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Your tastes are evolving, you want your musical diet to include more than steady infusions of fast food Pop, episode 9 of Ken Burns' version of the story of jazz piqued your curiosity about Miles Davis, and your overpriced apartment has space for no more than 50 CDs. You'll find a good overview on the well-blended 23-course tasting menu of The Essential Miles Davis, which samples dishes offered by master trumpeter-conceptualist at points along the full timeline of his career. There's the Michelin 3-star apprenticeship with Charlie Parker ("Now's the Time" [1945]; "Compulsion," [1953]); the signature Nouvelle Americain stamp of Gil Evans ("Jeru" [1949], "New Rhumba" [1957], "Summertime" [1958], "Pan Piper" [1957]); haute cuisine soul food of the Southern ("Walkin'" [1954]) and pan-African ("Petits Machins" (1968], "Miles Runs The Voodoo Down" [1969], "Little Church" [1970], "Black Satin" [1972], "Jean-Pierre" [1981]) varieties; classic New York Sophisticate surf-and-turf ("Round Midnight" [1956], "Bye-Bye Blackbird" [1956], "Someday My Prince Will Come" [1961], "My Funny Valentine" [1964], "Time After Time" [1984]; the indescribably delicious futurist banquets of "So What" [1959], "E.S.P." [1965], "Nefertiti" [1967]. The program concludes with "Portia" [1986], on which Davis frames his enduringly human tone, replete with minute gradations of timbre and inflection, with the imaginative cyber-palette of Marcus Miller.
Condition:NEW. Brand New Factory Sealed
TRACK LISTINGS
1 Now's the Time 3:17
2 Jeru 3:13
3 Compulsion 5:44
4 Tempus Fugit 3:51
5 Walkin' 13:27
6 'Round Midnight 5:57
7 Bye Bye Blackbird 7:55
8 New Rhumba 4:37
9 Generique 2:48
10 Summertime 3:20
11 So What 9:23
12 The Pan Piper 3:53
13 Someday My Prince Will Come 9:03
Disc 2
1 My Funny Valentine 15:07
2 E.S.P. 5:30
3 Nefertiti 7:53
4 Petits Machins (Little Stuff) 8:07
5 Miles Runs the Voodoo Down 14:03
6 Little Church 3:16
7 Black Satin 5:16
8 Jean Pierre 4:03
9 Time After Time 3:40
10 Portia 6:18
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