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Track Listing
1. Seven Steps to Heaven
2. All Blues
3. Someday My Prince Will Come
4. Walkin'
5. My Funny Valentine
6. E.S.P.
7. Round Midnight
8. So What
Album Notes
Also available in a 3-pack with DAVE BRUBECK'S GREATEST HITS and THELONIOUS MONK'S GREATEST HITS.
Personnel: Miles Davis (trumpet); Julian "Cannonball" Adderly (alto saxophone); George Coleman, John Coltrane, Hank Mobley, Wayne Shorter (tenor saxophone); Herbie Hancock, Wynton Kelly, Red Garland, Bill Evans (piano); Ron Carter, Paul Chambers (bass); Tony Williams, Philly Joe Jones, Jimmy Cobb (drums).
Producers: Irving Townsend, George Avakian, Teo Macero.
Reissue producer: Nedra Olds-Neal.
Recorded between September 10, 1956 and January 20, 1965. Originally released on Columbia (9808). Includes liner notes by George Frazier.
Digitally remastered by Mark Wilder and Rob Schwarz (Sony Music Studios, New York, New York).
GREATEST HITS? Well, this is a reissue of an LP that came out in 1969, when you might actually have seen Miles at the Fillmore West on a bill with the latest flower-power sensations from the Haight. In retrospect, GREATEST HITS does manage to tag a fair number of essential bases, without the burden of covering Davis' subsequent "electric period," though it misses some early choices (nothing from BIRTH OF THE COOL, for example) and sidesteps the late-'60s, proto-electric period as well.
While the material is not presented chronologically, it begins, in effect, in 1956, with "Round Midnight," a Red Garland/Paul Chambers/Philly Joe Jones rhythm section, and John Coltrane on tenor. Next, it's "So What," the de facto signature tune from KIND OF BLUE-Miles' real GREATEST HITS album and the one no listener should be without. The rest of the disc consists of material from 1963-64. The rhythm section of Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, and Tony Williams is in place, but only "E.S.P." (from early 1965) finds Wayne Shorter on tenor-completing what became known as the Second Classic Quintet. "Someday My Prince Will Come" and "Walkin'," both live, feature George Coleman on tenor.
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