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The Essential Miles Davis

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Released
  
May 15, 2001

Length
  
149:13 (2 disc set)

Artist
  
Miles Davis

Label
  
Columbia/Legacy

Recorded
  
1945-1986

The Essential Miles Davis (2001)
  
The Prince of Darkness

Release date
  
15 May 2001

Genre
  
Jazz

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Young Miles
  
The Essential Miles Davis (2001)

Producers
  
Michael Cuscuna, Bob Belden

Similar
  
Miles Davis albums, Jazz albums

The Essential Miles Davis is a 2-CD compilation album by Miles Davis released by Columbia Legacy on May 15, 2001. It belongs to Sony Music Entertainment's "The Essential" series, not to the series "Essentials", established by WEA International, and was released as part of Sony's Miles 75 Anniversary program. In 2008, The Essential Miles Davis 3.0 was released as a limited edition album featuring a bonus third disc that added five more songs to the original track list.

Contents

CD1

  1. "Now's the Time" – C. Parker
  2. "Jeru" – G. Mulligan
  3. "Compulsion" – M. Davis
  4. "Tempus Fugit" – B. Powell
  5. "Walkin'" – R. Carpenter
  6. "Round Midnight" – T. Monk - B. Hanighen - C. Williams
  7. "Bye Bye Blackbird" – M. Dixon - R. Henderson
  8. "New Rhumba" – A. Jamal
  9. "Generique" – M. Davis
  10. "Summertime" – G. Gershwin - I. Gershwin - D. Heyward
  11. "So What" – M. Davis
  12. "The Pan Piper" – Gil Evans
  13. "Someday My Prince Will Come" – F.E. Churchill - L. Morey

CD2

  1. "My Funny Valentine (Live)" – R. Rodgers - L. Hart
  2. "E.S.P." – Miles Davis - W. Shorter
  3. "Nefertiti" – W. Shorter
  4. "Petits Machins (Little Stuff)" – Miles Davis - Gil Evans
  5. "Miles Runs the Voodoo Down" – Miles Davis
  6. "Little Church" – H. Pascoal
  7. "Black Satin" – Miles Davis
  8. "Jean Pierre (Live)" – Miles Davis
  9. "Time After Time" – C. Lauper - R. Hyman
  10. "Portia" – M. Miller

CD3 (Limited Edition)

  1. "Stella by Starlight"
  2. "Milestones"
  3. "Seven Steps to Heaven"
  4. "Footprints"
  5. "In a Silent Way"

Songs

1Now's the Time3:17
2Jeru3:13
3Compulsion5:45

References

The Essential Miles Davis Wikipedia
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