Early Davis: The Birth of the Cool Trumpet [Import]

Miles Davis | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 27, 2000)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Definitive Spain
• ASIN: B00004U302
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #869,263 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Pointless Mama Blues

2. That's the Stuff You Gotta Watch

3. Deep Sea Blues

4. Bring It on Home

5. Don't Sing Me the Blues

6. I've Always Got the Blues

7. Don't Explain to Me Baby

8. Baby, Won't You Make up Your Mind

9. Bean-A-Re-Bop

10. Isn't It Romantic?

11. The Way You Look Tonight

12. Phantomesque

13. 52nd Street Theme

14. Half Nelson

15. You Go to My Head

16. Chasin' the Bird

Customer Reviews

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars This is ugly 0 Stars, February 9, 2001

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Coto "H.K." (Coto de Caza, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Early Davis: The Birth of the Cool Trumpet (Audio CD)

Not the Miles you think. Old funky, crusty blues record with miles on backup. Way back on backup. He's basically a fill-in artist. You would never know this was a Miles CD playing if you were not told. Save your money. There's too much other great stuff he left us to enjoy. I would have given it no stars if I could.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Way too early, April 9, 2003

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Eric J. Lyman (Roma, Lazio Italy) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Early Davis: The Birth of the Cool Trumpet (Audio CD)

I got this CD from as a gift from someone who knows about my taste for Miles Davis and who tried to find something that wasn't already in my collection. I appreciate the gesture, but if this is what is left beyond the Miles Davis CDs I already own, then I'll stick with what I already have.

I kept waiting for Miles Davis' powerful entry, and when the CD of old fashioned blues (with only a touch of jazz) finished I was still waiting. Turns out this was way too early Davis for the music to be constructed around him. On this recording, Miles Davis plays a bit part that is at best difficult to pick out and is in any case a scandalous reason for putting the man's name on the cover.

I see a fellow reviewer came to a similar conclusion -- I wish my friend read the review before paying for this CD. This is one recording that won't be enjoying playing time at my house.