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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. Serpent's Tooth, The - (take 1)
3. Serpent's Tooth, The - (take 2)
4. 'Round 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. Man I Love, The - (take 1)
6. Man I Love, The - (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. Night in Tunisia, A
4. Gal in Calico, A
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. Theme, The
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. Theme, The - (take 1)
10. Theme, The - (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
Album Notes
Personnel: Miles Davis (trumpet, piano); Lee Konitz, Jackie McLean, David Schildkraut (alto saxophone); Sonny Rollins, Charlie Parker, Al Cohn, Zoot Sims, Lucky Thompson, John Coltrane (tenor saxophone); Bennie Green, Sonny Truitt, J.J. Johnson (trombone); Milt Jackson (vibraphone); John Lewis, Sal Mosca, Walter Bishop Jr., Charles Mingus, Horace Silver, Thelonious Monk, Red Garland, Ray Bryant, Tommy Flanagan (piano); Billy Bauer (guitar); Percy Heath, Arnold Fishkin, Tommy Potter, Leonard Gaskin, Oscar Pettiford, Paul Chambers (bass); Roy Haynes, Max Roach, Art Blakey, Philly Joe Jones, Kenny Clarke, Art Taylor (drums).
Producers: Bob Weinstock, Ira Gitler.
Compilation producer: Orrin Keepnews.
Engineers include: Les Cahan, Doug Hawkins, Rudy Van Gelder.
Recorde at Apex Studios, New York, New York between January 17 and October 5, 1951; WOR Studios, New York, New York on January 30 and May 19, 1953; Beltone Studios, New York, New York on February 19, 1953 and March 15, 1954; the Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey between April 3, 1954 and October 26, 1956. Includes liner notes by Dan Morgenstern and Orrin Keepnews.
Digitally remastered by Kirk Felton (Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, California).
CHRONICLE: THE COMPLETE PRESTIGE RECORDINGS isn't a luxury, it's a necessity for fans of Miles Davis. Which isn't to say that listeners can't be perfectly happy with the individual OJC (Original Jazz Classics) reissues of his original recordings. It's just that when Miles first began recording, vinyl discs were moving from the 10" format to the modern 12" long playing, full length format which soon became an industry standard.
As a result, music from one session might very well be divided among several vinyl issues. So it came to pass that the famous Christmas Eve, 1954 session with Monk, Milt Jackson, Percy Heath and Kenny Clarke was split up and released on two separate discs, BAGS' GROOVE and MILES DAVIS AND THE MODERN JAZZ GIANTS. For the true devotee wishing to experience the evolution of Miles' glorious tone, CHRONICLE presents his 1951-1956 sessions in chronological order.
There are two notable exceptions: his 1955 date with Mingus and Elvin Jones, BLUE MOODS (originally recorded for the bassist's Debut label) and another 1955 date (session 15, with Art Taylor, Tommy Flanagan and Sonny Rollins) are presented out of order so that you can hear the uninterrupted development of Davis' classic Coltrane-Red Garland-Paul Chambers-Philly Joe Jones Quintet. The group's final two marathon 1956 sessions fulfilled Miles' contractual commitments, allowed him to sign with Columbia and subsequently yielded WORKIN', STEAMIN', RELAXIN' and COOKIN'. CHRONICLE features Davis with some of the greatest rhythm sections in jazz on definitive performances of "Dig," "Compulsion" (with Charlie Parker and Sonny Rollins on tenor), "Four," "Walkin'" and "Swing Spring." Essential.
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