The Complete Columbia Studio Recordings Box set

This set has now been repackaged in a DVD sized Ecolbook which is the width of a normal CD making the set more compact & easier to store. In the early 1960s, two giants of jazz went into the studios to collaborate on some of the most haunting, beautiful music ever. Miles was, by this time, a jazz star, a great trumpet player, composer and bandleader (his bands would be 'finishing schools' for future titans: John Coltrane, Bill Evans,Dave Holland). Gil Evans was a subtly superb composer and arranger, who wrote for the big band of Claude Thornhill and singers Johnny Mathis and Helen Merrill, as well as the small groups of Gerry Mulligan and Teddy Charles, and would go on to leading his own edgy, modern big band (he even recorded an album of Jimi Hendrix songs!).
This six-CD set, comprises, alternate takes & all, the Davis/Evans albums Miles Ahead, Porgy and Bess, Sketches of Spain, Quiet Nights, and Plus 19. This is some of Miles' most gorgeous playing in intricate, thoughtful, lush and majestic orchestral settings, with more than a few subtle classical shadings. It is elaborately annotated (it has CD-sized "miniatures" of original album covers) and a treasure forfans of Miles, Evans, orchestral jazz and heartfelt instrumental music.

Disc: 1
1. Springsville
2. The Maids Of Cadiz
3. The Duke
4. My Ship
5. Miles Ahead
6. Blues For Pablo
7. New Rhumba
8. The Meaning Of The Blues
9. Lament
10. I Don't Wanna Be Kissed (By Anyone But You)
11. Springsville
12. The Maids Of Cadiz
13. The Duke
14. My Ship
15. Miles Ahead
16. Blues For Pablo
17. New Rhumba
18. The Meaning Of The Blues
19. Lament
20. I Don't Wanna Be Kissed (By Anyone But You)
21. Pause Track*

Disc: 2
1. Buzzard Song (from 'Porgy & Bess")
2. Bess, You Is My Woman Now (from 'Porgy & Bess')
3. Gone
4. Gone, Gone, Gone (from 'Porgy & Bess')
5. Summertime (From 'Porgy & Bess')
6. Oh Bess, Oh Where's My Bess (from 'Porgy & Bess')
7. Prayer (Oh Doctor Jesus) (from 'Porgy & Bess')
8. Fishermen, Strawberry And Devil Crab
9. My Man's Gone Now (from 'Porgy & Bess')
10. It Ain't Necessarily So (from 'Porgy & Bess')
11. Here Come De Honey Man (from 'Porgy & Bess')
12. I Loves You, Porgy (from 'Porgy & Bess')
13. There's A Boat That's Leaving Soon For New York (from 'Porgy & Bess')
14. Gone
15. Summertime (from 'Porgy & Bess')
16. Prayer (Oh Doctor Jesus) (from 'Porgy & Bess')
17. I Loves You, Porgy (from 'Porgy & Bess')
18. There's A Boat That's Leaving Soon For New York (from 'Porgy & Bess')
19. Oh Bess, Oh Where's My Bess (from 'Porgy & Bess')
20. Gone
21. Pause Track*

Disc: 3
1. Concierto De Aranjuez (Adagio)
2. Will O' The Wisp
3. The Pan Piper
4. Saeta
5. Solea
6. Song Of Our Country
7. Saeta
8. The Pan Piper
9. Concierto De Aranjuez (Adagio)
10. Concierto De Aranjuez
11. Song Of Our Country
12. Pause Track*

Disc: 4
1. Song No. 2
2. Once Upon A Summertime
3. Aos Pes Da Cruz
4. Song No. 1
5. Wait Till You See Her
6. Corcovado (Quiet Nights Of Quiet Stars)
7. Blue Xmas
8. Nothing Like You
9. Devil May Care
10. The Time Of The Barracudas
11. Falling Water
12. Falling Water
13. Falling Water
14. Falling Water
15. Springsville
16. The Maids Of Cadiz
17. The Maids Of Cadiz
18. Lament
19. The Duke
20. I Don't Wanna Be Kissed (By Anyone But You)

Disc: 5
1. Springsville
2. Springsville
3. The Maids Of Cadiz
4. The Maids Of Cadiz
5. The Maids Of Cadiz
6. Count Off For The Duke
7. The Duke
8. The Duke
9. My Ship
10. Miles Ahead
11. Miles Ahead
12. Miles Ahead
13. Studio Discussion
14. My Ship
15. Miles Ahead
16. Blues For Pablo
17. New Rhumba
18. Lament
19. I Don't Wanna Be Kissed (By Anyone But You)
20. I Don't Wanna Be Kissed (By Anyone But You)
21. Studio Discussion
22. I Don't Wanna Be Kissed (By Anyone But You)
23. Pause Track*

Disc: 6
1. Studio Discussion
2. Springsville
3. Studio Discussion
4. Miles Ahead
5. I Don't Wanna Be Kissed (By Anyone But You)
6. Springsville
7. Springsville
8. Springsville
9. Springsville
10. Miles Ahead
11. Miles Ahead
12. I Don't Wanna Be Kissed (By Anyone But You)
13. I Don't Wanna Be Kissed (By Anyone But You)
14. I Don't Wanna Be Kissed (By Anyone But You)
15. I Don't Wanna Be Kissed (By Anyone But You)
16. I Don't Wanna Be Kissed (By Anyone But You)
17. Miles Ahead
18. Gone
19. Gone, Gone, Gone (from 'Porgy & Bess')
20. Studio Discussion
21. Bess, You Is My Woman Now (from 'Porgy & Bess')
22. It Ain't Necessarily So (from 'Porgy & Bess')
23. Oh Bess, Oh Where's My Bess (from 'Porgy & Bess')
24. I Loves You, Porgy (from 'Porgy & Bess')
25. There's A Boat That's Leaving Soon For New York (from 'Porgy & Bess')
26. My Man's Gone Now (from 'Porgy & Bess')
27. Song Of Our Country
28. Concierto De Aranjuez (Adagio)
29. Concierto De Aranjuez (Adagio)
30. Pause Track*