Miles Davis - Complete Live Recordings 1948-55

[EKE BBB]

Has anybody heard this?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Complete-Live-Reco...4/dp/B000IXZ7GG

Looking at the contents of this 10 CD box, it's not complete at all (no Charlie Parker-led group recordings, not all the Benny Carter orchestra recordings are included...).

Edited December 15, 2006 by EKE BBB

[EKE BBB]

Here are the contents:

Disc 1

September 11, 1948 - NYC Royal Roost

Miles Davis (tp) Mike Zwerin (tb) Junior Collins (frh) John Barber (tu) Lee Konitz (as) Gerry Mulligan (bars) John Lewis (p) Al McKibbon (b) Max Roach (d) Kenny Pancho Hagood* (vo) Gil Evans (arr, cond), John Lewis, Gerry Mulligan, (arr).

1 Birth Of The Cool Theme (Gil Evans) [0’18]

2 Move (Denzil Best) [4’50]

3 Moon Dreams (McGregor-Mercer) [3’03]

4 Budo (Miles Davis-Bud Powell) [4’23]

5 Godchild (George Wallington) [6’06]

6 S'il Vous Plaît (John Lewis) [4’34]

7 Darn That Dream* (De Lange-Van Heusen) [4’32]

8 Why Do I Love You ?* (Kern-Hammerstein) [3’46]

September 18, 1948 - NYC Royal Roost

Miles Davis (tp) Mike Zwerin (tb) Junior Collins (frh) John Barber (tu) Lee Konitz (as) Gerry Mulligan (bars) John Lewis (p) Al McKibbon (b) Max Roach (d) Gil Evans (arr, cond), John Lewis, Gerry Mulligan (arr).

9 Move (Denzil Best) [3’31]

10 Moon Dreams (McGregor-Mercer) [3’34]

11 Budo (Miles Davis-Bud Powell) [3’27]

BONUS : March 31, 1946 - Benny Carter Orchestra, Los Angeles Streets of Paris

Miles Davis (tpt) Al Grey (tb) Britt Woodman(tb) Benny Carter (as) Hubert "Bumps" Myers (ts) Sonny White (p) James Cannady (g) Thomas Moultrie (b) Percy Brice (d)

12 Just You, Just Me (R. Klages-J. Greer) [3’21]

BONUS August 1948 - Chicago Pershing Ballroom

Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Dave Burns, Willie Cook, Elmon Wright (tp) Jesse Tarrant, Andy Duryea (tb) John Brown, Ernie Henry (as) Joe Gayles, James Moody (ts) Cecil Paynes (bars) James Foreman Jr (p) Nelson Boyd (b) Teddy Stewart (d) Chano Pozo (cga)

13 Good Bait (Tadd Dameron-Count Basie) [2’28]

14 Unknown Ballad [0’32]

Disc 2

September 25, 1948 - NYC Royal Roost

Miles Davis (tp) Lee Konitz (as) John Lewis (p) Curly Russell (b) Max Roach (d) Kenny Pancho Hagood* (vo)

1 Half Nelson (Miles Davis) [5’55]

2 Chasin' The Bird (Charlie Parker) [5’55]

3 52nd Street Theme (Thelonious Monk) [4’56]

4 You Go To My Head* (Dizzy Gillespie-Coots) [5’49]

January 17, 1949 - NYC WPIX radio : All Star Jam Session

Miles Davis (tp) Kai Winding (tb) Buddy DeFranco (cl) Lucky Thompson, Charlie Ventura* (ts) Al Haig (p) Oscar Pettiford (b) Shelly Manne (d)

5 Anthropology (Charlie Parker) [3’27]

6 The Squirrel (Tadd Dameron) [4’19]

7 How High The Moon* (Lewis-Hamilton) [3’41]

February 19, 1949 - NYC Royal Roost

Miles Davis (tp) Kai Winding (tb) Sahib Shihab (as) Benjamin Lundy (ts)

Cecil Payne (bars) Tadd Dameron (p) John Collins (g) Curly Russell (b) Kenny Clarke (d) Carlos Vidal (cga)

8 Good Bait (Tadd Dameron-Count Basie) [3’30]

9 Focus(Tadd Dameron) [4’03]

10 April In Paris (Duke-Harburg) [3’03]

11 Sid’s Delight (Webb’s Delight) (Tadd Dameron) [3’47]

February 26, 1949 - NYC Royal Roost

Miles Davis (tp) Kai Winding (tb) Sahib Shihab (as) Benjamin Lundy (ts) Cecil Payne (bars) Tadd Dameron (p) John Collins (g) Curly Russell (b) Kenny Clarke (d) Carlos Vidal (cga)

