Released 1985 Producer various producers Mellow Miles
(1985) First Miles
(1990) Release date 1985 | Length 70:22 The Miles Davis Collection, Vol. 1 12 Sides of Miles
(1981) Mellow Miles
(1985) Artist Miles Davis Label Columbia Records | |
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Recorded 1956–1985 various studios Genres Jazz fusion, Cool jazz, Hard bop, Modal jazz, Third stream Similar Miles Davis albums, Jazz fusion albums | ||
Mellow Miles is a compilation album of 12 recordings of the “softer side” of the American jazz trumpet player Miles Davis, first released in 1985, all of which are readily accessible to the non-jazz listener thus making this album an “easy-listening”, introductory sampler of the music of Davis.
Contents
Two of the tracks, “So What” and “Freddie Freeloader”, are Davis compositions from his classic 1959 album Kind of Blue and feature John Coltrane on tenor saxophone and Julian Cannonball Adderley on alto saxophone. A third, Davis's "Pfrancing" from 1961, features Hank Mobley as tenorman. There are also four jazz standards – George Gershwin’s “Summertime” and “It Ain’t Necessarily So”, “Bye Bye Blackbird” and Thelonious Monk’s “'Round Midnight” – on the album plus two electronic jazz fusion or jazz-rock tracks: Davis’s interpretations of Cindi Lauper’s 1984 hit single “Time After Time” and Michael Jackson's “Human Nature”, both from his 1985 album You’re Under Arrest.
Track listing
- “Miles” (Miles Davis) (5:40) (from the album Milestones)
- “Summertime” (George Gershwin/Ira Gershwin/DuBose Heyward/Arr. Gil Evans) (3:20) (from the album Porgy and Bess)
- “So What” (Miles Davis) (9:05) (from the album Kind of Blue)
- “Time After Time” (Cindi Lauper/Rob Hyman) (3:32) (from the album You’re Under Arrest)
- “Miles Ahead” (Miles Davis/Gil Evans) (3:27) (from the album Miles Ahead)
- “Freddie Freeloader” (Miles Davis) (9:36) (from the album Kind of Blue)
- “Bye Bye Blackbird” (Ray Henderson/Mort Dixon) (7:57) (from the album 'Round About Midnight)
- “Pfrancing” (Miles Davis) (8:31) (from the album Someday My Prince Will Come)
- “'Round Midnight” (5:55) (Bernie Hanighen/Cootie Williams/Thelonious Monk) (from the album 'Round About Midnight)
- “It Ain’t Necessarily So” (George Gershwhin/Ira Gershwin/DuBose Heyward/Arr. Gil Evans) (4:23) (from the album Porgy and Bess)
- “Human Nature” (Steve Porcaro/John Bettis) (4:29) (from the album You’re Under Arrest)
- “New Rhumba” (Ahmad Jamal) (4:27) (from the album Miles Ahead)
Personnel
Songs
1Miles5:43
2Summertime3:20
3So What9:05