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Miles Davis - Chronicle: The Complete Prestige Recordings 1951–1956 '1987

Chronicle: The Complete Prestige Recordings 1951–1956
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Album name Chronicle: The Complete Prestige Recordings 1951–1956
Country
Date 1987
GenreJazz
Play time 09:10:59
Format / Bitrate Stereo 1420 Kbps / 44.1 kHz
MP3 320 Kbps
Media CD
Size 2.93 GB
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The expanse of Miles Daviss recordings for Prestige Records, the California
analogue to New Yorks Blue Note, is huge. In terms of artistic development, the
eight CDs in this box span Daviss development from tentative searching through
the full bloom of his first great quintet, whose frontline boasted Davis and a
young John Coltrane. The sessions captured on Chronicle begin in 1951, with
Daviss grainy debut for the label in a sextet with Sonny Rollins, and continue
with the fascinating Lee Konitz-led quintet that Davis was eminently adaptable
to, even with the kind of angular sounds Konitzs band drummed up. Listing the
remaining sessions would be an exercise in boasting, given the presence of so
many virtuoso bop and postbop giants. Given that Davis may well have piqued
Prestige founder Bob Weinstocks interest through his playing with Charlie
Parker, Bird shows up on a 1953 date, doubling tenor saxes with Rollins. Some
have remarked that the pre-1954 Davis dates dont show nearly the smarts of the
1954 and after works, but for all that huff, theres some deep stuff in the early
sessions, from the twined tenor saxes of Al Cohn and Zoot Sims to Daviss own
uneasily fragile tone that hadnt taken on the full heft of its later precision.
Then there are the quintet recordings, which carve out a secure spot for Davis
in the annals of ultracreative jazz. Recorded in three marathon 1956 sessions,
the quintet works came out on several LPs, all of which remain in print today in
their exact form. The group sculpts a liquid groove thats got sharp teeth, what
with Philly Joe Joness crackling drums, and immeasurable tonic depth. Davis
stays active in the midregister, blasting off lines that do indeed sound slow
and methodical but also emit unmistakable impressionistic qualities that would
wow fans for decades. Coltrane, himself still in a developing phase, drops lots
of hints that knew bebops architectonics so thoroughly as to be on the brink of
deconstructing them definitively (which he later did on Giant Steps). Given the
full trajectory of the music and the artists on these sessions, this is a
majestic collection. 

Tracklist:

CD1 - 01:13:47

01. Morpheus 2:21
02. Down 2:51
03. Blue Room (Take 1) 2:49
04. Blue Room (Take 2) 3:01
05. Whispering 3:03
06. I Know 2:33
07. Odjenar 2:51
08. Ezz-thetic 2:55
09. Hibeck 3:05
10. Yesterdays 4:59
11. Conception 4:03
12. Out Of The Blue 6:10
13. Denial 5:35
14. Bluing 9:40
15. Dig 7:35
16. My Old Flame 6:33
17. Its Only A Paper Moon 6:25

CD2 - 01:13:58

01. Compulsion 5:45
02. The Serpents Tooth (Take 1) 7:00
03. The Serpents Tooth (Take 2) 6:18
04. Round About Midnight 7:08
05. Tasty Pudding 3:20
06. Willie The Wailer 4:26
07. Floppy 6:00
08. For Adults Only 5:33
09. When Lights Are Low 3:26
10. Tune-Up 3:54
11. Miles Ahead 4:25
12. Smooch 3:05
13. Four 4:04
14. Old Devil Moon 3:23
15. Blue Haze 6:05

CD3 - 01:11:14

01. Solar 4:46
02. You Dont Know What Love Is 4:22
03. Love Me Or Leave Me 3:00
04. Ill Remember April 7:53
05. Blue n Boogie 8:15
06. Walkin 5:24
07. Airegin 5:00
08. Oleo 5:13
09. But Not For Me (Take 1) 4:37
10. But Not For Me (Take 2) 5:44
11. Doxy 4:56

CD4 - 01:09:22

01. Bags Groove (Take 1) 11:15
02. Bags Groove (Take 2) 9:22
03. Bemsha Swing 9:30
04. Swing Spring 10:43
05. The Man I Love (Take 1) 8:30
06. The Man I Love (Take 2) 7:58
07. I Didnt 6:02
08. Will You Still Be Mine? 6:23

CD5 - 01:11:31

01. Green Haze 5:50
02. I See Your Face Before Me 4:45
03. A Night In Tunisia 7:22
04. A Gal In Calico 5:16
05. Dr. Jackle 8:47
06. Bitty Ditty 5:12
07. Minor March 8:12
08. Changes 7:08
09. In Your Own Sweet Way 4:34
10. No Line 5:39
11. Vierd Blues 6:55

CD6 - 01:02:13

01. Stablemates 5:25
02. How Am I To Know? 4:38
03. Just Squeeze Me 7:27
04. There Is No Greater Love 3:39
05. The Theme 5:45
06. SPosin 6:09
07. In Your Own Sweet Way 5:42
08. Diane 7:49
09. Tranes Blues 8:33
10. Something I Dreamed Last Night 10:48

CD7 - 01:09:02

01. It Could Happen To You 6:40
02. Woodyn You 5:01
03. Ahmads Blues 7:24
04. Surrey With The Fringe On Top 9:04
05. It Never Entered My Mind 5:22
06. When I Fall In Love 4:21
07. Salt Peanuts 6:07
08. Four 7:14
09. The Theme (Take 1) 5:45
10. The Theme (Take 2) 5:45
11. If I Were A Bell 8:15
12. Well, You Neednt 6:18

CD8 - 00:59:49

01. Round Midnight 5:25
02. Half Nelson 4:45
03. Youre My Everything 5:18
04. I Could Write A Book 5:11
05. Oleo 6:22
06. Airegin 4:24
07. Tune Up 5:41
08. When Lights Are Low 7:30
09. Blues By Five 10:23
10. My Funny Valentine 6:04

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