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MILES DAVIS - KIND OF BLUE: 50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION COLLECTOR'S EDITION (LIMITED EDITION 2CD + LP)

Miles Davis Kind Of Blue: 50th Anniversary Collector's Edition On 2 x CD + DVD + Blue Colored Vinyl LP

The Best Selling Jazz Album of All-Time Gets the Super Deluxe Treatment for its 50th Anniversary!

Includes the Original Remastered CD, a CD of Bonus Material, a DVD of the Making of Kind of Blue, an Incredible Full-Color Book, Photos from the Sessions, Miles' Notes and the LP of the Original Album Pressed on Blue Vinyl!

In 1958, after a string of critically acclaimed and successful albums, Miles Davis was searching for a new direction to take the music, and signs were pointing him off the chordal highway into a new jazz style: modal. His innovations would open up the world for improvisers. He recruited key players with the potential to solidify his new approach, forming his famed sextet with rising jazz giants John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley, Bill Evans & Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers and Jimmy Cobb. Miles hired the little-known Evans because he needed a pianist who was into the modal thing. Davis and Evans both had developed personal voices characterized by a melodic flow that suggested, rather than defined, musical structure. It was his relationship with Evans that created the spark that resulted in the album Kind of Blue.

In only two impromptu sessions in March and April of 1959, Miles Davis’s sextet created a tour de force — 5 original tunes built on simple scales. Davis is committed to getting something spontaneous out of his musicians. The entire album was composed as a series of modal sketches and was conceived only hours before the recording dates. The outcome? Pure inspiration, and the stuff of legend — an album made up of the first full take of each tune, captured at the historic Columbia 30th Street Studio. The album was originally released on Columbia Records in 1959, stunning the jazz world by practically creating a new language of music. Its influence goes far beyond jazz. Kind of Blue is universally considered to be one of the best albums of all time, of any genre. Fifty years later, Kind of Blue — the epitome of spontaneous invention—is still the best selling jazz album ever.

This Collector’s Edition marks the 50th Anniversary with an unprecedented presentation of music, images, insight and history to celebrate the album that is essential to any music collection, the ideal gift item for any jazz lover, especially fans of Miles Davis … a true collector’s set.

Do Not Miss this Limited-Edition Collector's Edition!

Miles Davis Kind Of Blue: 50th Anniversary Collector's Edition Track Listing

Disc 1 - CD:
1. So What (9:22)
2. Freddie Freeloader (9:46)
3. Blue In Green (5:36)
4. All Blues (11:32)
5. Flamenco Sketches (9:25)
6. Flamenco Sketches (alternate take) (9:31)
7. Freddie Freeloader – studio sequence 1 (0:51)
8. Freddie Freeloader – false start (1:26)
9. Freddie Freeloader – studio sequence 2 (1:34) (*)
10. So What – studio sequence 1 (1:55) (*)
11. So What – studio sequence 2 (0:12) (*)
12. Blue In Green – studio sequence (1:57) (*)
13. Flamenco Sketches – studio sequence 1 (0:43)
14. Flamenco Sketches – studio sequence 2 (1:10) (*)
15. All Blues – studio sequence (0:19) (*)
(*) previously unreleased

Disc 2 - CD:
1. On Green Dolphin Street (9:48)
2. Fran-Dance (5:48)
3. Stella By Starlight (4:43)
4. Love For Sale (11:46)
5. Fran-Dance (alternate take) (5:51)
6. So What (17:28) (**)
(**) previously released in unauthorized form
• Rare musical material including the first session by the Miles Davis sextet, May 26, 1958
• Over 30 minutes of studio material
• First authorized release of two extended live performances from April 9, 1960 Den Haag Concert and The Zurich Concert.

DVD:
• Documentary - Story Behind Kind of Blue
• April 2, 1959 TV program, Robert Herridge Theater: The Sound of Miles Davis

Blue Colored Vinyl LP:
1. So What
2. Freddie The Freeloader
3. Blue In Green
4. All Blues
5. Flamenco Sketches