Miles Davis & Gil Evans: The Complete Columbia Studio Recordings is a box set of music by jazz musicians Miles Davis

Miles Davis

Miles Dewey Davis III was an American jazz musician, trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. Widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Miles Davis was, with his musical groups, at the forefront of several major developments in jazz music, including bebop, cool jazz,...

 and Gil Evans

Gil Evans

Gil Evans was a jazz pianist, arranger, composer and bandleader, active in the United States...

 originally released on CD in 1996 and remastered and re-released in 2004. It collects work from 1957 through 1968 at Columbia Records recording studios.

Miles Davis and Gil Evans had worked together on Davis' landmark 1949 album Birth of the Cool

Birth of the Cool

Birth of the Cool is a compilation album by American jazz musician Miles Davis, released in 1957 on Capitol Records. It compiles twelve songs recorded by Davis's nonet for the label over the course of three sessions during 1949 and 1950...

. Evans was a distinguished soloist, but it was his role as arranger that is well-illustrated here with alternate and working takes.

Track listing

Disc 1 - Miles Ahead (masters released on Miles Ahead

Miles Ahead

Miles Ahead is a jazz album by Miles Davis that was released in 1957 on Columbia CL 1041. This was the first album following Birth of the Cool that Davis recorded with Gil Evans, with whom he would go on to release albums such as Porgy and Bess and Sketches of Spain...

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1. "Springsville" (master) - 3:28
2. "The Maids of Cadiz" (master) - 3:59
3. "The Duke" (master) - 3:28
4. "My Ship" (master) - 4:28
5. "Miles Ahead" (master) - 3:29
6. "Blues For Pablo" (master) - 5:19
7. "New Rhumba" (master) - 4:35
8. "The Meaning of the Blues" (master) - 2:50
9. "Lament" (master) - 2:16
10. "I Don't Wanna Be Kissed (By Anyone But You)" (master) - 3:07
11. "Springsville" (remake take 7) - 3:16
12. "The Maids of Cadiz" (take 1) - 3:57
13. "The Duke" (take 11) - 3:32
14. "My Ship" (take 1) - 4:23
15. "Miles Ahead" (take 4) - 3:32
16. "Blues For Pablo" (take 1) - 3:01
17. "New Rhumba" (take 5) - 4:45
18. "The Meaning of the Blues" (rehearsal take) - 2:49
19. "Lament" (rehearsal take) - 2:20
20. "I Don't Wanna Be Kissed (By Anyone But You) (Take 8)" - 3:11

Disc 2 - Porgy And Bess (masters released on Porgy and Bess

Porgy and Bess (Miles Davis album)

Porgy and Bess is a studio album by jazz musician Miles Davis, released in 1958 on Columbia Records. The album features arrangements by Davis and collaborator Gil Evans from George Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess. The album was recorded in four sessions on July 22, July 29, August 4, and August 18,...

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1. "Buzzard Song" (master) - 4:09
2. "Bess, You Is My Woman Now" (master) - 5:12
3. "Gone" (master) - 3:38
4. "Gone, Gone, Gone" (master) - 2:05
5. "Summertime" (master) - 3:21
6. "Oh Bess, Oh Where's My Bess" (master) - 4:31
7. "Prayer (Oh Doctor Jesus)" (master) - 4:42
8. "Fisherman, Strawberry, Devil Crab" (master) - 4:11
9. "My Man's Gone Now" (master) - 6:16
10. "It Ain't Necessarily So" (master) - 4:25
11. "Here Come De Honey Man" (master) - 1:20
12. "I Loves You, Porgy" (master) - 3:43
13. "There's a Boat That's Leaving" (master) - 3:28
14. "Gone" (take 3) - 3:40
15. "Summertime" (take 2) - 3:19
16. "Prayer (Oh Doctor Jesus)" (take 2) - 4:16
17. "I Loves You, Porgy" (take 1, second version) - 4:17
18. "There's a Boat That's Leaving..." (take 2) - 3:41
19. "Oh Bess, Oh Where's My Bess" (take 5) - 4:22
20. "Gone" (take 4) - 3:40

Disc 3 - Sketches Of Spain (masters released on Sketches of Spain

Sketches of Spain

Sketches of Spain is an album by Miles Davis, recorded between November 1959 and March 1960 at the Columbia 30th Street Studio in New York City....

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1. "Concierto De Aranjuez (Adagio)" (master) - 16:23
2. "Will O' the Wisp" (master) - 3:50
3. "The Pan Piper" (master) - 23:43
4. "Saeta" (master) - 5:08
5. "Solea" (master) - 12:24
6. "Song of Our Country" (master) - 3:29
7. "Saeta" (full version of master) - 6:05
8. "The Pan Piper" (take 1) - 19:30
9. "Concierto De Aranjuez (Adagio)" (alternate take, part one) - 12:03
10. "Concierto De Aranjuez (Adagio)" (alternate take, part two) - 3:32
11. "Song of Our Country" (take 14) - 3:11

Disc 4 - Quiet Nights And More (masters released on Quiet Nights

Quiet Nights (Miles Davis and Gil Evans album)

-Personnel:* Miles Davis — trumpet* Gil Evans — arranger, conductor* Shorty Baker, Bernie Glow, Louis Mucci, Ernie Royal — trumpets* J.J. Johnson, Frank Rehak — trombones* Ray Alonge, Don Corrado, Julius Watkins — french horns* Bill Barber — tuba...

