Miles Davis – Miles ’54: The Prestige Recordings

Description

Released to celebrate the 70th Anniversary of these sessions and the 75th Anniversary of Prestige Records, “Miles ’54” brings together 20 tracks recorded by the saxophone legend in 1954, across 4LPs.

Including cuts from the albums “Miles Davis with Sonny Rollins,” “Miles Davis Quintet,” “Miles Davis All Star Sextet,” and “Miles Davis Quartet” the album features Sonny Rollins, Charles Mingus, Horace Silver, Art Blakey, Thelonious Monk and more. Included are new liner notes by GRAMMY Award-winning music historian Ashley Kahn and session notes by Dan Morgenstern, with mastering by Paul Blakemore.

Tracklisting:

4LP

Side A
1.    Four
2.    Old Devil Moon
3.    Blue Haze
4.    Solar

Side B
1.    You Don’t Know What Love Is
2.    Love Me Or Leave Me
3.    I’ll Remember April

Side C
1.    Blue ‘N’ Boogie
2.    Walkin’

Side D
1.    Airegin
2.    Oleo
3.    But Not For Me (Take 1)
4.    But Not For Me (Take 2)

Side E
1.    Doxy
2.    Bags’ Groove (Take 1)

Side F
1.    Bags’ Groove (Take 2)
2.    Bemsha Swing

Side G
1.    Swing Spring

Side H
2.    The Man I Love (Take 1)
3.    The Man I Love (Take 2)

 2CD

Disc 1
1.    Four
2.    Old Devil Moon
3.    Blue Haze
4.    Solar
5.    You Don’t Know What Love Is
6.    Love Me Or Leave Me
7.    I’ll Remember April
8.    Blue ‘N’ Boogie
9.    Walkin’
10. Airegin
11. Oleo

Disc 2
1.    But Not For Me (Take 1)
2.    But Not For Me (Take 2)
3.    Doxy
4.    Bags’ Groove (Take 1)
5.    Bags’ Groove (Take 2)
6.    Bemsha Swing
7.    Swing Spring
8.    The Man I Love (Take 1)
9.    The Man I Love (Take 2)