12 Miles (Tadd Dameron) [3’38]

13 Casbah (Tadd Dameron) [3’36]

Disc 3

May 8 – 15, 1949 - Paris Salle Pleyel

Miles Davis (tp) James Moody (ts) Tadd Dameron (p) Barney Spieler (b) Kenny Clarke (d) Maurice Cullaz (speaker)

1 Rifftide (Coleman Hawkins) [4’11]

2 Good Bait (Tadd Dameron-Count Basie) [5’55]

3 Don't Blame Me (Fields-McHugh) [4’17]

4 The Squirrel (Tadd Dameron) [3’45]

5 Lady Bird (Tadd Dameron) [5’04]

6 All The Things You Are (Kern-Hammerstein) [4’20]

7 Wee (Allen’s Alley) (Denzil Best) [4’23]

8 Perdido (Wah Hoo) (Tizol-Lengsfelder-Drake) [5’33]

9 Embraceable You (Gershwin) [4’06]

10 Ornithology (Charlie Parker-B.Harris) [4’00]

May 15, 1949 - Paris Salle Pleyel

Aimé Barelli, Bill Coleman, Miles Davis, Kenny Dorham, Hot Lips Page (tp) « Big Chief » Russel Moore (tb) Hubert Rostaing (cl) Sidney Bechet, Pierre Braslavsky (ss) Charlie Parker (as) Don Byas, James Moody (ts) Bernard Pfeiffer (p) Hazy Osterwald (vib) Toots Thielemans (g) Tommy Potter (b) Max Roach (d)

11 Farewell Blues (Blues Final) (Traditionnel) [4’00]

December 25, 1949 - NYC Carnegie Hall - The Stars of Modern Jazz

Miles Davis (tp) Bennie Green (tb) Sonny Stitt (as) Serge Chaloff (bars) Bud Powell (p) Curly Russell (b) Max Roach (d)

12 Move (Denzil Best) [5’37]

13 Hot House (Tadd Dameron-Bregman) [7’55]

14 Ornithology (Charlie Parker-B.Harris) [3’37]

Disc 4

February 18, 1950 - WNYC Radio Broadcast Jazz Festival

Miles Davis (tp) J.J. Johnson (tb) Stan Getz (ts) Tadd Dameron (p) Gene Ramey (b) Art Blakey (d)

1 Conception (George Shearing) [4’20]

2 Ray's Idea (Ray Brown-Gil Fuller) [6’13]

3 Max Is Making Wax (Charlie Parker) [4’11]

4 Woody'n You (Dizzy Gillespie) [5’57]

June 30, 1950 - NYC Birdland

Miles Davis (tp) J.J. Johnson (tb) Brew Moore (ts) Tadd Dameron (p) Curly Russell (b) Art Blakey (d)

5 Wee (Allen’s Alley) (Denzil Best) [11’20]

6 Ow ! (Dizzy Gillespie) [11’31]

7 Embraceable You (Gershwin) [4’15]

8 Max Is Making Wax (Charlie Parker) [6’31]

Disc 5

June 30, 1950 - NYC Birdland

Miles Davis, Fats Navarro (tp) J.J. Johnson (tb) Charlie Parker* (as) Brew Moore (ts) Walter Bishop Jr. (p) Curly Russell (b) Art Blakey, Roy Haynes° (d)

1 Hot House (Tadd Dameron-Bregman) [10’20]

2 Conception / Deception* (George Shearing / Miles Davis) [11’16]

3 Eronel / 52nd Street I (Thelonious Monk) [14’14]

4 52nd Street II°(Thelonious Monk) [5’04]

February 17, 1951 - NYC Birdland

Miles Davis (tp) J.J. Johnson (tb) Sonny Rollins (ts) Kenny Drew (p) Tommy Potter (b) Art Blakey (d)

5 Move (Denzil Best) [5’57]

6 Out Of The Blue (Evance) (Miles Davis) [6’07]

7 Half Nelson (Miles Davis) [7’58]

8 Tempus Fugit (Bud Powell) [6’34]

Disc 6

June 2, 1951 - NYC Birdland

Miles Davis (tp) J.J. Johnson (tb) Sonny Rollins (ts) Kenny Drew (p) Tommy Potter (b) Art Blakey (d)

