The best of the Capitol-Blue Note years (MILES DAVIS)

1. Move Miles Davis 2:32
2. Godchild Miles Davis 3:09
3. Budo Miles Davis 2:34
4. Dear Old Stockholm Miles Davis 4:13
5. Donna Miles Davis 3:14
6. Yesterdays Miles Davis 3:45
7. Tempus Fugit Miles Davis 3:52
8. Enigma Miles Davis 3:24
9. C.T.A. Miles Davis 3:35
10. Well You Needn't Miles Davis 5:24
11. It Never Entered My Mind (Higher & Higher) Miles Davis 4:04
12. Weirdo Miles Davis 4:44
13. Somethin' Else Cannonball Adderley 8:15
14. Autumn Leaves (Instrumental) Cannonball Adderley 10:58


Personnel :

Miles Davis (trumpet)
Lee Konitz, Cannonball Adderley, Jackie McLean (alto saxophone)
Jimmy Heath (tenor saxophone)
Gerry Mulligan (baritone saxophone)
J.J. Johnson, Kai Winding (trombone)
Junior Collins (French horn)
John Barber (tuba)
Horace Silver, Al Haig, Hank Jones, Gil Coggins (piano)
Joe Shulman, Oscar Pettiford, Percy Heath, Sam Jones (bass)
Art Blakey, Max Roach, Kenny Clarke (drums)


Recorded in New York, New York on January 21, 1949; WOR Studios, New York, New York on May 9, 1952 and April 20, 1953; the Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey on March 6, 1954 and March 9, 1958.

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Davis spent the most groundbreaking years of his career on Columbia; volume eight of that label's "This Is Jazz" series offers a survey, however inherently limited, of his work from 1955 to 1965, a period that covers his two classic quintets, the recording of KIND OF BLUE and his first work with Gil Evans. What THE BEST OF MILES DAVIS includes is material from BIRTH OF THE COOL, represented by three cuts from that LP, and from sessions done between 1952 and 1954 that featured musicians like J.J. Johnson, Jackie McLean, Jimmy Heath, Percy Heath and Art Blakey. It's an interesting period, in that neither Blue Note nor Davis had quite developed into the icons they were about to become. Ironically, with the final two cuts on this collection (from 1959's SOMETHING ELSE), both the label and Miles can be heard doing precisely what they became best known for: the album, released under Cannonball Adderly's name, imparts the smoky, noir atmosphere that characterized Blue Note's reputation as the home of hard bop, while Davis, radically reinterpreting standards like "Autumn Leaves," sounds at once pointillistic, introspective and decidedly badass.

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