Miles Davis: Kind Of Blue 50th Anniversary Edition

Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley, Bill Evans, Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers, Jimmy Cobb

DISC ONE: 1. So What; 2. Freddie Freeloader; 3. Blue In Green; 4. All Blues; 5. Flamenco Sketches; 6. Flamenco Sketches (alternate take); 7. Freddie Freeloader – studio sequence 1; 8. Freddie Freeloader – false start; 9. Freddie Freeloader – studio sequence 2; 10. So What – studio sequence 1; 11. So What – studio sequence 2; 12. Blue In Green – studio sequence; 13. Flamenco Sketches – studio sequence 1; 14. Flamenco Sketches – studio sequence 2; 15. All Blues – studio sequence
DISC TWO: 1. On Green Dolphin Street; 2. Fran-Dance; 3. Stella By Starlight; 4. Love For Sale; 5. Fran-Dance (alternate take); 6. So What
VINYL TRACKLISTING: 1. So What; 2. Freddie Freeloader: 3. Blue In Green; 4. All Blues; 5. Flamenco Sketches

This is a great set for those who love Davis's Kind of Blue, the packaging is second to none!!!
In 1958, after a string of critically acclaimed and successful albums, Miles Davis was searching for a new direction to take the music, and signs were pointing him off the chordal highway into a new jazz style: modal. His innovations would open up the world for improvisers. He recruited key players with the potential to solidify his new approach, forming his famed sextet with rising jazz giants John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley, Bill Evans & Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers and Jimmy Cobb. Miles hired the little-known Evans because he needed a pianist who was into the modal thing. Davis and Evans both had developed personal voices characterized by a melodic flow that suggested, rather than defined, musical structure. It was his relationship with Evans that created the spark that resulted in the album Kind of Blue.
March 2 & April 22, 1959: In only two impromptu sessions Miles Davisʼs sextet created a tour de force—5 original tunes built on simple scales. Davis was committed to getting something spontaneous out of his musicians. The entire album was composed as a series of modal sketches and was conceived only hours before the recording dates. The outcome? Pure inspiration, and the stuff of legend—an album made up of the first full take of each tune, captured at the historic Columbia 30th Street Studio. The album was released on Columbia Records in 1959, stunning the jazz world by practically creating a new language of music. Its influence goes far beyond jazz. Kind of Blue is universally considered to be one of the best albums of all time, of any genre. Fifty years later, Kind of Blue—the epitome of spontaneous invention—is still the best selling jazz album ever.
This Collectorʼs Edition marks the 50th anniversary with an unprecedented presentation of music, images, insight and history to celebrate the album that is essential to any music collection, the ideal gift item for any jazz lover, especially fans of Miles Davis … a true collectorʼs set.
PACKAGING – Super deluxe package offers outer slipcase complete with:
• Gatefold media carrier holding 180gram single-LP blue vinyl (33 1/3 RPM) plus 2 CDs + 1 DVD
• Perfect bound, 60-page 12”x 12” book
• Memorabilia envelope
• Large foldout poster
“Itʼs a cornerstone record not only for jazz. Itʼs a cornerstone record for music.” Herbie Hancock
“Thatʼll always be my music, man. I play Kind of Blue every day—itʼs my orange juice. It still sounds like it was made yesterday.” Quincy Jones
“Itʼs one thing to just play a tune, or play a program of music, but itʼs another thing to practically create a new language of music, which is what Kind of Blue did.” Chick Corea
“Everybody knows what Kind of Blue is.” Ron Carter
“It is one of the single, greatest achievements in recorded music.” Ed Bradley
Special Features:
Experience history in the making with never-before-released studio dialog offering listeners an initiation into behind-the-scenes action at the recording sessions Over 2 1/2 hours of audio including high fidelity studio and live material recorded by this allstar group of jazz giants a new 55-minute documentary illuminating the story behind the album, featuring extensive performance footage and interviews with Herbie Hancock, Jimmy Cobb, Bill Cosby, Ron Carter, Q-Tip, Eddie Henderson, the late Ed Bradley, Shirley Horn and Jackie McLean (done in 2004), Dave Liebman, Horace Silver, Meshell Ndegeʼocello, studio engineer Frank Laico, photographer Don Hunstein, Ashley Kahn, David Amram, Dan Morgenstern, John Scofield, and Carlos Santana Bonus content including the historic ʻRobert Herridge Theater: The Sound of Miles Davisʼ filmed in 1959 for CBS Television, PLUS a ʻMiles Davis & Groupʼ photo gallery A spectacular 60-page book with extensive essays by noted music writers Francis Davis (Jazz and Its Discontents; The History Of The Blues: The Roots, The Music, The People), Gerald Early (One Nation Under a Groove; Miles Davis and American Culture), and Ashley Kahn (Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece) Unseen photographs, record label memos, producer notes and documents that provide a glimpse into the creative process and place this historic event in context Memorabilia comprised of a facsimile of Bill Evansʼs 3-page hand-written liner notes; reproduction of ʻMiles Davis & Groupʼ Columbia Records promotional brochure; and six 8x10 photos 22”x 33” foldout poster of MILES.

Price: $115.98