1 Down (Miles Davis) [7’38]

2 Half Nelson (Miles Davis) [8’00]

3 Move (Denzil Best) [6’34]

September 29, 1951 - NYC Birdland

Miles Davis (tp) Eddie « Lockjaw » Davis, Big Nick Nicholas (ts) Billy Taylor (p) Charles Mingus (b) Art Blakey (d)

4 The Squirrel (Tadd Dameron) [9’14]

5 Move (Denzil Best) [6’46]

6 Lady Bird (Tadd Dameron) [5’57]

April 25, 1952 - NYC Birdland

Miles Davis (tp) Don Elliott (vib, mellophone*) Beryl Booker (p) Chuck Wayne (g) Clyde Lombardi (b) Connie Kay (d)

7 Rifftide (Coleman Hawkins) [3’37]

8 All the Things You Are (Kern-Hammerstein) [4’37]

9 The Squirrel* (Tadd Dameron) [3’25]

May 2, 1952 - NYC Birdland

Miles Davis (tp) Jackie McLean (as) Don Elliott (vib, mellophone*) Gil Coggins (p) Connie Henry (b) Connie Kay (d)

10 Out of the Blue (Evance) (Miles Davis) [5’47]

11 Confirmation* (Charlie Parker) [5’53] <

Disc 7

Spring 1952 - St. Louis, MO The Barrelhouse Club

Miles Davis (tp) Jimmy Forrest (ts) Charles Fox (p) John Mixon (b) Oscar Oldham (d) unknown (cga)

1 A Night In Tunisia (Dizzy Gillespie-Paparelli) [8’24]

2 Wee Dot (Jay Jay Johnson) [10’39]

3 What's New ? (Burke-Haggart) [7’29]

4 Perdido (Tizol-Lengsfelder-Drake) [9’24]

5 All The Things You Are (Kern-Hammerstein) [10’06]

6 Our Delight (Tadd Dameron) [7’24]

7 Lady Bird (Tadd Dameron) [6’43]

8 Ow ! (Dizzy Gillespie) [4’07]

9 Ray's Idea (Ray Brown-Gil Guller) [8’36]

Disc 8

May 3, 1952 - NYC Birdland

Miles Davis (tp) Jackie McLean (as) Don Elliott (vib, mellophone*) Gil Coggins (p) Connie Henry (b) Connie Kay (d)

1 Wee Dot* (Jay Jay Johnson) [6’31]

2 The Chase (Miles Davis) [6’26]

3 It Could Happen To You (Burke-Van Heusen) [4’43]

4 Out Of The Blue (Evance) (Miles Davis) [5’46]

Beginning of 1953 - Boston, MA Hi-Hat Club

Miles Davis (tp) Jay Migliori (ts) Al Walcott, Bob Freeman (p) Jimmy Woode (b) Jimmy Zitano (d)

5 Jumpin' With Symphony Sid (Lester Young) [1’48]

6 Tune Up (Miles Davis) [6’57]

7 Dig (Miles Davis) [8’02]

8 Darn That Dream (De Lange-Van Heusen) [4’28]

9 Ray's Idea (Ray Brown-Gil Fuller) [7’12]

10 Nice Work If You Can Get It (Gershwin) [5’36]

11 Wee Dot (Jay Jay Johnson) [5’57]

Disc 9

Beginning of 1953 - Boston, MA Hi-Hat Club (cont.)

Miles Davis (tp) Jay Migliori (ts) Al Walcott, Bob Freeman* (p) Jimmy Woode (b) Jimmy Zitano (d)

1 Alone Together (Schwartz-Dietz) [5’26]

2 Well, You Needn't (Thelonious Monk) [9’50]

3 A Night in Tunisia (Dizzy Gillespie-Paparelli) * [7’49]

4 Jumpin' with Symphony Sid (Lester Young) [2’07]

May 16, 1953 - NYC Birdland

Miles Davis (tp) Sahib Shihab (bars) Wade Legge (p) Lou Hackney (b) Al Jones (d) Joe Carroll* (vo) Candido Camero° (cga)

5 Move (Denzil Best) [5’37]

6 Tenderly (Lawrence-Gross) [4’44]

7 A Night in Tunisia° (Dizzy Gillespie-Paparelli) [5’56]

8 Dig° (Miles Davis) [3’51]

9 I Got Rythm* (Gershwin) [4’51]

May 23, 1953 - NYC Birdland

Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie (tp) Charlie Parker (as) Sahib Shihab (bars) Wade Legge (p) Lou Hackney (b) Al Jones (d) Joe Carroll (vo)

