The Complete Miles Davis Featuring John Coltrane (6-disc) CD Set

Miles Davis & John Coltrane: The Complete Columbia Recordings 1955-1961: This 6-CD box set (released in 2000) won two Grammy Awards, Best Boxed Recording Package and Best Album Notes. Focus is on the evolution of Miles’ so-called “first great quintet,” comprising John Coltrane (tenor saxophone), Red Garland (piano), Paul Chambers (bass), and Philly Joe Jones (drums), with important contributions by Cannonball Adderley (alto saxophone), Bill Evans (piano), Wynton Kelly (piano), and Jimmy Cobb (drums) –these sessions encompass the music for the LPs ‘Round About Midnight, Milestones, Jazz Track, Kind Of Blue, Someday My Prince Will Come, Miles & Monk At Newport, Jazz At the Plaza, and much more.

Tracklist:

DISC 1

1. Two Bass Hit (alternate take) 3:18
2. Two Bass Hit 3:45
3. Ah-Leu-Cha (alternate take) 5:49
4. Ah-Leu-Cha 5:53
5. Ah-Leu-Cha (take 5) 5:22
6. Little Melonae 7:18
7. Budo (Alternate Take) 5:01
8. Budo 4:14
9. Dear Old Stockholm 7:49
10. Bye Bye Blackbird (alternate take) 7:48
11. Bye Bye Blackbird 7:53
12. Tadd's Delight 4:26
13. Tadd's Delight (alternate take) 4:18

CONTINUED BELOW...

DISC 2

1. Dear Old Stockholm (alternate take) 6:39
2. All of You (alternate take) 7:29
3. All of You 7:01
4. Sweet Sue, Just You (first version) 4:21
5. Sweet Sue, Just You (false start with discussion by Leonard Bernstein & Miles Davis) 1:56
6. Sweet Sue, Just You (alternate take) 3:29
7. Sweet Sue, Just You 3:39
8. Miles Davis Comments (Album Version) 0:27
9. 'Round Midnight 5:55
10. Two Bass Hit (alternate take) 4:30
11. Two Bass Hit 5:11
12. Billy Boy (Album Version) 7:10
13. Straight, No Chaser (alternate take) 10:29

DISC 3

1. Straight, No Chaser (Album Version) 10:35
2. Milestones (alternate take) 5:59
3. Milestones 5:43
4. Sid's Ahead 12:59
5. Little Melonae (Album Version) 7:51
6. Dr. Jackle (Album Version) 5:46
7. On Green Dolphin Street 9:48
8. Fran-Dance (alternate take) 5:50
9. Fran-Dance 5:47
10. Stella By Starlight 4:43

DISC 4

1. Love For Sale 11:46
2. Freddie Freeloader (false start) 1:25
3. Freddie Freeloader (Album Version) 9:43
4. So What 9:21
5. Blue In Green (Album Version) 5:37
6. Flamenco Sketches (alternate take) 9:31
7. Miles Davis Comments (Album Version) 0:41
8. Flamenco Sketches (Album Version) 9:22
9. All Blues (Album Version) 11:32

DISC 5

1. Some Day My Prince Will Come (Album Version) 9:03
2. Teo 9:32
3. Introduction By Willis Connover (Album Version) 2:16
4. Ah-Leu-Cha (Album Version) 5:53
5. Straight, No Chaser (Album Version) 8:48
6. Fran-Dance (Album Version) 7:14
7. Two Bass Hit (Album Version) 4:11
8. Bye Bye Blackbird (Live at the Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, RI - July 1958) 9:10
9. The Theme (Live at the Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, RI - July 1958) 2:49

DISC 6

1. If I Were A Bell (live) 8:31
2. Oleo (live) 10:39
3. My Funny Valentine (live) 10:19
4. Straight, No Chaser (live) 10:57