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Miles Davis

Title: The Quintessence (2CD)

Label: Fremeaux

Cat No:FA238
Format:CD

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Discovery Records
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Mid-price, 34 track, 2 CD Set compiling key tracks from a six year period as crucial to Miles' progress as an artist as to the development of jazz music, and modern music in general.

These tracks take the listener from watershed Be Bop recordings in 1945, when Charlie Parker hired the 19 year old trumpeter (they had played together in the Billy Eckstine big band); through a series of all-star Parker band sessions in 1947; on to the legendary sequence of Birth of the Cool recordings with Gerry Mulligan, Gil Evans, John Lewis, Lee Konitz, etc.

These are interspersed with Miles' work with the forward-looking Tadd Dameron, his 1949 Festival International de Jazz appearances, and New York sessions with Sarah Vaughan. This set finishes with the beginning of Miles' important Prestige recordings with Sonny Rollins, Jackie McLean, Art Blakey, etc

Track Listing for The Quintessence (2CD)
CD 1
01. Now's the time
02. Billie's bounce
03. Cheryl
04. Buzzy
05. Milestones
06. Half Nelson
07. Dewey Square
08. Bird of Paradise
09. Bird of Paradise
10. Quasimodo
11. S'il vous plait
12. Ah-leu-cha
13. Constellation
14. Perhaps
15. Marmaduke
16. Overtime
17. Jeru
18. Godchild

CD 2
01. Boplicity
02. Rifftide
03. Don't blame me
04. All the things you are
05. Embraceable you
06. Deception
07. Moondreams
08. It might as well be spring
09. Mean to me
10. Au privave
11. Star Eyes
12. Blue Room
13. Ezz-thetic
14. Bluing
15. My old flame
16. It's only a paper moon

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