Miles Davis Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, John McLaughlin, Keith Jarrett, Billy Cobham Miles Davis/Unreleased Sessions

This first installment in a definitive series features unreleased sessions from Miles Davis’ most creative period, when he continued to take on new challenges rather than shatter the jazz genre. These sessions, newly remastered from the original master tapes and featuring newly discovered tapes, are available for the first time in chronological order, in the highest quality sound ever! Until now, the unreleased Miles Davis sessions have required multiple titles to compile, due to the disparate eras, inconsistent sound quality, and even duplicates. Furthermore, some tracks lack the perfect balance and sound quality due to being released over 20 years ago. Greatly Improved, the prestigious So What! label, trusted by many jazz enthusiasts, has finally decided to release a definitive edition that meets the needs of the times. This first installment is a painstakingly produced release! Excluding “Kind of Blue” and “Bitches Brew,” which were released separately, the album begins with the June 7, 1967, sessions for “Madness,” three versions of “Nefertiti” by the so-called Golden Quintet, consisting of Miles, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, and Tony Williams; “So What,” performed by Miles, John McLaughlin, Dave Holland, Lenny White, and Steve Grossman, on March 20, 1970; “Go Ahead,” performed by Miles, Herbie, McLaughlin, Grossman, Michael Henderson, and Billy Cobham, on April 7, 1970; and “Nem Um Tarves,” performed by Miles, Herbie, Keith Jarrett, McLaughlin, Henderson, Airto Moreira, and Hermeto Pascoal, on May 27, 1970. This nearly two-hour disc features the highest quality audio recordings yet, including a June 12, 1972 recording of “Jabari” by Miles Davis, Carlos Garnett, Benny Maupin, Lonnie Liston Smith, Harold Williams, Henderson, Al Foster, Billy Hart, James Mtume, and Badal Roy, and two previously unreleased versions of “Prelude” by Miles Davis, Garnett, Cedric Lawson, Reggie Lucas, Khalil Parakrishna, Henderson, Foster, Mtume, and Roy, recorded on November 29, 1972. All sessions were recorded at Columbia Studios in New York. Miles, who was already feeling the limits of acoustic jazz and the four-peat, and the golden quintet consisting of Shorter, Herbie, Ron and Tony, who had made great strides in the blink of an eye, have created a Shorter piece that is reminiscent of the minimalist techniques created by contemporary music artists such as Steve Reich, Philip Crass and John Cage, and although it is jazz, there is no improvisation whatsoever! This collection includes a groundbreaking session featuring a slightly shifted, repeated, and almost magical theme; a brilliantly reworked version of the classic “So What,” in which Grossman and McLaughlin ignore Miles’s “no solos” instruction and deliver a fiery solo; “Go Ahead,” featuring Grossman and McLaughlin’s already accomplished solos leading into the heroic “Right Of”; a version of the dreamy, experimental “Nem Um Tarvez,” featuring Keith and Hermeto, nearly twice as long as the master version; “Ife” from newly discovered master sources; “Jabari” from the same session; two versions of “Prelude,” also from new sources, plus an unreleased, untitled track. This first volume, compiled in chronological order for the first time, utilizes newly discovered sources to produce the finest sound quality from Miles Davis’s most creative and experimental period!