Miles Davis: The Complete Columbia Album Collection

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 CDs and 1 DVD.[1]

The Complete Columbia Album Collection
Box set by
ReleasedNovember 24, 2009
Recorded1949–1985
GenreJazz
LabelSony Legacy
ProducerDaniel Baumgarten, Richard Seidet

Contents

The box set contains fifty-two albums on seventy CDs 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.

  1. In Paris Festival Int'l de Jazz May, 1949 (1977)ae
  2. 'Round About Midnight (1957)f
  3. Circle in the Round (1979)c
  4. Miles Ahead (1957)f
  5. Milestones (1958)f
  6. 1958 Miles (1974)c
  7. Miles Davis at Newport (1964)af
  8. Porgy and Bess (1959)f
  9. Jazz at the Plaza (1973)af
  10. Kind of Blue (1959)f
  11. Sketches of Spain (1960)f
  12. Directions (1981)c
  13. Someday My Prince Will Come (1961)f
  14. In Person Friday Night At The Blackhawk (1961)af
  15. In Person Saturday Night At The Blackhawk (1961)af
  16. At Carnegie Hall (1962)af
  17. Quiet Nights (1963)e
  18. Seven Steps to Heaven (1963)f
  19. In Europe (1964)af
  20. My Funny Valentine (1965)af
  21. Four & More (1966)af
  22. Miles in Tokyo (1969)af
  23. Miles in Berlin (1965)af
  24. E.S.P. (1965)f
  25. At Plugged Nickel, Vol. 1 & 2 (1976)ae
  26. Miles Smiles (1967)f
  27. Sorcerer (1967)f
  28. Nefertiti (1968)f
  29. Water Babies (1976)cf
  30. Miles in the Sky (1968)f
  31. Filles de Kilimanjaro (1968)f
  32. In a Silent Way (1969)f
  33. Bitches Brew (1970)f
  34. Big Fun (1974)cf
  35. A Tribute to Jack Johnson (1971)f
  36. Live at the Fillmore East, March 7, 1970: It's About that Time (2001)a
  37. Black Beauty: Miles Davis at Fillmore West (1973)a
  38. At Fillmore (1970)a
  39. Isle of Wight (2009)ad
  40. Live-Evil (1971)bf
  41. On the Corner (1972)f
  42. In Concert (1973)a
  43. Dark Magus (1977)a
  44. Get Up with It (1974)cf
  45. Agharta (1975)a
  46. Pangaea (1976)a
  47. The Man with the Horn (1981)
  48. We Want Miles (1982)ae
  49. Star People (1983)
  50. Decoy (1984)
  51. You're Under Arrest (1985)
  52. 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

  1. "The Complete Miles Davis Columbia Album Collection". Miles Davis. Sony Music Entertainment. Retrieved 12 March 2020.
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