Complete Columbia Recordings 1955-1961 [Box set, Original recording remastered]

Miles Davis, John Coltrane | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 4, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 6
• Format: Box set, Original recording remastered
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• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B00020W0YM
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #156,996 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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67 of 69 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Not for everyone, but great for its target audience, September 25, 2006

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JL - See all my reviews

This review is from: Complete Columbia Recordings 1955-1961 (Audio CD)

Who should buy this set? Well first of all anyone interested in Miles Davis or John Coltrane and especially their interplay together will probably be interested, but this set seems to have been made for the completist or armchair jazz scholar. This is more of a personal library piece, to be treated as such rather than an introduction or overview of these two jazz "giants". This set covers Miles Davis' work with John Coltrane during Miles' time with Columbia Records. The albums that this would entail are:
'Round About Midnight
Milestones
Miles At Newport
Kind Of Blue
Someday My Prince Will Come
As well as many alternate takes and live recordings not found on these albums.
So you may have heard that Kind Of Blue is a great starting point for jazz. This colletion comprises that entire album and some alternate takes, but the disc that has that album has another song at the beginning and some Miles Davis comments as well as presenting the tracks out of order from the original album order. There is nothing like putting in Kind Of Blue for the first time, hearing the low bass strumming and the explosion of Miles' first notes of "So What". Here you would have to skip to track 4 and then back around for that experience. Or what if (like me) Someday My Prince Will Come is one of your favorite albums by early Columbia Miles Davis. Sadly Coltrane did not play with Miles on every track so the album is not included here in its entirety for obvious reasons. Many times alternate takes are placed one after the other for comparison sake. Rather than listening to these discs like albums with an overall feel, these discs should really be approached as study guides and keys to the interworking of Miles and Trane.
If you are new to jazz or at least to Miles and Coltrane then buy Kind Of Blue and explore it over and over, buy Someday My Prince Will Come and listen to "Pfrancing" and see if it does not speak to you.
If you have the aforementioned albums and you do not really care about alternate takes or the liner notes, then this set was not made for you.
If you have had the aforementioned albums for some time and you love Miles and Trane, buy this set and dig deeper. Listen to the alternate takes placed next to the takes you remember from the albums. Study Miles and Trane together, the call and response, the give and take. Read the wonderful booklet enclosed with the set and learn more about Miles and trane and the other musicians in this classic quintet.

5.0 out of 5 stars Miles and Trane, how could you not want it?, March 23, 2010

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Cody - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Complete Columbia Recordings 1955-1961 (Audio CD)

Well, if you were like me when you bought this, then you've already listened to Miles and Trane, maybe not extensively but enough to know you might want this. You've seen what the music is that's contained in the box set and listened to the samples but why should you get it? There are a lot of alternate takes on this box set, which to some people might get annoying and repetitive but if you're a musician or just a fan of miles and trane, then each of these has their own value to them. As a drummer, i love the fact that i can hear multiple tracks of Two Bass Hit which features a different solo from philly joe jones each time. If you're not a musician then i still think you should get this. Let's face it, in terms of jazz being published on cds, welllll it's probably not going to happen for much longer. Everything is going digital and sure maybe you can get this on itunes, but personally i love being able to physically have my set. Miles and trane are gone and not many people listen to jazz, so if my computer crashes, i can always at least revert back to the cds. I think if you're a fan of jazz, this collection is a must own.

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5.0 out of 5 stars My Passion, September 12, 2011

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Anthony Talley - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Complete Columbia Recordings 1955-1961 (Audio CD)

As the title suggests Miles Davis and his music is my passion. This collection W/John Coltrane is the very best music in the world. I received it promptly and Was listening right away, no complaints. As always amazon is straight ahead.