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Best of Miles Davis & John Coltrane

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Every track on this CD is a gem. However, if your budget allows, either purchase the boxed set (there is virtually no filler!), or at least pick up KIND OF BLUE, 'ROUND ABOUT MIDNIGHT, and MILESTONES (the three albums that comprise nearly all of the tracks on this compilation). These Miles Davis CDs maintain a standard of brilliance from the first note to the last...why settle for anything less? THE BEST OF... is recommended if you really feel a one-disc sampling of this period is sufficient, although it's difficult to imagine buying this and not wanting more!

If you're new to Jazz, you need to own this CD as a great introductory primer to the art. If you're an old hand at Jazz, you need to own this CD to remind you really quickly just how great this art is....in case you've forgotten. Definitely worth picking up for the wonderful packaging, awesome liner notes, and great mastering. But most of all- for the magic of Miles Davis and John Coltrane, et al! This music makes you feel good to be alive! Highly recommended.

In a world of overpriced and mediocre music, Best of Miles Davis and John Coltrane is a shining light. Although I recommend the full set titled Miles Davis and John Coltrane: The Complete Columbia Recordings, a less expensive but still extroadinary album can be found in this product. This collection features the most outstanding Trane solo on Someday My Prince Will Come, exceptional lyricism on Round Midnight and blazingly fast excitement on tracks such the rare alternate take of Sraight, No Chaser, a true American anthem. Keep yourself groovin' on the way to work with Best of Miles and John

Miles Davis and John Coltrane, musically, were made for each other. One already a legend, the other soon-to-be, this is a heckuva pair. Add Cannonball Aderly, Philly Joe Jones, Red Garland and Paul Chambers and you have the best ensemble jazz ever saw. Plus we get half 'Round About Midnight and Milestones, as well as works of jazz expertise So What, Blue in Green, and Someday My Prince Will Come. Let's also not forget Straight, No Chaser, Milestones, 'Round Midnight and Bye Bye Blackbird. Buy it today.

I'm not one to usually endorse "best of" or "essential" collections as they are usually marketing ploys designed to get consumers to part with more of their money by excluding one or two critical songs. And that's certainly the case here, but guess what? I don't care. The music is so sublime, I can almost forgive the marketing execs who compiled these tunes because what Miles Davis and John Coltrane created was immortal music, and these nine tracks more than demonstrate that fact. I mean, who do they think they're kidding? The audio CD format would have certainly permitted the inclusion of "All Of You," "On Green Dolphin Street," "Stella By Starlight," "All Blues," and Teo." But I don't really need those to appreciate this CD. It stands alone. In other words, the suits at Sony succeeded in spite of themselves.

Boxes are fine,but they are expensive,so why not settle for this good overview of muted MILES and COLTRANE discovering his talent as a great soloist.Reducing those two to 65 minutes of music certainly wasn't easy because everything they recorded together is interesting.I first discovered them twenty years ago by buying ROUND ABOUT MIDNIGHT which i still think is their best;the title track included in this collection can resume jazz by itself:feeling and emotion.Get this cd and you'll find out what jazz is all about, and also that today's technology can not by itself gave you greatness

The Best of Miles Davis / John Coltrane (1955-1961) takes a chronological look back at some of the best-loved tracks from the box set. In addition to the material on the albums above, this CD also brings in "So What" and "Blue in Green" from Miles' jazz masterpiece, Kind of Blue, and the title track from the 1961 album, "Someday My Prince Will Come," which featured one of the most lyrical solos of Trane's career. Sure, there are loads of tracks that could've been here--"Stella by Starlight" and "On Green Dolphin Street" quickly come to mind. But it's hard to dispute the tracks that are on the CD. Even after all these years, Miles & Coltrane remain one of the most powerful and important pairings in jazz history.

There are just certain times after midnight that nothing else will do but a Miles and Coltrane mixer. Like scotch and soda, gin and tonic, vodka and cranberry, these two just glide together. Put some ice in the glass, mix yourself a cocktail, sit back with a companion, or by your lonesome and let the chords and groove chase your early morning blues out the door! The only glaring bump in the buzz is that their wonderfully rendered "My Funny Valentine" is not on this compilation. This is nonetheless all good/

BEK

The four stars is for the desirability of the record; the tracks deserve five stars without a doubt. In fairness to the music company, it must be said that the tracks chosen are NOT "below par", and they DO give an adequate impression of some of the best music performed by this extraordinary quintet. The trouble is, however, that anyone with any serious interest in Davis's music would, if buying just this record, soon want all of the CDs from which this selection has been taken. As usual, therefore, it is not really a good idea to buy a selection, but that argument applies with the more force in this case because Davis, Coltrane, and their group left us SO MUCH of significance. So my advice is NOT to buy this if you feel you may very well want to buy more CDs of this group, and even if you haven't yet made up your mind that you will, it is, I feel, best to keep your options open from the start. - ...

Gave this as a Christmas Present. My friend enjoyed it very much, nice listening music and a broad range of music. Nice to play for dinner music, easy listening