Miles Davis – Miles Ahead: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:16:06 minutes | 840 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia – Legacy
The release of the movie MILES AHEAD, Don Cheadle’s wildly entertaining and moving exploration of Miles Davis, will be accompanied by this new soundtrack featuring musical highlights from Miles’ career and new recordings overseen by Grammy Award-winning jazz/hip-hop artist Robert Glasper.
This is a perfect primer on Davis’ career for the new fan and a brilliant audio keepsake of the film for those who’ve studied his works inside and out. The album features 11 tracks from across Miles’ catalogue from 1956 to 1981, select dialogue from the film featuring Cheadle in character, and five original compositions written, co-written, produced or performed exclusively for MILES AHEAD by Robert Glasper. These cues include “What’s Wrong with That?” a jam that closes the movie imagining Cheadle as Miles playing in the present day with guest performers Glasper, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Gary Clark, Jr. and Esperanza Spalding; plus “Gone 2015,” an end-credits song featuring guest verses from rapper Pharoahe Monch. Cheadle also pens new liner notes for the album discussing the selection and creation of the songs on the soundtrack.
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Miles Davis – Miles Ahead (Mono Version) (1957/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 37:18 minutes | 459 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia – Legacy
This album is perhaps most significant for the process it set in motion – the collaboration between Gil Evans and Miles Davis that would produce Porgy and Bess and Sketches of Spain, two of Davis’ best albums. That said, this album is a miracle in itself, the result of a big gamble on the part of Columbia Records, who put together Evans and Davis, who hadn’t worked together since recording the critically admired but commercially unsuccessful sides that would later be issued as The Birth of the Cool. Columbia also allowed Evans to assemble a 19-piece band for the recordings, at a time when big bands were far out of fashion and also at a time when the resulting recordings could not be released until two years in the future (because of Davis’ contractual obligations with Prestige). Davis was also expected to carry the album as its only soloist, and manage not to get lost among a cast of supporting musicians that included a huge horn section. To a large extent, he succeeds. Evans’ arrangements in particular are well-suited to the format, and he and Davis formed a deep and close partnership where ideas were swapped back and forth, nurtured, and developed long before they were expressed in the studio. Davis gets off to a great start, with the hyper-kinetic “Springsville,” which seems to almost perfectly embody Evans’ and Davis’ partnership with its light, flexible exchanges between soloist and orchestra. He is strongest on the ballads, though, where his subdued and wistful tone rises high above the hushed accompaniment, especially on “Miles Ahead” and “Blues for Pablo” (which foreshadows the bluesy, Latin-tinged sound of Sketches of Spain). The upbeat “I Don’t Want to Be Kissed (By Anyone but You)” is another strong song, but shows the weakness of the format as Davis intersperses a charming, bright, technically challenging solo with a blasting horn section that occasionally buries him. It is a fine end, however, to an album that gave a hint of the greatness that would come as Evans and Davis fine-tuned their partnership over the course of the next several years.
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Miles Davis – Merci Miles! Live at Vienne (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:20:14 minutes | 965 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rhino
By 1991, the world’s most celebrated trumpeter could look back on five decades of musical evolution – his own, and that of the world around him. Miles Davis had found ways of marrying jazz with classical ideas, then later R&B, rock and funk, producing hybrid offspring that shaped the course of popular music and had come to define his legend. Miles Davis’ performance at Jazz a Vienne on July 1, 1991 became one of his final live performances before he passed away on September 28, 1991, and this previously unreleased set includes two songs written by Prince, ‘Penetration’ and ‘Jailbait’. The package features liner notes from music historian, journalist, and producer Ashley Kahn, with art designed by Bruno Tilley.
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Miles Davis – Kind Of Blue (1959/2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 45:26 minutes | 1,54 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia – Legacy
Kind of Blue is an album most have heard many times before in a wide variety of formats. Now, you can hear it as if you were right there in the recording studio with the musicians! After many years, Sony finally decided to remaster Kind of Blue hi-res at 192kHz/24bit with the brilliant engineer Mark Wilder and the dedicated and knowledgeable producer Steve Berkowtiz (who has spent more time with and knows this album better than anyone out there). The quality of sound on this recording is unparalleled—listening to this release is like being in the studio with Miles.
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Miles Davis – Kind Of Blue (Mono Version) (1959/2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 45:32 minutes | 825 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia – Legacy
Kind of Blue is an album most have heard many times before in a wide variety of formats. Now, you can hear it as if you were right there in the recording studio with the musicians! After many years, Sony finally decided to remaster Kind of Blue hi-res at 192kHz/24bit with the brilliant engineer Mark Wilder and the dedicated and knowledgeable producer Steve Berkowtiz (who has spent more time with and knows this album better than anyone out there). The quality of sound on this recording is unparalleled—listening to this release is like being in the studio with Miles.
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Miles Davis – Jazz Track (Mono version) (1960/2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 46:44 minutes | 443 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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Miles Davis – Doo-Bop (1992/2011)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 43:44 minutes | 1,77 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rhino – Warner Records
Miles Davis’s last studio project is an adventurous collision of jazz and hip-hop.
