The Columbia Years 1955 - 1985 (Display Box)
The Columbia Years 1955 - 1985
This was the first real attempt by Columbia to make any comprehensive sense of Miles Davis colossal output for the label. This set, then, was bound to be controversial no matter how it turned out, but even so, Columbia could have done better with a strictly chronological approach. Instead producer/compiler Jeff Rosen had the cockeyed notion of organizing each of the original five LPs around a single theme. Disc one was called Blues Disc two was devoted to Standards Disc three had Miles Davis Originals Disc four was something vaguely entitled Moods and all of the electric recordings were segregated on Disc five (the CDs naturally screw up the "logic" with overlaps). Thus, the first four sections jam together all kinds of unrelated sessions from different eras and the listener never gets any idea of how Miles' music evolved and changed over the years. There are only four outtakes, three of which are gratuitous alternate takes, and the fourth is a live version of "I Thought About You." However, The Columbia Years stands as a casual collage -- the only way, actually, to acquire a bop to-rock fairly representative selection of Miles from those decades in one package. Also one must admit that the electric section, despite the chronological chaos, is put together very cleverly, opening with precisely the hottest stretch of music from Live-Evil (the opening 3-and-a-half-minutes of "Sivad" and closing with the long, swaggering "Miles Runs the Voodoo Down" from Bitches Brew Nat Hentoff s biographical essay makes good reading -- and of course, along the way you'll hear some of the greatest music of the 20th century. ~ Richard S. Ginell, All Music Guide
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The Columbia Years 1955 - 1985 (Display Box)
- UPC:
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- Label:
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Columbia
- Released:
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8/28/2001
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0
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1
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Music
| | Title | Time |
Preview
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| 1 | Generique | 2:46 |
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| 2 | My Funny Valentine | 14:56 |
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| 3 | Eighty-One | 6:13 |
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| 4 | Budo | 5:01 |
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| 5 | Masqualero | 8:52 |
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| 6 | Star On Cicely | 4:26 |
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| 7 | Footprints | 7:47 |
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| 8 | Fall | 6:34 |
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| 9 | It's About That Time | 11:27 |
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| 10 | Someday My Prince Will Come | 5:43 |
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Credits »
Steven Berkowitz - Coordination
Teo Macero - Producer
Mark Wilder - Digital Mastering
Mark Wilder - Remixing
Mark Wilder - Remastering
Jim Marshall - Photography
Don Hunstein - Photography
Christopher Austopchuk - Art Direction
David Gahr - Photography
Fred Lombardi - Photography
Hank Parker - Photography
Mark Malabrigo - Cover Photo
Mark Malabrigo - Photo Treatment
Howard Roberts - Producer
Seth Foster - Digital Mastering
Marvin Koner - Photography
Leigh Wiener - Photography
Al Avakian - Photography
Nathaniel Brewster - Research
William Gottlieb - Photography
Gil Evans Orchestra - ?
Irving Townsend - Producer
Don DeVito - A&R
Dr. George Butler - A&R
Miles Davis - Main Performer
Miles Davis - Producer
Diane Lapson - Production Assistant
Art Maillet - Photography
Elizabeth VanItallie - Booklet Design
Elizabeth VanItallie - Design
Jeff Rosen - Compilation Producer
Jeff Rosen - Compilation
Jeff Rosen - Producer
Cal Lampley - Producer
Jeff Jones - Coordination
Howard Roberts - Producer
Gil Evans - Conductor
Gil Evans - Arranger
George Avakian - Producer
Dennis Stock - Photography
Marcel Romano - Producer
Vernon Smith - Photography
Amy Herot - Project Coordinator
Nat Hentoff - Text
Nat Hentoff - Liner Notes
Robert Irving III - Producer
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