10 The Bluest Blues (Gary McFarland-Charles Thompson) [6’39]

11 On The Sunny Side Of The Street (Fields-McHugh) [2’52]

Disc 10

September 13, 1953 - Los Angeles, CA

Miles Davis, Rolf Ericson* (tp) Bud Shank (as, bars) Bob Cooper (ts) Lorraine Geller (p) Howard Rumsey (b) Max Roach (d)

1 Round Midnight (Monk-Williams-Hanighen) [5’44]

2 Night In Tunisia* (Gillespie-Paparelli) [11’59]

3 Infinity Promenade* (Shorty Rogers) [12’17]

July 17, 1955 - Newport, RI Newport Jazz Festival

Miles Davis (tp) Zoot Sims (ts) Gerry Mulligan (bars) Thelonious Monk (p)Percy Heath (b) Connie Kay (d)

4 Introduction by Duke Ellington [1’14]

5 Hackensack (Thelonious Monk) [8’09]

6 Round About Midnight (Thelonious Monk) [6’09]

7 Now's the Time (Charlie Parker) [8’46]

November 18, 1955 - NYC Basin Street Club, TV broadcast « The Steve Allen Tonight Show »

Miles Davis (tp) John Coltrane (ts) Red Garland (p) Paul Chambers (b) Philly Joe Jones (d)

8 Max Is Making Wax (Charlie Parker) [3’04]

9 It Never Entered My Mind (Rodgers-Hart) [2’55]

10 CDs - ADD - Mono

[king ubu]

same old same old... I have most or all of this on various boots on Charly, Jazz Unlimited (I know I know... but their having the Newport gig out that's now "never before released" on one of those new boxes is a bit weird, no?) and other labels, partly even on LP... and the Birth of the Cool stuff has been out on the non-RVG "Complete Birth of the Cool" - stellar stuff, by the way!

As usual, I'd say get the few things that were put out by reputable labels in a store, and get the rest by doing some trades... don't pay the bootleggers! (On the other hand, before I got into trading/bit-torrent circles, I'd have been oh so very glad to lay my hands on something like this...)

[jazzbo]

Yo, Flurin, I don't disagree with ya. . . but the Newport stuff put out by Columbia is just the one (big moment) track. Then again there was that "Newport and Miscellaneous" release that had all the Newport material on it before, likely the source for the tracks in this box set.

I've decided to translate "Never on cd before" as usually meaning "we've never put this out before. . . or have we?"

[brownie]

United Archives is a French label that takes advantage of the EU 50-year copyright laws! Another one!

Beside the Miles Davis box, they have issued 'Sarah Vaughan - 'The Columbia Years', 'Charlie Parker - 'The Last Years 1953-1954', 'Louis Armstrong - 'The Nice & Philadelphia Concerts 1948-1949' and probably others.

Nothing new under the sun.

Have not checked any of these sets.

[king ubu]

Yo, Flurin, I don't disagree with ya. . . but the Newport stuff put out by Columbia is just the one (big moment) track. Then again there was that "Newport and Miscellaneous" release that had all the Newport material on it before, likely the source for the tracks in this box set.

I've decided to translate "Never on cd before" as usually meaning "we've never put this out before. . . or have we?"

I didn't get the 2CD "Round About Midnight" reissue... yes, now I remember one reason why being that it only contained that one big moment track... I never really got that anyway... there's plenty of Miles from 1954 that is better, but the public probably hadn't noticed by then, I assume...

The "Miscellaneous Miles" CD is a good one to have, but I way overpayed it and in the meantime got all the stuff in various forms...

[jazzbo]

I actually think they did a great job with the "Round About Midnight" deluxe two cd set and would welcome more classic jazz lps done this way.

Specially if yourmusic.com picks them up!

[king ubu]

I am sure it's great, but I had the old CD and then got the 6CD Miles/Trane box and don't feel like buying it a third time... I assume the other, longer live date may sound quite a bit better than the version(s) I have, but still... I'd prefer seing them having some real jazz reissue programme, instead of just periodically re-re-reissuing their best selling albums (Miles, Weather Report, Mahavishnu...). At least they got Monk right (great, in my opinion), but then they can't even get Duke right...

[jazzbo]

Hey, I take what I can get. . . . My expectations of jazz reissue programs diminish as time goes by. The majors are all about the money. They have bigger needs as bigger beasts and overlook the 1% of buyers that we are. The copyright laws. . . well with floods of classic stuff coming in from Europe, we'll hardly see many of these titles from the majors that hold the best sources.