If On the Corner suggested hip-hop beats as far back as two decades ago, then consider Doo-Bop as offspring. Miles’ teaming with producer Easy Mo Bee is a natural — more in league with England’s acid jazz scene than anything in the trumpeter’s recent canon. Those who’ve howled over the post-Bitches Brew work will find no solace here; instead, chalk this up as one of Miles’ most entertaining efforts.
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Miles Davis – Dig (1956/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 35:01 minutes | 715 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Prestige
Recorded in one day in October 1951, these tracks allowed Miles Davis and Sonny Rollins to stretch out together like they had never done in the studio before, delivering fluid solos with warmth and emotion. The rest of the musicians on this pivotal session are equally praiseworthy: a teenage Jackie McLean on alto sax on most songs, pianist Walter Bishop and bassist Tommy Porter, all held together by the explosive drive of drummer Art Blakey.
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Miles Davis – Collectors’ Items (1956/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 43:34 minutes | 898 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Prestige
Any 1950s Miles Davis recording could easily be called a “collector’s item,” but these selections have special claims to this description. The first four offer Charlie Parker in his only recordings in support of Miles, who had begun his disc career as Bird’s sideman. The last four feature a unique Davis/Mingus encounter. In between is Miles just before launching his first great Quintet, heading two groups loaded with top talent of the “post-bop” period.
Recorded on January 30, 1953 (1-4) WOR Studios, New York City and March 16, 1956 (5-7) at Van Gelder Studio in Hackensack, NJ.
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Miles Davis – Blue Moods (1955/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 26:49 minutes | 587 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Fantasy Records
Blue Moods is 1955 album by Miles Davis, released on Charles Mingus’ Debut Records label. It brings Davis together with Mingus on bass, trombonist Britt Woodman, vibraphonist Teddy Charles, and drummer Elvin Jones. The arrangement of “Alone Together” is by Mingus, while the other tracks were arranged by Charles.
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Miles Davis – Blue Haze (1954/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 36:38 minutes | 759 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Prestige
Blue Haze is a compilation album of tracks recorded in 1953 and 1954 by Miles Davis for Prestige Records.
The album is a reissue in 12″ format of the 10″ LP Miles Davis Quartet (PRLP 161), with “I’ll Remember April” added. Tracks 4,6, 7, and 8 come from Prestige PREP 1326, The Miles Davis Quartet, recorded 19 May 1953. It features a quartet with John Lewis on piano —replaced on “Smooch” by its co-composer Charles Mingus— Percy Heath, the bassist throughout the album, and Max Roach on drums. Tracks 2, 3, and 5, from March 15, 1954, with Horace Silver on piano and Art Blakey on drums, were first released on PREP 1360, titled Miles Davis Quartet. The first track on the album “I’ll Remember April” is from the 3 April 1954 session and was originally included on the 10″ LP Miles Davis Quintet (PRLP 185).
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Miles Davis – Bitches Brew (1970/2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:34:05 minutes | 2,02 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia – Legacy
Chart History/Awards
– Reached #1 on Billboard‘s Top Jazz Albums.
– One of Rolling Stone‘s “500 Greatest Albums of All Time.”
– One of Q‘s “Best Jazz Albums of All Time.”
– Won the GRAMMY® for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Performance.
Bitches Brew is a pivotal document in music history. Widely considered one of the greatest jazz albums ever made, it is Miles Davis’ first Gold-certified work. The music legend continues his experimentation with electric instruments, bridging together jazz and rock. Davis’ innovative masterpiece mixed the best elements of free jazz, electric rock textures and blues phrasings. It is one of Q Magazine’s “Best Jazz Albums of All Time” and one ofRolling Stone’s “500 Greatest Albums of All Time.” It reached #1 on Billboard’s Top Jazz Albums and won the GRAMMY® for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Performance.
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Miles Davis – Birth Of The Cool (1957/2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 32:42 minutes | 1,16 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Capitol Records
Birth Of The Cool is a must-have compilation album featuring three landmark Davis sessions from 1949 to 1950. Showcasing compelling and unique instrumentation, Davis is joined by acclaimed musicians including Lee Konitz, Gerry Mulligan, Al Haig, Al McKibbon, Max Roach, Kenny Clarke, Kenny Hagood, Bill Barber, J.J. Johnson and more. The album is included on Guardian’s “50 Great Moments in Jazz.” This is a definitive release in the history of cool jazz.
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Miles Davis – Bags’ Groove (1957/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 46:04 minutes | 1,18 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Prestige
Bag’s Groove was recorded in 1954 for Prestige Records but was not released until 1957. Most of the album was recorded on June 29, 1954, but the title track was recorded at one session on December 24 of the same year. Several of the tracks on the album were written by Sonny Rollins and would go on to become jazz standards in their own right.
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Miles Davis – Autumn In Paris? (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 59:10 minutes | 592 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RevOla
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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