Miles Davis

This release contains Miles Davis and Milt Jackson’s complete recorded collaborations both live and in studio. Although they were both seminal figures in the development of modern and cool jazz, their recordings together are limited to these few outstanding sessions.
As a bonus, two further examples of Miles playing with vibraphonists, including the complete album Blue Moods with Teddy Charles (which received a 5 star rating on Down Beat) and a ultra rare Birland broadcast with Don Elliot appearing here on CD for the first time ever!

CD 1. Bags’ Groove, 2. Bags’ Groove, 3. Bemsha Swing, 4. Swing Spring, 5. The Man I Love, 6. The Man I Love, 7. Dr. Jekyll, 8. Bitty Ditty

Total Time: 72:24
CD 2: 1. Minor March, 2. Changes, 3. How High The Moon, 4. Lester Leaps In, 5. Nature Boy, 6. Alone Together, 7. There’s No You, 8. Easy Living, 9. Rifftide, 10. All The Things You Are,11. The Squirrel

Total Time: 72:43

“ Bags’ statements are as close to ‘pure’ elemental jazz as the Hot 5 Louis. Nothing he plays is extraneous or self-consciously rhetorical; it’s all part of the swinging marrow of his jazz selfexpression. Miles, more reflective, is less abandones than Bags but no less hot-from-the inside.” - Nat Hentoff
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MILES DAVIS (tp) & MILT JACKSON (vib) on all tracks plus:
CD 1:
[1-6] Thelonious Monk (p), Percy Heath (b), Kenny Clarke (d).
Hackensack, New Jersey, December 24, 1954

[7-8] & CD 2 [1-2] Jackie McLean (as on Dr. Jekyll and Minor March only), Ray Bryant (p), Percy Heath (b), Art Taylor (d).
Hackensack, New Jersey, August 5, 1955.

CD 2:
[3-4] Lester Young (ts), John Lewis (p), Percy Heath (b), Connie Kay (d).
Stadthalle, Freiburg, Germany, November 12, 1956.

Bonus Tracks:
CD 2:
[ 5-8] Blue Moods: Miles Davis (tp), Teddy Charles (vib), Britt Woodman (tb), Charles Mingus (b), Elvin Jones (d).
Hackensack, New Jersey, July 9, 1955.

[9-11] Miles Davis (tp), Don Elliott (vib), Beryl Booker (p), Chuck Wayne (g), Clyde Lombardi (b), Connie Kay (d).
Birdland, New York, April 25, 1952. (FOR THE FIRST TIME ON CD)