Miles Davis Official Digital Download

The Miles Davis Quintet was an American jazz band from 1955 to early 1969 led by Miles Davis.

ESP marks the beginning of a revitalization for Miles Davis, as his second classic quintet – saxophonist Wayne Shorter, pianist Herbie Hancock, bassist Ron Carter, and drummer Tony Williams – gels, establishing what would become their signature adventurous hard bop.

"Bitches Brew" is a pivotal document in music history. Widely considered one of the greatest jazz albums ever made, it is Miles Davis’ first Gold-certified work. The music legend continues his experimentation with electric instruments, bridging together jazz and rock. Davis’ innovative masterpiece mixed the best elements of free jazz, electric rock textures and blues phrasings. It is one of Q Magazine’s “Best Jazz Albums of All Time” and one of Rolling Stone’s “500 Greatest Albums of All Time”. It reached #1 on Billboard’s Top Jazz Albums and won the GRAMMY for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Performance.

In the summer of 1955, after Davis performed at the Newport Jazz Festival, he was approached by Columbia Records executive George Avakian, who offered him a contract if he could form a regular band. Davis assembled his first regular quintet to meet a commitment at the Café Bohemia in July with Sonny Rollins on tenor saxophone, Red Garland on piano, Paul Chambers on bass, and Philly Joe Jones on drums. By the autumn, Rollins had left to deal with his heroin addiction, and later in the year joined the hard bop quintet led by Clifford Brown and Max Roach.

Sixty years after the release of Miles Davis' masterpiece, explanations for its everlasting allure and mysterious beauty remain elusive.

This will be the best sounding digital reissue of Kind of Blue in your collection. There. I said it. No waffling around. This reissue is stunningly good. If you don't run and get it NOW, you will kick yourself for not having done so sooner once you finally hear it.

Aufgenommen in zwei Tagen im Sommer 1967 ist "Nefertiti" das letzte vollständig akustische Album von Miles Davis, ohne Kompositionen von Miles selbst.

Seven Steps to Heaven is the eighth studio album on Columbia Records by jazz musician Miles Davis, released in 1963, catalogue CL 2051 and CS 8851 in stereo. Recorded at Columbia's 30th Street Studios in Manhattan, and at Columbia Studios in Los Angeles, in sessions recorded in April of 1963 (in Los Angeles), and May of 1963 (in New York).

Tenor saxophonist John Coltrane's return to Davis' group in 1958 coincided with the "modal phase" albums: Milestones and Kind of Blue (1959) are both considered essential examples of 1950s modern jazz.

Kind of Blue is a studio album by the American jazz trumpeter and composer Miles Davis. It was released on August 17, 1959, by Columbia Records. For the recording, Davis led a sextet featuring saxophonists John Coltrane and Julian "Cannonball" Adderley, pianist Bill Evans, bassist Paul Chambers, and drummer Jimmy Cobb, with new band pianist Wynton Kelly replacing Evans on one track, "Freddie Freeloader". The album was recorded in two sessions on March 2 and April 22, 1959, at Columbia's 30th Street Studio in New York City.