“When you come upon anything that Miles Davis does, particularly the essential Miles Davis, you have to have it if only just for 'My Funny Valentine.' Y'know, when you hear the recording of that, you realize what they're talking about when they talk about Miles Davis and what he has meant to the American musical landscape.”Watch this moment
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Miles Davis
The Essential Miles Davis is a 2-CD compilation album by Miles Davis released by Columbia Legacy on May 15, 2001. It belongs to Sony Music Entertainment's "The Essential" series, not to the series "Essentials", established by WEA International, and was released as part of Sony's Miles 75 Anniversary program. In 2008, The Essential Miles Davis 3.0 was released as a limited edition album featuring a bonus third disc that added five more songs to the original track list.
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23 tracks · 110:38 · click to previewDisc 1
1
Now's the Time
2
Jeru
3
Compulsion
4
Tempus Fugit
5
Walkin'
6
'Round Midnight
5:55
7
Bye Bye Blackbird
7:53
8
New Rhumba
4:35
9
Generique
10
Summertime
3:17
11
So What
9:21
12
The Pan Piper
3:51
13
Someday My Prince Will Come
9:03
Disc 2
1
My Funny Valentine (Live)
15:05
2
E.S.P.
5:28
3
Nefertiti
7:50
4
Petits Machins (Little Stuff)
8:05
5
Miles Runs the Voodoo Down
14:01
6
Little Church
3:13
7
Black Satin
5:15
8
Jean Pierre
4:01
9
Time After Time
3:38
10
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Head Hunters
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Chet Baker Sings
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1954
Ella and Louis
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1956
Bitches Brew
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1970
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2017
Song of Innocence
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1968
Songs of Experience
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1969
Afro-Harping
Dorothy Ashby
1968
Tezeta
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2021
Sextant
Herbie Hancock
1973
Giant Steps
John Coltrane
1960
Crescent
John Coltrane Quartet
1964
Ballads
John Coltrane Quartet
1963
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