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1. "Song No: 2" (master) - 1:40
2. "Once Upon a Summertime" (master) - 3:27
3. "Aos Pes Da Cruz" (master) - 4:18
4. "Song No: 1" (master) - 4:37
5. "Wait Till You See Her" (master) - 4:06
6. "Corcovado" (master) - 2:45
7. "Blue Xmas" (master) - 2:43
8. "Nothing Like You" (master) - 2:00
9. "Devil May Care" (master) - 3:29
10. "The Time of the Barracudas" (master) - 12:48
11. "Falling Water" (take 4) - 3:45
12. "Falling Water" (take 6) - 4:25
13. "Falling Water" (take 8) - 4:17
14. "Falling Water" (take 9) - 4:23
15. "Springsville" (take 5) - 3:34
16. "The Maids of Cadiz" (take 11) - 4:06
17. "The Maids of Cadiz" (take 11, insert 1) - 2:38
18. "Lament (Medley)" - (take 2) - 2:37
19. "The Duke" (take 1) - 3:30
20. "I Don't Wanna Be Kissed (By Anyone But You)" (CK 53225 issued version) - 3:07

Disc 5 - The Making Of Miles Ahead

Miles Ahead

Miles Ahead is a jazz album by Miles Davis that was released in 1957 on Columbia CL 1041. This was the first album following Birth of the Cool that Davis recorded with Gil Evans, with whom he would go on to release albums such as Porgy and Bess and Sketches of Spain...

1. "Springsville" (rehearsal sequence) - 7:01
2. "Springsville" (rehearsal w/ piano) - 2:32
3. "The Maids of Cadiz" (take 9) - 0:34
4. "The Maids of Cadiz" (take 10) - 4:12
5. "The Maids of Cadiz" (rehearsal sequence)
6. "Count Off For the Duke" (take 3) - 0:37
7. "The Duke" (take 8) - 3:33
8. "The Duke" (piano take 3) - 1:55
9. "My Ship" (take 6) - 4:39
10. "Miles Ahead" (rehearsal sequence) - 1:40
11. "Miles Ahead" (take 12) - 3:34
12. "Miles Ahead" (take 15) - 3:31
13. Studio Discussion - 0:30
14. "My Ship" (take 7) - 4:41
15. "Miles Ahead" (piano insert - mono) - 3:09
16. "Blues For Pablo" (rehearsal sequence) - 5:54
17. "New Rhumba" (take 2) - 4:40
18. "Lament" (take 1) - 2:24
19. "I Don't Wanna Be Kissed (By Anyone But You)" (rehearsal) - 2:13
20. "I Don't Wanna Be Kissed (By Anyone But You)" (take 5) - 2:58
21. Studio Discussion - 0:35
22. "I Don't Wanna Be Kissed (By Anyone But You)" (piano take 4) - 2:57

Disc 6 - Alternate And Rehearsal Takes

1. Studio Discussion - 0:21
2. "Springsville" (take 8 w/out overdubs) - 3:33
3. Studio Discussion - 0:06
4. "Miles Ahead" (take 11 w/out overdubs) - 3:31
5. "I Don't Wanna Be Kissed (By Anyone But You)" (take 3 w/out overdubs) - 2:59
6. "Springsville" (overdub take 1) - 2:07
7. "Springsville" (overdubbed solos 4-5) - 2:20
8. "Springsville" (overdubbed solos 6-9) - 2:31
9. "Springsville" (issued overdubbed solo) - 0:26
10. "Miles Ahead" (issued overdubbed Solo) - 1:53
11. "Miles Ahead" (overdubbed solo) - 1:35
12. "I Don't Wanna Be Kissed (By Anyone But You)" (overdubbed solo 1) - 1:05
13. "I Don't Wanna Be Kissed (By Anyone But You)" (overdubbed solo 2) - 1:25
14. "I Don't Wanna Be Kissed (By Anyone But You)" (overdubbed solo 4) - 2:04
15. "I Don't Wanna Be Kissed (By Anyone But You)" (overdubbed solo 8) - 3:04
16. "I Don't Wanna Be Kissed (By Anyone But You)" (overdubbed solo 19 & 19c) - 2:56
17. "Miles Ahead" (mono master) - 3:29
18. "Gone" (rehearsal sequence) - 2:53
19. "Gone, Gone, Gone" (rehearsal sequence) - 2:57
20. Studio Discussion - 0:53
21. "Bess, You Is My Woman Now" (rehearsal take) - 4:57
22. "It Ain't Necessarily So" (take 1) - 3:22
23. "Oh Bess, Oh Where's My Bess" (take 3) - 3:53
24. "I Loves You, Porgy" (rehearsal sequence) - 2:17
25. "There's A Boat That's Leaving Soon For New York" (remake) - 2:23
26. "My Man's Gone Now" (remake take) - 6:12
27. "Song of Our Country" (take 9) - 2:58
28. "Concierto De Aranjuez (Adagio)" (rehearsal) - 7:20
29. "Concierto De Aranjuez (Adagio)" (alternate ending) - 1:21