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Label:	Columbia Jazz – K68533-S2
Series:	Miles Davis Complete Recording Series – 1
Format:	6 x CD , Compilation, Remastered Box Set , Deluxe Edition
Country:	US
Released:	2000
Genre:	Jazz
Style:	Modal

Tracklist

1-1	Two Bass Hit (Alternate Take - Previously Unissued)	3:18
1-2	Two Bass Hit (Take 2 Through Most Of Tenor Solo, Then Take 5)	3:41
1-3	Ah-Leu-Cha (Alternate Take - Previously Unissued)	5:48
1-4	Ah-Leu-Cha (Take 5 To Middle Of Trumpet Solo, Then Take 4)	5:49
1-5	Ah-Leu-Cha (Alternate Take - Previously Unissued)	5:21
1-6	Little Melonae (Takes 2 To Middle Of Trumpet Solo, Then Take 3 To End)	7:19
1-7	Budo (Alternate Take)	5:00
1-8	Budo (Take 8 Includes Some Ensemble Edits From Take 1 Or 2)	4:14
1-9	Dear Old Stockholm	7:48
1-10	Bye Bye Blackbird (Alternate Take - Previously Unissued)	7:48
1-11	Bye Bye Blackbird	7:54
1-12	Tadd's Delight	4:25
1-13	Tadd's Delight (Alternate Take - Previously Unissued)	4:16
2-1	Dear Old Stockholm (Alternate Take - Previously Unissued)	6:36
2-2	All Of You (Alternate Take - Previously Unissued)	7:28
2-3	All Of You	7:00
2-4	Sweet Sue, Just You (First Version - Previously Unissued)	4:20
2-5	Sweet Sue, Just You (First Start With Discussion Between Leonard Bernstein And Miles Davis - Previously Unissued)	1:56
2-6	Sweet Sue, Just You (Alternate Take - Previously Unissued)	3:28
2-7	Sweet Sue, Just You	3:37
2-8	Miles Davis Comments	0:27
2-9	'Round Midnight	5:54
2-10	Two Bass Hit (Alternate Take - Previously Unissued)	4:29
2-11	Two Bass Hit	5:10
2-12	Billy Boy (Trio Only)	7:10
2-13	Straight, No Chaser (Alternate Take - Previously Unissued)	10:25
3-1	Straight, No Chaser	10:34
3-2	Milestones (Alternate Take - Previously Unissued)	5:58
3-3	Milestones	5:41
3-4	Sid's Ahead	12:58
3-5	Little Melonae (Previously Unissued)	7:49
3-6	Dr. Jackle	5:45
3-7	On Green Dolphin Street	9:46
3-8	Fran-Dance (Alternate Take - Previously Unissued)	5:50
3-9	Fran Dance	5:47
3-10	Stella By Starlight (Takes 3 Up To Tenor Solo Then Take 7)	4:41
4-1	Love For Sale	11:43
4-2	Freddie Freeloader (False Start - Previously Unissued)	1:25
4-3	Freddie Freeloader	9:43
4-4	So What	9:20
4-5	Blue In Green	5:32
4-6	Flamenco Sketches (Alternate Take)	9:30
4-7	Miles Davis Comments (Previously Unissued)	0:40
4-8	Flamenco Sketches	9:22
4-9	All Blues	11:30
5-1	Someday My Prince Will Come	9:01
5-2	Teo	9:32
5-3	Introduction By Willis Conover	2:15
5-4	Ah-Leu-Cha	5:52
5-5	Straight, No Chaser	8:47
5-6	Fran-Dance	7:13
5-7	Two Bass Hit	4:10
5-8	Bye Bye Blackbird	9:10
5-9	The Theme	2:48
6-1	If I Were A Bell	8:27
6-2	Oleo	10:52
6-3	My Funny Valentine	10:25
6-4	Straight, No Chaser	11:02

Companies, etc.

Copyright © – Sony Music Entertainment Inc.
Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Sony Music Entertainment Inc.

Credits

A&R – Patti Matheny
Alto Saxophone – Cannonball Adderley (tracks: 2-10 to 4-10, 5-3 to 6-4)
Art Direction, Design – Arnold Levine
Bass – Paul Chambers (3) (tracks: 1-1 to 1-13, 2-13 to 6-4)
Compilation Producer – Michael Cuscuna
Drums – Jimmy Cobb (tracks: 3-7 to 6-4)
Liner Notes – Ken Vail
Liner Notes, Producer – Michael Cuscuna
Photography By – Vernon Smith (2)
Piano – Wynton Kelly (tracks: 4-2, 4-3, 5-1, 5-2)
Presenter [Announcer] – Willis Conover (tracks: 5-3 to 5-9)
Product Manager – Nicholas Bennett
Recorded By – Teo Macero (tracks: 1-1, 1-2, 2-10 to 3-1, 3-4, 3-6, 3-7, 3-10, 5-1, 5-2, 5-5, 5-7, 6-1, 6-3)
Remastered By, Mixed By – Mark Wilder
Supervised By – Steve Berkowitz
Tenor Saxophone – John Coltrane
Trumpet – Miles Davis

Notes

Graphic design difference: Miles icon is red, instead of dots marking the CDs.

58-track 20-BIT digitally remixed & remastered 6-CD box set of the complete Columbia recordings made between 1955 & 1961

Including 18 previously unreleased tracks with "90 minutes of new music" as the sticker announces.

The 6-discs are housed inside a hard-back die-cut hessian book pack with an etched metal spine inside an outer metal slipcase box.
The 116-page integral booklet contains extensive liner notes, essays, and session analysis, a Miles Davis Quintet timeline, a detailed discography of the time period, and many photographs of all the musicians.

Recorded at Columbia Studio D, New York, New York on October 26, 1955; Columbia 30th Street Studio, New York, New York between June 5, 1956 and March 21, 1961; live at the Newport Jazz Festival, Newport Rhode Island on July 3, 1958; live at the Persian Room, Plaza Hotel, New York, New York on September 9, 1958 and 1959.
Originally Released: 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1961, 1964, 1973, 1975, 1979, 1982, 1988.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

Barcode (Printed): 0 7464-65833-2 6

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	Title (Format)	Label	Cat#	Country	Year
Recently Edited	The Complete Columbia Recordings 1955-1961 (6×CD, Compilation, Box Set, )	Legacy	C6K 65833	US	2000
New Submission	The Complete Columbia Recordings Of Miles Davis With John Coltrane (9×LP, Compilation, Box Set, Limited Edition, Numbered)	Mosaic Records (2)	MQ9-191	US	2000
New Submission	The Complete Columbia Recordings (6×CD, Advance, Compilation, Special Advance Copy)	Legacy	AC6K 65833	US	2000
New Submission	The Complete Columbia Recordings 1955-1961 (6×CD, Compilation, Stereo, Mono, Box Set, )	SME Records	SRCS 2223-8	Japan	2000
New Submission	The Complete Columbia Recordings 1955-1961 (6×CD, Compilation, Mixed, Remastered, Unofficial Release)	J.S.H.P.	МЗ11/35/2002	Russia	2002