Ah well.

Yes, rebuying is silly. I do it for the stuff I really like, like RAM. . . . I have 99% of the Columbia/Sony Duke (gaps filled in nicely by Chronogical Classics and CSB France) so. . . I'll rebuy it when they get around to it. (The 200th birthday? I'm planning on being around, bionic parts and all.)

[Claude]

That's an interesting package. I don't mind if the title is not correct, as long as the sessions themselves are as complete as the previous official releases.

The box is slightly cheaper at Amazon.fr: http://www.amazon.fr/Complete-Live-Recordi.../dp/B000IXZ7GG/

BTW, "United Archives" is quite an ironic name for a company that simply copies the music from other labels CDs without asking. No need to feel guilty about that though, after the UK Treasury has said the current copyright duration in the EU is appropriate.

[tatifan]

Couldn't find this thread in my search, so created a new one needlessly.......anyhow, I'm porting over my comments from that thread about the apparent high quality master material dubbed and taken either with or without Sony France's blessing by a former high level Sony producer would indicate that these aren't just another typical series of bootlegs. The classical sets in the series are from materials that could not be simply cloned from existing releases. So this may be an ethical quandry of some sorts, but I'd be highly curious to get hands on reports about the quality of these sets, since Sony themselves seems unlikely to be issuing this stuff.

Edited January 19, 2007 by tatifan

[John L]

There is some good stuff on this box. Some of those Tadd Dameron sessions with Miles were including as filler material on the Bird's Eyes series. Often they ended up being the highlight of the discs. We don't have enough Tadd Dameron on wax.

Edited January 19, 2007 by John L

[JohnBlutarski]

Here are the contents:

Disc 1

September 11, 1948 - NYC Royal Roost

Miles Davis (tp) Mike Zwerin (tb) Junior Collins (frh) John Barber (tu) Lee Konitz (as) Gerry Mulligan (bars) John Lewis (p) Al McKibbon (b) Max Roach (d) Kenny Pancho Hagood* (vo) Gil Evans (arr, cond), John Lewis, Gerry Mulligan, (arr).

1 Birth Of The Cool Theme (Gil Evans) [0’18]

2 Move (Denzil Best) [4’50]

3 Moon Dreams (McGregor-Mercer) [3’03]

4 Budo (Miles Davis-Bud Powell) [4’23]

5 Godchild (George Wallington) [6’06]

6 S'il Vous Plaît (John Lewis) [4’34]

7 Darn That Dream* (De Lange-Van Heusen) [4’32]

8 Why Do I Love You ?* (Kern-Hammerstein) [3’46]

September 18, 1948 - NYC Royal Roost

Miles Davis (tp) Mike Zwerin (tb) Junior Collins (frh) John Barber (tu) Lee Konitz (as) Gerry Mulligan (bars) John Lewis (p) Al McKibbon (b) Max Roach (d) Gil Evans (arr, cond), John Lewis, Gerry Mulligan (arr).

9 Move (Denzil Best) [3’31]

10 Moon Dreams (McGregor-Mercer) [3’34]

11 Budo (Miles Davis-Bud Powell) [3’27]

BONUS : March 31, 1946 - Benny Carter Orchestra, Los Angeles Streets of Paris

Miles Davis (tpt) Al Grey (tb) Britt Woodman(tb) Benny Carter (as) Hubert "Bumps" Myers (ts) Sonny White (p) James Cannady (g) Thomas Moultrie (b) Percy Brice (d)

12 Just You, Just Me (R. Klages-J. Greer) [3’21]

BONUS August 1948 - Chicago Pershing Ballroom

Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Dave Burns, Willie Cook, Elmon Wright (tp) Jesse Tarrant, Andy Duryea (tb) John Brown, Ernie Henry (as) Joe Gayles, James Moody (ts) Cecil Paynes (bars) James Foreman Jr (p) Nelson Boyd (b) Teddy Stewart (d) Chano Pozo (cga)

13 Good Bait (Tadd Dameron-Count Basie) [2’28]

14 Unknown Ballad [0’32]

Disc 2

September 25, 1948 - NYC Royal Roost

Miles Davis (tp) Lee Konitz (as) John Lewis (p) Curly Russell (b) Max Roach (d) Kenny Pancho Hagood* (vo)

1 Half Nelson (Miles Davis) [5’55]

2 Chasin' The Bird (Charlie Parker) [5’55]

3 52nd Street Theme (Thelonious Monk) [4’56]

