Miles Davis: The Complete Columbia Album Collection
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Released | November 24, 2009 |
Recorded | 1949–1985 |
Genre | Jazz |
Label | Sony Legacy |
Producer | Daniel Baumgarten, Richard Seidet |
Miles Davis: The Complete Columbia Album Collection is a box set by jazz musician Miles Davis, released in 2009. It contains all the official releases on the Columbia Records label. The box set consists of 70 CD's and 1 DVD.[1]
Contents
The box set contains fifty-two albums on seventy CD's spanning Davis' career on Columbia Records from 1949 to 1985. All albums feature their original tracklists, while some use various deluxe reissue tracklists when available. A few albums received never-before-released It also includes a never-before-released CD of the full Isle of Wight 1970 concert, a bonus DVD of the Miles Davis Quintet performing live in Europe in 1967. It also contains a 250-page book with annotations on every album and a biographical essay by magazine editor Frederic Goaty.
The albums were ordered in the box set by time of recording (as opposed to album release date); this order is reflected in the list below.
- In Paris Festival Int'l de Jazz May, 1949 (1977)ae
- 'Round About Midnight (1957)f
- Circle in the Round (1979)c
- Miles Ahead (1957)f
- Milestones (1958)f
- 1958 Miles (1974)c
- Miles Davis at Newport (1964)af
- Porgy and Bess (1959)f
- Jazz at the Plaza (1973)af
- Kind of Blue (1959)f
- Sketches of Spain (1960)f
- Directions (1981)c
- Someday My Prince Will Come (1961)f
- In Person Friday Night At The Blackhawk (1961)af
- In Person Saturday Night At The Blackhawk (1961)af
- At Carnegie Hall (1962)af
- Quiet Nights (1963)e
- Seven Steps to Heaven (1963)f
- In Europe (1964)af
- My Funny Valentine (1965)af
- Four & More (1966)af
- Miles in Tokyo (1969)af
- Miles in Berlin (1965)af
- E.S.P. (1965)f
- At Plugged Nickel, Vol. 1 & 2 (1976)ae
- Miles Smiles (1967)f
- Sorcerer (1967)f
- Nefertiti (1968)f
- Water Babies (1976)cf
- Miles in the Sky (1968)f
- Filles de Kilimanjaro (1968)f
- In a Silent Way (1969)f
- Bitches Brew (1970)f
- Big Fun (1974)cf
- A Tribute to Jack Johnson (1971)f
- Live at the Fillmore East, March 7, 1970: It's About that Time (2001)a
- Black Beauty: Miles Davis at Fillmore West (1973)a
- At Fillmore (1970)a
- Isle of Wight (2009)ad
- Live-Evil (1971)bf
- On the Corner (1972)f
- In Concert (1973)a
- Dark Magus (1977)a
- Get Up with It (1974)cf
- Agharta (1975)a
- Pangaea (1976)a
- The Man with the Horn (1981)
- We Want Miles (1982)ae
- Star People (1983)
- Decoy (1984)
- You're Under Arrest (1985)
- Aura (1989)f
^a This album is a live recording.
^b This album is partially a live recording.
^c This album is a compilation album.
^d This album is exclusive to the box set and was never released before.
^e This album has been expanded exclusively for this box set.
^f This album includes bonus tracks included on previous reissues.
Production
- Box Set Producer - Daniel Baumgarten and Richard Seidet
- Boxset Supervision/A&R - Steve Berkowitz
- Mastering Engineer - Mark Wilder and Maria at Battery Studio, NYC
- Mastering coordination - Donna Kloepfer
- Project Direction - Adam Farber and Zak Profera
- Archival Research - Michael Panico and Tom Tierney
- Tape Research - Matt Kelly
- Art Direction and Design - Bruno Lefèvre, Christophe Javault and Juliette Carrico / Objectif Lune [Paris]
- English translation - Michelle Sommers and Diane Cousineau
- Editorial Supervision [English translation] - Jeremy Holiday and Sheri Miller
References
- ^ "The Complete Miles Davis Columbia Album Collection". Miles Davis. Sony Music Entertainment. Retrieved 12 March 2020.