Best of Miles Davis Quintet 1965-1968 [Original recording remastered]

Miles Davis Quintet, Miles Davis | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 8, 1999)
• Original Release Date: June 8, 1999
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B00000J7ST
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #218,818 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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13 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Miles in Transition, August 9, 1999

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This review is from: Best of Miles Davis Quintet 1965-1968 (Audio CD)

This album has some lively melodius tracks but also gets into some of the more rambling, avant garde, odd sounding compositions which were a prelude to Bitches Brew which was released in 1970. Some this work is certainly challenging to listen to, and this album is not for the jazz novice. This is more likely to be appreciated by the experienced, sophisticated jazz listener, and true Miles buffs who enjoy his various modes of expression. For more of the "straight ahead" fine progressive jazz that Miles could play, I recommend his earlier works from the fifties and early sixties.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Compilation Discs are Tricky, October 1, 2005

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Robert Middleton (Boulder Creek, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Best of Miles Davis Quintet 1965-1968 (Audio CD)

The music of Miles Davis's second great quintet represented by the albums E.S.P, Miles Miles, Scorcerer, Nefertiti, Miles in the Sky and Filles de Kilimanjero are not only extraordinary recordings, they are quite unlike anything else in recorded jazz.

When it comes to choosing a compliation from this amazing body of work, it's so hard because it's so subjective.

Although I give high marks to all of this music, it would not be my personal preference for a "perfect" compilation. I feel there needs to be more ballads - softer music to counter the harder (both are beautiful; balanced they are magnificent).

So here's another subjective compilation. If you have all the above CDs, you may mix and burn as I do to create new CDs that you can enjoy in a new way that doesn't replace, but augments the originals. Nothing from Filles as that CD really stands alone and the style is quite different than the first five.

Best of the Second Great Quintet

1. Pinocchio (Nefertiti)
2. Fall (Nefertiti)
3. Madness (Nefertiti)
4. Circle (Miles Smiles)
5. Black Comedy (Miles in the Sky)
6. Prince of Darkness (Sorcerer)
7. Masqualero (Sorcerer)
8. Pee Wee (Sorcerer)
9. Mood (E.S.P.)
10. Eighty-One (E.S.P.)
11. Footprints (Miles Smiles)

This will put a smile on your face and a song in your heart!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Evidence for the Great Debate, June 7, 2006

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Samuel Chell (Kenosha,, WI United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Best of Miles Davis Quintet 1965-1968 (Audio CD)

Which is the "gold standard"? Miles' first quintet with Coltrane, Red Garland, Paul Chambers, Philly Joe Jones (and, on certain occasions, Julian Adderley, Bill Evans, Wynton Kelly, and Jimmy Cobb)? Or the 2nd quintet with Shorter, Carter, Williams and Hancock? Your answer to that question might depend on the degree to which you relate to the standards in the American Songbook, the material from which the first quintet drew heavily for its repertory. Even when performing a song like "Stella by Starlight," the 2nd quintet abstracted the song, referencing no more than a phrase or two, and even then very obliquely (there are no standards on the present collection).

One thing is inarguable: both quintets deserve, in fact practically require, the close attention of anyone who values this indigenous American art form. If you suspect you're less engaged by the 2nd quintet than the first, or are leaning toward the 2nd but are reluctant to simply dive in, then this anthology is the perfect means of testing the waters. The following seminal sides are represented: ESP, Miles Smiles, The Sorcerer, Nefertiti, and the Complete Columbia Studio Recordings. The disk contains a 16-page booklet and approximately 70 minutes of telepathic, synchronistic music-making, making it one of the best values (in both new and used editions) on Amazon.