4 You Go To My Head* (Dizzy Gillespie-Coots) [5’49]

January 17, 1949 - NYC WPIX radio : All Star Jam Session

Miles Davis (tp) Kai Winding (tb) Buddy DeFranco (cl) Lucky Thompson, Charlie Ventura* (ts) Al Haig (p) Oscar Pettiford (b) Shelly Manne (d)

5 Anthropology (Charlie Parker) [3’27]

6 The Squirrel (Tadd Dameron) [4’19]

7 How High The Moon* (Lewis-Hamilton) [3’41]

February 19, 1949 - NYC Royal Roost

Miles Davis (tp) Kai Winding (tb) Sahib Shihab (as) Benjamin Lundy (ts)

Cecil Payne (bars) Tadd Dameron (p) John Collins (g) Curly Russell (b) Kenny Clarke (d) Carlos Vidal (cga)

8 Good Bait (Tadd Dameron-Count Basie) [3’30]

9 Focus(Tadd Dameron) [4’03]

10 April In Paris (Duke-Harburg) [3’03]

11 Sid’s Delight (Webb’s Delight) (Tadd Dameron) [3’47]

February 26, 1949 - NYC Royal Roost

Miles Davis (tp) Kai Winding (tb) Sahib Shihab (as) Benjamin Lundy (ts) Cecil Payne (bars) Tadd Dameron (p) John Collins (g) Curly Russell (b) Kenny Clarke (d) Carlos Vidal (cga)

12 Miles (Tadd Dameron) [3’38]

13 Casbah (Tadd Dameron) [3’36]

Disc 3

May 8 – 15, 1949 - Paris Salle Pleyel

Miles Davis (tp) James Moody (ts) Tadd Dameron (p) Barney Spieler (b) Kenny Clarke (d) Maurice Cullaz (speaker)

1 Rifftide (Coleman Hawkins) [4’11]

2 Good Bait (Tadd Dameron-Count Basie) [5’55]

3 Don't Blame Me (Fields-McHugh) [4’17]

4 The Squirrel (Tadd Dameron) [3’45]

5 Lady Bird (Tadd Dameron) [5’04]

6 All The Things You Are (Kern-Hammerstein) [4’20]

7 Wee (Allen’s Alley) (Denzil Best) [4’23]

8 Perdido (Wah Hoo) (Tizol-Lengsfelder-Drake) [5’33]

9 Embraceable You (Gershwin) [4’06]

10 Ornithology (Charlie Parker-B.Harris) [4’00]

May 15, 1949 - Paris Salle Pleyel

Aimé Barelli, Bill Coleman, Miles Davis, Kenny Dorham, Hot Lips Page (tp) « Big Chief » Russel Moore (tb) Hubert Rostaing (cl) Sidney Bechet, Pierre Braslavsky (ss) Charlie Parker (as) Don Byas, James Moody (ts) Bernard Pfeiffer (p) Hazy Osterwald (vib) Toots Thielemans (g) Tommy Potter (b) Max Roach (d)

11 Farewell Blues (Blues Final) (Traditionnel) [4’00]

December 25, 1949 - NYC Carnegie Hall - The Stars of Modern Jazz

Miles Davis (tp) Bennie Green (tb) Sonny Stitt (as) Serge Chaloff (bars) Bud Powell (p) Curly Russell (b) Max Roach (d)

12 Move (Denzil Best) [5’37]

13 Hot House (Tadd Dameron-Bregman) [7’55]

14 Ornithology (Charlie Parker-B.Harris) [3’37]

Disc 4

February 18, 1950 - WNYC Radio Broadcast Jazz Festival

Miles Davis (tp) J.J. Johnson (tb) Stan Getz (ts) Tadd Dameron (p) Gene Ramey (b) Art Blakey (d)

1 Conception (George Shearing) [4’20]

2 Ray's Idea (Ray Brown-Gil Fuller) [6’13]

3 Max Is Making Wax (Charlie Parker) [4’11]

4 Woody'n You (Dizzy Gillespie) [5’57]

June 30, 1950 - NYC Birdland

Miles Davis (tp) J.J. Johnson (tb) Brew Moore (ts) Tadd Dameron (p) Curly Russell (b) Art Blakey (d)

