Unedited recordings capture a fiery young band playing music that resonates to this day
The eighth volume of Sony Legacy’s Bootleg series, a six-CD box set, traces the formation of Miles Davis’s second great quintet between 1963 and 1964. Its repertoire sets broody ballads alongside the trumpeter’s greatest hits — the title track of Milestones is included, as are “All Blues” and “So What” from Kind of Blue. Brisk tempi, a fiery young band and a sense of risk create music that resonates to this day. The unedited performances, most of them unreleased until now, rarely falter.
The rhythm section is the same throughout, but between the two festivals, Wayne Shorter replaced George Coleman as saxophonist, completing the second great quintet. The set opens with a pulse-changing “So What”; the evergreen “Stella By Starlight” tugs the heart, and three speed-of-light versions of “Walkin’” clock in at widely different times.
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