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Miles Davis, Miles Ahead

Audio CD

Disk ID: 1670629

Disk length: 52m 15s (14 Tracks)

Original Release Date: 1997

Label: Unknown

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Tracks & Durations

1. Springsville 3:27
2. The Maids of Cadiz 3:53
3. The Duke 3:34
4. My Ship 4:27
5. Miles Ahead 3:29
6. Blues for Pablo 5:18
7. New Rhumba 4:36
8. The Meaning of the Blues 2:48
9. Lament 2:14
10. I Don't Wanna be Kissed (By Anyone But You) 3:11
11. Springsville (take 7) 3:16
12. Blues for Pablo (take 1) 3:32
13. The Meaning of the Blues/Lament (rehearsal) 5:09
14. I Don't Wanna be Kissed (By Anyone But You) (alternate) 3:11

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Review

These 1957 recordings were the first of Miles Davis's collaborations with arranger Gil Evans for Columbia, renewing a relationship that had begun with the Birth of the Cool sessions in 1949. It was perhaps the most important relationship ever forged between a jazz soloist and an arranger, for Evans excelled at finding fresh material (like Delibes's "The Maids of Cadiz") and then adding subtle voicings and blending unusual instruments to highlight Davis's central voice. Everything Evans does enhances the trumpeter's keen sense of space and his evocative sound. He could construct complex arrangements and make them fly (as on the opening "Springsville," by John Carisi), contrast Davis's voice with tuba or bass clarinet, or create the longing, Spanish-inflected "Blues for Pablo," a precursor to their later Sketches of Spain. --Stuart Broomer

Other Versions

Albums are mined from the various public resources and can be actually the same but different in the tracks length only. We are keeping all versions now.

Miles Ahead

Tracks: 14, Disk length: 52m 16s (+0m 1s)

Miles Ahead

Tracks: 14, Disk length: 52m 14s (-1m 59s)

Miles Ahead

Tracks: 14, Disk length: 52m 21s (+0m 6s)

Miles Ahead

Tracks: 13 (-1 tracks), Disk length: 49m 2s (-4m 47s)

Miles Ahead

Tracks: 13 (-1 tracks), Disk length: 48m 47s (-4m 32s)

Miles Ahead

Tracks: 10 (-4 tracks), Disk length: 37m 30s (-15m 15s)

Miles Ahead

Tracks: 10 (-4 tracks), Disk length: 37m 7s (-16m 52s)

Miles Ahead

Tracks: 10 (-4 tracks), Disk length: 37m 5s (-16m 50s)

Miles Ahead

Tracks: 10 (-4 tracks), Disk length: 37m 5s (-16m 50s)

Miles Ahead

Tracks: 10 (-4 tracks), Disk length: 37m 3s (-16m 48s)

Miles Ahead

Tracks: 10 (-4 tracks), Disk length: 37m 1s (-16m 46s)

Miles Ahead

Tracks: 13 (-1 tracks), Disk length: 1h 10m 49s (+18m 34s)

Miles Ahead

Tracks: 20 (+6 tracks), Disk length: 1h 14m 21s (+22m 6s)

Miles Ahead

Tracks: 16 (+2 tracks), Disk length: 1h 19m 8s (+26m 53s)

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