Miles Davis The Complete Bitches Brew Sessions [4cd Boxset] (2004)

Miles Davis - Circle In The Round (1979) [2CD] {Columbia}
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© 1991 Columbia / Legacy | C2K 46862
Jazz / Modal Music / Fusion / Trumpet

Although this two-disc set is a compilation – primarily consisting of extended outtakes – Circle in the Round features the true colors of jazz chameleon Miles Davis (trumpet) during a 15-year (1955-1970) span from eight different recording sessions. Whether it was serendipity or astute coordination that gathered these sides together, Davis enthusiasts will undoubtedly find plenty to enjoy from his prolific and seemingly perpetual metamorphosis.

Commemorating its release in 1970 and profound impact on modern music, the 40th Anniversary Collector's Edition of Miles Davis' Bitches Brew are two CDs with the original 94-plus minutes of music plus six bonus tracks, and a third CD of a previously unissued performance at Tanglewood in August of 1970 featuring Keith Jarrett, Chick Corea, Dave Holland, Jack DeJohnette, Airto Moreira, and Gary Bartz. If that isn't enough, there's a DVD of a previously unissued performance in Copenhagen in November of 1969, with Wayne Shorter, Corea, Holland, and DeJohnette.

Miles Davis - The Columbia Years 1955-1985 (1988) {4CD Set Columbia C4K 86569}
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© 1988 Columbia / Legacy / Sony Music | C4K 86569
Jazz / Cool / Modal Music / Jazz Funk / Fusion / Trumpet

This was the first real attempt by Columbia to make any comprehensive sense of Miles Davis' colossal output for the label. This set, then, was bound to be controversial no matter how it turned out, but even so, Columbia could have done better with a strictly chronological approach. Instead producer/compiler Jeff Rosen had the cockeyed notion of organizing each of the original five LPs around a single theme.

The Cellar Door Sessions documents the great trumpeter-bandleader Davis at the helm of one of his most stimulating and electrifying groups. The sextet on The Cellar Door‘s bandstand – Davis, saxophonist Gary Bartz, Keith Jarret (playing electric organ and electric piano), Motown bassist Michael Henderson, drummer Jack DeJohnette, and percussionist Airto Moreira – is a sheer marvel of kinetic energy. And adding more visionary pyrotechnics is the blazing guitar of John McLaughlin. Every member of this Davis band has subsequently proved to be a major figure in jazz; in his own way, each has placed a highly personal stamp on improvisation during the past 35 years.

Miles Davis - The Cellar Door Sessions 1970 (2005) {6CD Columbia C6K 93614}
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© 1970, 2005 Columbia / Legacy / Sony BMG Music | C6K 93614
Jazz / Fusion / Jazz-Rock / Trumpet

When Miles Davis released Live-Evil in 1970, fans were immediately either taken aback or keenly attracted to its raw abstraction. It was intense and meandering at the same time; it was angular, edgy, and full of sharp teeth and open spaces that were never resolved. Listening to the last two CDs of The Cellar Door Sessions 1970, Sony's massive six-disc box set that documents six of the ten dates Davis and his band recorded during their four-day engagement at the fabled club, is a revelation now. The reason: it explains much of Live-Evil's live material with John McLaughlin.