Miles Davis - The Essential Miles Davis

Essential Compilation Album On Double LP!

Here is unquestionably the finest, and easily the most panoramic, Miles Davis mini-retrospective ever assembled. For the first time, a 2-disc set surveys the entirety of the continously innovative trumpeter-bandleader's monumental recording career, drawing from the catalogues of four of the labels for which he did his most significant work. Thus, the package begins in 1945, when a 20-year-old Davis, who had arrived in New York two years earlier to study at the prestigious Julliard School of Music, was on the bandstand with modern jazz fountainhead Charlie Parker, and concludes in 1984, his Harmon-muted horn still the very essence of lonely lyricism. The singular sound of Miles Davis...absolutely immortal.

Compilation album includes Nefertiti, 'Round Midnight, Black Satin and more from the catalog of the iconic jazz musician Miles Davis.

"At first glance, it would seem like an impossible task to summarize Miles Davis' career into a succinct double-disc set. Still, a career as multifaceted and ever-changing as Miles' winds up having a clear narrative, one that can be told by just the highlights, which is exactly what Columbia/Legacy's excellent double-disc Essential Miles Davis does. There are certainly major pieces and recordings missing, which is a deliberate move, since the compilers have chosen no more than one track per record (with the exception of two cuts from 'Round About Midnight), so there are huge portions of Kind of Blue, Sketches of Spain, E.S.P., and Bitches Brew absent, and such classic albums as Milestones, Miles Smiles, In a Silent Way, and A Tribute to Jack Johnson are entirely MIA. The funny thing is, in this context, they're not missed, because what's here -- which is how this compilation should be judged -- tells the story directly yet elegantly, touching on stages of his career..." - allmusic.com

Features:
• Double LP
• Mastered by Mark Wilder & Seth Foster at Sony Music Studios

Selections:
Side A:
1. Now's the Time
2. Jeru
3. 'Round Midnight
4. Bye Bye Blackbird
Side B:
1. Generique
2. Summertime
3. So What
4. The Pan Piper

Side C:
1. Someday My Prince Will Come
2. E.S.P.
3. Nefertiti
Side D:
1. Miles Runs the Voodoo Down
2. Black Satin
3. Time After Time