5 Wee (Allen’s Alley) (Denzil Best) [11’20]

6 Ow ! (Dizzy Gillespie) [11’31]

7 Embraceable You (Gershwin) [4’15]

8 Max Is Making Wax (Charlie Parker) [6’31]

Disc 5

June 30, 1950 - NYC Birdland

Miles Davis, Fats Navarro (tp) J.J. Johnson (tb) Charlie Parker* (as) Brew Moore (ts) Walter Bishop Jr. (p) Curly Russell (b) Art Blakey, Roy Haynes° (d)

1 Hot House (Tadd Dameron-Bregman) [10’20]

2 Conception / Deception* (George Shearing / Miles Davis) [11’16]

3 Eronel / 52nd Street I (Thelonious Monk) [14’14]

4 52nd Street II°(Thelonious Monk) [5’04]

February 17, 1951 - NYC Birdland

Miles Davis (tp) J.J. Johnson (tb) Sonny Rollins (ts) Kenny Drew (p) Tommy Potter (b) Art Blakey (d)

5 Move (Denzil Best) [5’57]

6 Out Of The Blue (Evance) (Miles Davis) [6’07]

7 Half Nelson (Miles Davis) [7’58]

8 Tempus Fugit (Bud Powell) [6’34]

Disc 6

June 2, 1951 - NYC Birdland

Miles Davis (tp) J.J. Johnson (tb) Sonny Rollins (ts) Kenny Drew (p) Tommy Potter (b) Art Blakey (d)

1 Down (Miles Davis) [7’38]

2 Half Nelson (Miles Davis) [8’00]

3 Move (Denzil Best) [6’34]

September 29, 1951 - NYC Birdland

Miles Davis (tp) Eddie « Lockjaw » Davis, Big Nick Nicholas (ts) Billy Taylor (p) Charles Mingus (b) Art Blakey (d)

4 The Squirrel (Tadd Dameron) [9’14]

5 Move (Denzil Best) [6’46]

6 Lady Bird (Tadd Dameron) [5’57]

April 25, 1952 - NYC Birdland

Miles Davis (tp) Don Elliott (vib, mellophone*) Beryl Booker (p) Chuck Wayne (g) Clyde Lombardi (b) Connie Kay (d)

7 Rifftide (Coleman Hawkins) [3’37]

8 All the Things You Are (Kern-Hammerstein) [4’37]

9 The Squirrel* (Tadd Dameron) [3’25]

May 2, 1952 - NYC Birdland

Miles Davis (tp) Jackie McLean (as) Don Elliott (vib, mellophone*) Gil Coggins (p) Connie Henry (b) Connie Kay (d)

10 Out of the Blue (Evance) (Miles Davis) [5’47]

11 Confirmation* (Charlie Parker) [5’53] <

Disc 7

Spring 1952 - St. Louis, MO The Barrelhouse Club

Miles Davis (tp) Jimmy Forrest (ts) Charles Fox (p) John Mixon (b) Oscar Oldham (d) unknown (cga)

1 A Night In Tunisia (Dizzy Gillespie-Paparelli) [8’24]

2 Wee Dot (Jay Jay Johnson) [10’39]

3 What's New ? (Burke-Haggart) [7’29]

4 Perdido (Tizol-Lengsfelder-Drake) [9’24]

5 All The Things You Are (Kern-Hammerstein) [10’06]

6 Our Delight (Tadd Dameron) [7’24]

7 Lady Bird (Tadd Dameron) [6’43]

8 Ow ! (Dizzy Gillespie) [4’07]

9 Ray's Idea (Ray Brown-Gil Guller) [8’36]

Disc 8

May 3, 1952 - NYC Birdland

Miles Davis (tp) Jackie McLean (as) Don Elliott (vib, mellophone*) Gil Coggins (p) Connie Henry (b) Connie Kay (d)

1 Wee Dot* (Jay Jay Johnson) [6’31]

2 The Chase (Miles Davis) [6’26]

3 It Could Happen To You (Burke-Van Heusen) [4’43]

4 Out Of The Blue (Evance) (Miles Davis) [5’46]

Beginning of 1953 - Boston, MA Hi-Hat Club

Miles Davis (tp) Jay Migliori (ts) Al Walcott, Bob Freeman (p) Jimmy Woode (b) Jimmy Zitano (d)

5 Jumpin' With Symphony Sid (Lester Young) [1’48]

6 Tune Up (Miles Davis) [6’57]

7 Dig (Miles Davis) [8’02]

8 Darn That Dream (De Lange-Van Heusen) [4’28]

9 Ray's Idea (Ray Brown-Gil Fuller) [7’12]

10 Nice Work If You Can Get It (Gershwin) [5’36]

11 Wee Dot (Jay Jay Johnson) [5’57]

Disc 9

Beginning of 1953 - Boston, MA Hi-Hat Club (cont.)

