Description
Tracklist:
1-A1: Two Bass Hit (Alternate Take – Previously Unissued)
1-A2: Two Bass Hit (Take 2 Through Most Of Tenor Solo, Then Take 5)
1-A3: Ah-Leu-Cha (Alternate Take – Previously Unissued)
1-A4: Ah-Leu-Cha (Take 5 To Middle Of Trumpet Solo, Then Take 4)
1-A5: Ah-Leu-Cha (Alternate Take – Previously Unissued)
1-B1: Little Melonae (Takes 2 To Middle Of Trumpet Solo, Then Take 3 To End)
1-B2: Budo (Alternate Take)
1-B3: Budo (Take 8 Includes Some Ensemble Edits From Take 1 Or 2)
1-B4: Dear Old Stockholm
2-A1: Bye Bye Blackbird (Alternate Take – Previously Unissued)
2-A2: Bye Bye Blackbird
2-A3: Tadd’s Delight
2-A4: Tadd’s Delight (Alternate Take – Previously Unissued)
2-B1: Dear Old Stockholm (Alternate Take – Previously Unissued)
2-B2: All Of You (Alternate Take – Previously Unissued)
2-B3: All Of You
3-A1: Sweet Sue, Just You (First Version – Previously Unissued)
3-A2: Sweet Sue, Just You (First Start With Discussion Between Leonard Bernstein And Miles Davis – Previously Unissued)
3-A3: Sweet Sue, Just You (Alternate Take – Previously Unissued)
3-A4: Sweet Sue, Just You
3-A5: Miles Davis Comments
3-A6: ‘Round Midnight
3-A7: Two Bass Hit (Alternate Take – Previously Unissued)
3-B1: Two Bass Hit
3-B2: Billy Boy (Trio Only)
3-B3: Straight, No Chaser (Alternate Take – Previously Unissued)
4-A1: Straight, No Chaser
4-A2: Milestones (Alternate Take – Previously Unissued)
4-A3: Milestones
4-B1: Sid’s Ahead
4-B2: Little Melonae (Previously Unissued)
5-A1: Dr. Jackle
5-A2: On Green Dolphin Street
5-A3: Fran-Dance (Alternate Take – Previously Unissued)
5-B1: Fran Dance
5-B2: Stella By Starlight (Takes 3 Up To Tenor Solo Then Take 7)
5-B3: Love For Sale
6-A1: Freddie Freeloader (False Start – Previously Unissued)
6-A2: Freddie Freeloader
6-A3: So What
6-B1: Blue In Green
6-B2: Flamenco Sketches (Alternate Take)
6-B3: Miles Davis Comments (Previously Unissued)
7-A1: Flamenco Sketches
7-A2: All Blues
7-B1: Someday My Prince Will Come
7-B2: Teo
8-A1: Introduction By Willis Conover
8-A2: Ah-Leu-Cha
8-A3: Straight, No Chaser
8-A4: Fran-Dance
8-B1: Two Bass Hit
8-B2: Bye Bye Blackbird
8-B3: The Theme
9-A1: If I Were A Bell
9-A2: Oleo
9-B1: My Funny Valentine
9-B2: Straight, No Chaser
58-track remastered 9-LP box set of the complete Columbia recordings made between 1955 & 1961
Includes 60-page booklet with essays from Jimmy Cobb, George Avaklan, Michael Cuscuna, Bob Belden and Bob Blumenthal’s grammy wining notes
Recorded at Columbia Studio D, New York, New York on October 26, 1955; Columbia 30th Street Studio, New York, New York between June 5, 1956 and March 21, 1961; live at the Newport Jazz Festival, Newport Rhode Island on July 3, 1958; live at the Persian Room, Plaza Hotel, New York, New York on September 9, 1958.
