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The Best of Miles Davis and John Coltrane 1955-1961 acts as a single-disc taster for the six-CD box set Miles Davis with John Coltrane--The Complete Columbia Recordings. It's also an introduction to the original albums of this period, all of them Miles Davis classics. The quality of the original albums made track selection a difficult process--a fact admitted in the booklet notes. Coltrane joined the new Miles quintet in 1955, and this disc's opening "Two Bass Hit" is the very first take from their first session. "Dear Old Stockholm", "Bye Bye Blackbird" and "'Round Midnight" are followed
The Best of Miles Davis and John Coltrane 1955-1961 acts as a single-disc taster for the six-CD box set Miles Davis with John Coltrane--The Complete Columbia Recordings. It's also an introduction to the original albums of this period, all of them Miles Davis classics. The quality of the original albums made track selection a difficult process--a fact admitted in the booklet notes. Coltrane joined the new Miles quintet in 1955, and this disc's opening "Two Bass Hit" is the very first take from their first session. "Dear Old Stockholm", "Bye Bye Blackbird" and "'Round Midnight" are followed by the disc's only alternate take, "Straight, No Chaser", introducing the expanded sextet line-up for 1958's Milestones, with Julian "Cannonball" Adderley on alto saxophone. "So What" and "Blue In Green" (from Kind Of Blue) are followed by the title number of Some Day My Prince Will Come, when Coltrane briefly returned to the fold in 1961. This disc provides an excellent initiation, but its value depends upon whether the purchaser intends to acquire the original albums, or maybe even the complete boxed set. --Martin Longley
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Manufacturer: Sony Jazz
Release date: 15 April 2001
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 5099706109020
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