Miles Davis (tp) Jay Migliori (ts) Al Walcott, Bob Freeman* (p) Jimmy Woode (b) Jimmy Zitano (d)

1 Alone Together (Schwartz-Dietz) [5’26]

2 Well, You Needn't (Thelonious Monk) [9’50]

3 A Night in Tunisia (Dizzy Gillespie-Paparelli) * [7’49]

4 Jumpin' with Symphony Sid (Lester Young) [2’07]

May 16, 1953 - NYC Birdland

Miles Davis (tp) Sahib Shihab (bars) Wade Legge (p) Lou Hackney (b) Al Jones (d) Joe Carroll* (vo) Candido Camero° (cga)

5 Move (Denzil Best) [5’37]

6 Tenderly (Lawrence-Gross) [4’44]

7 A Night in Tunisia° (Dizzy Gillespie-Paparelli) [5’56]

8 Dig° (Miles Davis) [3’51]

9 I Got Rythm* (Gershwin) [4’51]

May 23, 1953 - NYC Birdland

Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie (tp) Charlie Parker (as) Sahib Shihab (bars) Wade Legge (p) Lou Hackney (b) Al Jones (d) Joe Carroll (vo)

10 The Bluest Blues (Gary McFarland-Charles Thompson) [6’39]

11 On The Sunny Side Of The Street (Fields-McHugh) [2’52]

Disc 10

September 13, 1953 - Los Angeles, CA

Miles Davis, Rolf Ericson* (tp) Bud Shank (as, bars) Bob Cooper (ts) Lorraine Geller (p) Howard Rumsey (b) Max Roach (d)

1 Round Midnight (Monk-Williams-Hanighen) [5’44]

2 Night In Tunisia* (Gillespie-Paparelli) [11’59]

3 Infinity Promenade* (Shorty Rogers) [12’17]

July 17, 1955 - Newport, RI Newport Jazz Festival

Miles Davis (tp) Zoot Sims (ts) Gerry Mulligan (bars) Thelonious Monk (p)Percy Heath (b) Connie Kay (d)

4 Introduction by Duke Ellington [1’14]

5 Hackensack (Thelonious Monk) [8’09]

6 Round About Midnight (Thelonious Monk) [6’09]

7 Now's the Time (Charlie Parker) [8’46]

November 18, 1955 - NYC Basin Street Club, TV broadcast « The Steve Allen Tonight Show »

Miles Davis (tp) John Coltrane (ts) Red Garland (p) Paul Chambers (b) Philly Joe Jones (d)

8 Max Is Making Wax (Charlie Parker) [3’04]

9 It Never Entered My Mind (Rodgers-Hart) [2’55]

10 CDs - ADD - Mono

any good linernotes?

[Durium]

MILES DAVIS

The Complete Live Recordings 1948 - 1955

This great, low priced 10 CD box of United Archives is very nice designed and has a complete discographical information inside. I will be clear, that the sound quality of the rare live recordings ( some were cut from private tapes, others from airshots) is not always from the same high standards as we like to have today, but I think this set is a must for everybody who wants to study Miles carreer from day to day.

Miles Davis live at the Paris Jazz Festival of 1949

Keep swinging

Durium

[JohnBlutarski]

any comment on this one?

same series other years?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Complete-Live-Reco...im_m_h__title_1

JB

Edited January 24, 2008 by JohnBlutarski

[Enterprise Server]

This great, low priced 10 CD box of United Archives is very nice designed and has a complete discographical information inside. I will be clear, that the sound quality of the rare live recordings ( some were cut from private tapes, others from airshots) is not always from the same high standards as we like to have today, but I think this set is a must for everybody who wants to study Miles carreer from day to day.

I agree. Although not complete and having a mediocre to poor sonic quality, the historical significance of the music outweighs the latter....IMO.

[PristineAudio]

I'd be interested to hear whether they did anything notable to the sound quality of the Paris material, as I've made a start on this myself with what I felt was quite reasonable results given the quality of the source:

Before - After - Before (MP3 sample)

It's still some way away, but heading in the right direction. If anyone's heard this set, is it worth continuing on the Paris recordings or have they managed something with it?

[JETman]

Does anybody know of a retailer (preferably in the US) where either or both of these boxed sets can be purchased? Any help would be appreciated.