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Miles Davis – Miles Davis Quintet in Concert Live at the Olympia, Paris, November 30 – 1957 (Live) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:12:35 minutes | 701 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Fresh Sound Records

The recording of this historic concert is presented in its entirety for the first time in this edition. The remastered original tapes have been used to produce this CD, ensuring excellent sound quality.

With little publicity and only one star arrived from America, Miles Davis, Bruno Coquatrix, owner and manager of the Olympia, accomplished an impressive feat by presenting a sold-out concert on Saturday, November 30, 1957, at 6 p.m. André Hodeir in Jazz Hot had written, “This concert by Miles Davis was one of the most beautiful jazz concerts we have ever heard in Paris. Brilliantly supported by Kenny Clarke, René Urtreger, Pierre Michelot, and Barney Wilen, the great trumpeter gave the best of himself in many passages.”

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Miles Davis – Miles Davis Quintet in Concert Live at the Olympia, Paris, November 30 – 1957 (Live) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:12:35 minutes | 701 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | ©

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Miles Davis – Porgy and Bess (Mono Version) (1959/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 51:48 minutes | 649 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia – Legacy

Tomes are available annotating the importance of this recording. The musical and social impact of Miles Davis, his collaborative efforts with Gil Evans, and in particular their reinvention of George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess are indeed profound. However, the most efficient method of extricating the rhetoric and opining is to experience the recording. Few other musical teams would have had the ability to remain true to the undiluted spirit and multifaceted nuance of this epic work. However, no other musical teams were Miles Davis and Gil Evans. It was Evans’ intimate knowledge of the composition as well as the performer that allowed him to so definitively capture the essence of both. The four dates needed to complete work on Porgy and Bess include contributions from several members of his most recent musical aggregate: Julian “Cannonball” Adderley (alto sax), Paul Chambers (bass), and Jimmy Cobb (drums). Although the focus and emphasis is squarely on Davis throughout, the contributions of the quartet on “Prayer (Oh Doctor Jesus),” “I Loves You, Porgy,” and “There’s a Boat That’s Leaving Soon for New York” are immeasurable. They provide a delicate balance in style and, under the direction of Evans, incorporate much of the same energy and intonation here as they did to their post-bop recordings. There is infinitely more happening on Porgy and Bess, however, with much of the evidence existing in the subtle significance of the hauntingly lyrical passages from Danny Banks’ (alto flute) solos, which commence on “Fishermen, Strawberry and Devil Crab.” Or the emotive bass and tuba duet that runs throughout “Buzzard Song.” The impeccable digital remastering and subsequent reissue – which likewise applies to the Miles Davis & Gil Evans: The Complete Columbia Studio Recordings box set – only magnifies the refulgence of Porgy and Bess. Likewise, two previously unissued performances have been appended to the original baker’s dozen. No observation or collection of American jazz can be deemed complete without this recording.

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Miles Davis – Seven Steps To Heaven (2023 Remaster) (1963/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 46:13 minutes | 490 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia – Legacy

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). It presents the Miles Davis Quintet in transition, with the New York session introducing the rhythm section of Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter and Tony Williams, who would become Davis’ regular sidemen for the next five years. Upon release, the album was Davis’ most successful on the Billboard pop LPs chart up to that point, peaking at number 62.

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Miles Davis – Turnaround: Rare Miles From The Complete On The Corner Sessions (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 39:20 minutes | 466 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia – Legacy

Miles Davis’ On The Corner recently turned 50 and with each decade, its space age funk has only become more influential to generations of jazz, electronic, post-punk and especially hip hop fans and artists. This new vinyl release, Turnaround, cherry-picks four stellar cuts from the celebrated expanded project The Complete On The Corner Sessions, released in 2007 as a collection of key recordings captured before and after the release of On The Corner.

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Miles Davis – MILES DAVIS INTEGRAL 1957 – 1962 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 13:53:58 minutes | 4,70 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Diggers Factory

A monumental innovator, icon, and maverick, trumpeter Miles Davis helped define the course of jazz as well as popular culture in the 20th century, bridging the gap between bebop, modal music, funk, and fusion. Throughout most of his 50-year career, Davis played the trumpet in a lyrical, introspective style, often employing a stemless Harmon mute to make his sound more personal and intimate. It was a style that, along with his brooding stage persona, earned him the nickname “Prince of Darkness.” However, Davis proved to be a dazzlingly protean artist, moving into fiery modal jazz in the ’60s and electrified funk and fusion in the ’70s, drenching his trumpet in wah-wah pedal effects along the way. More than any other figure in jazz, Davis helped establish the direction of the genre with a steady stream of boundary-pushing recordings, among them 1957’s chamber jazz album Birth of the Cool (which collected recordings from 1949-1950), 1959’s modal masterpiece Kind of Blue, 1960’s orchestral album Sketches of Spain, and 1970’s landmark fusion recording Bitches Brew. Davis’ own playing was obviously at the forefront of those changes, but he also distinguished himself as a bandleader, regularly surrounding himself with sidemen and collaborators who likewise moved in new directions, including the luminaries John Coltrane, Herbie Hancock, Bill Evans, Wayne Shorter, Chick Corea, and many more. While he remains one of the most referenced figures in jazz, a major touchstone for generations of trumpeters (including Wynton Marsalis, Chris Botti, and Nicholas Payton), his music reaches far beyond the jazz tradition, and can be heard in the genre-bending approach of performers across the musical spectrum, ranging from funk and pop to rock, electronica, hip-hop, and more.

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Miles Davis – 5 Essentials of Miles Davis (Mono Version) (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 31:51 minutes | 591 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BnF Collection

Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926 – September 28, 1991) was an American trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th-century music. Davis adopted a variety of musical directions in a five-decade career that kept him at the forefront of many major stylistic developments in jazz.
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