Latest Miles Davis Box Set Arrives in September`

[Lord_of_the_Dense]

NEW YORK, June 10 /PRNewswire/ -- SEVEN STEPS: THE COMPLETE COLUMBIA RECORDINGS OF MILES DAVIS, 1963-'64, the seventh box set in Columbia/Legacy's much-honored series of Davis collections, will arrive in stores September 28th. The previous six boxes have won a combined total of 8 Grammy Awards.

In March 1963, Miles Davis (1926-1991) was, for the first time in years, without a band. Eighteen months later, in September 1964, he had perhaps the finest small group in the world. This CD box set chronicles the quintets led by the trumpeter-bandleader during that crucial year-and-a-half period. Presenting forty-seven selections (seven of which are previously unissued, with three more heard for the first time in unedited form) on seven discs, Davis and his colleagues create the style that came to be known as "freebop."

Four different five-piece units are heard both in the studio and in concert, for the most part performing the repertoire of standards and jazz originals -- such as "All of You," "Milestones," "Bye-Bye Blackbird," and "So What" -- that Davis made famous during the second half of the 1950s with his first "great quintet." All of the music on this set's first disc and the first half of the second, including two wonderful up-tempo originals by pianist Victor Feldman, were at the time new to the Davis canon, but the trumpeter's incandescent balladry, featured on numbers like "I Fall In Love Too Easily," "Baby, Won't You Please Come Home," and "Basin Street Blues" was, of course, hardly novel to his legion of fans.

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[DudeAsInCool]

Anybody know this music well? I didnt take to Miles until the late sixties with Kinda Blue and am curious as to what else Im missing

[Kooperman]

Anybody know this music well? I didnt take to Miles until the late sixties with Kinda Blue and am curious as to what else Im missing

You'd probably like this set. Kind Of Blue was recorded in the late 50's and would be similar to this period in his career. By the late 60's Davis had moved on to jazz/rock fusion with Witches Brew, which would be quite different to the standards and more mainstream sounds this box set apparently covers. Either way, it would be outstanding, I'm sure.

[ASUmusicMAN]

Dude - Miles is amazing...definitely pick up the set or some Miles one way or another. If you got Miles you know it's gonna be sweet

[DudeAsInCool]

These are my favorite Miles Albums--I dont know his early works as well as his latter stuff

Kind of Blue

In a Silent Way  (Columbia CS 9875)

A Tribute to Jack Johnson  (Columbia S 30455)

Jack Johnson Sessions

Amandla  (Warner Bros. 25873)

[Redneck4sure]

Dude, you have 5 albums. It seems to me you have a pretty good start. All my Miles is ripped stuff. ;) I like having the genuine thing so I get the liner notes and stuff but there is just not enough money. :wha': I'm so broke, you'll never see me on the Dallas PD web site as mentioned in another thread.