterpiece far beyond category, it established Miles Davis as an artist who could assimilate the sounds of jazz, Sly Stone, Carlos Santana, and Karlheinz Stockhausen in creating something wholly new. And, it appealed to the masses of young rockers who were hearing something vaguely familiar, yet completely unique and powerful.
Miles Runs The Voodoo Down
Sanctuary
Great Expectations
Orange Lady
Yaphet
Corrado
Trevere
The Big Green Serpent
The Little Blue Frog (alt)
The Little Blue Frog (mst)
Lonely Fire
Guinnevere
Feio
Double Image
Recollections
Take It Or Leave It
Double Image
In 1969, Miles Davis recorded yet another masterpiece. With a completely new sound, concept, and band, In A Silent Way was an ethereal, mysterious, and shimmeringly beautiful album, and would point Miles in a new direction--a direction he would follow until the end of his life--The Electric Miles! This box set shines light on the musical process and methodology involved in the making of this masterpiece.
Mademoiselle Mabry
Frelon Brun
Two Faced
Dual Mr. Anthony Tillmon Williams Process
Splash
Splashdown
Ascent
Directions I
Directions II
Shhh/Peaceful
In A Silent Way (Rehearsal)
In A Silent Way
It’s About That Time
The Ghetto Walk
Early Minor
Shhh/Peaceful (LP Version)
In A Silent Way/It’s About That Time (LP Version)
In A Silent Way
It’s About That Time
In A Silent Way
La colletion est présentée dans une réplique exacte et numérotée de l'étui à trompette de Miles Davis.
43 CD et 384 enregistrements retraçant en détail tous les périodes des années Columbia de Miles Davis.
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Lithographie inédite d'un des tableaux les plus saisissants de Miles.
La réplique exacte de l'embout "Gustat" Heim 2 utilisé par Miles pendant sa carrière.
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