Cat No JT934

• The complete original album “Miles Ahead” (1957) and as a bonus, the complete album, “Blue Moods” (1955), an introspective LP made by Miles with a quintet featuring Charles Mingus & Elvin Jones.

• Although Miles Ahead was Miles Davis' first recording with the Gil Evans Orchestra, it was certainly not Evans and Davis' first collaboration. They had known each other since the mid-forties and were the architects behind “Birth of the Cool” (1948-49), & had recorded live from the Royal Roost in New York & in the studio.

• Miles Ahead was a completely refined product in which the arrangements, the repertoire and the mood of every improvisation were carefully selected. This edition utilizes the original album cover, not frequently seen because Miles himself ordered it changed after the initial print.

• "This is an extraordinarily well done album with absolutely no point at which you can wish for more. Miles' solos throughout have an almost ascetic purity about them." Ralph J. Gleason, ***** Downbeat (1957).

• Personnel : Miles Davis, flugelhorn with The Gil Evans Orchestra, including : Ernie Royal, Taft Jordan, Frank Rehak, Jimmy Cleveland, Tom Mitchell, Willie Ruf, Lee Konitz, Danny Bank, Sid Cooper, Gil Evans, Wynton Kelly (p), Paul Chambers, Art Taylor (d) - and on “Blue Moods” Miles Davis (tp) with Britt Woodman (tb), Teddy Charles (vib), Charles Mingus (b), Elvin Jones (d). Total time: 63:50 - 14 tracks.