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The Complete Columbia Recordings of Miles Davis with John Coltrane
Box set by Miles Davis and John Coltrane
Released	April 11, 2000
Recorded	October 26, 1955 to March 21, 1961
Genre	Jazz
Length	386:01
Label	Columbia/Legacy
Producer	George Avakian, Teo Macero, and Irving Townsend
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The Complete Columbia Recordings of Miles Davis with John Coltrane is a box set featuring jazz musicians Miles Davis and John Coltrane. It is the first box set in a series of eight from Columbia/Legacy compiling Davis's work for Columbia Records, and includes never-before-released alternate takes, omissions of other musicians, musician comments, false starts and a first version of compositions, some of which have made it to the 50th Anniversary 2-disc CD version of Kind of Blue. Originally issued on April 11, 2000, in a limited-edition metal slipcase, it was reissued in 2004 in an oversized book format. In conjunction with Sony, Mosaic Records released the 9-LP set.

Albums

Davis' and Coltrane's work together for Columbia produced three studio albums, two tracks from a fourth, and two live albums, all of which are contained in this box set:

• 'Round About Midnight (released March 4, 1957)
• Milestones (released September 2, 1958)
• Kind of Blue (released August 17, 1959)
• Someday My Prince Will Come (released December 11, 1961) (2 tracks only)
• Miles & Monk at Newport (released May 11, 1964) (A-side only), reissued as Miles Davis at Newport 1958 in 2001
• Jazz at the Plaza (released September 28, 1973)

Track listing

Personnel

Recorded between October 26, 1955, and March 21, 1961, in New York City (except disk 5, tracks 3–9, recorded in Newport, RI).

• Miles Davis – trumpet
• John Coltrane – tenor saxophone
• Hank Mobley – tenor saxophone (Disc 5: track 1)
• Cannonball Adderley – alto saxophone (Disc 2: tracks 10–13; Disc 3; Disc 4: tracks 1, 6–9; Disc 5: tracks 3–9; Disc 6)
• Red Garland – piano (Disc 1; Disc 2; Disc 3: tracks 1–6)
• Bill Evans – piano (Disc 3: tracks 7–10; Disk 4: track 1, 4–9; Disc 5: tracks 3–9; Disc 6)
• Wynton Kelly – piano (Disc 4: tracks 2–3; Disc 5: tracks 1–2)
• Paul Chambers – bass
• Philly Joe Jones – drums (Disc 1; Disc 2; Disc 3: tracks 1–6)
• Jimmy Cobb – drums (Disc 3: tracks 7–10; Disk 4; Disc 5; Disc 6)

References

1. Erlewine, Stephen Thomas (2011). "The Complete Columbia Recordings 1955–1961 – John Coltrane | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 8 August 2011.
2. Larkin, Colin (2007). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.
3. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 345. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
4. "Discography and description". Mosaic Records. Retrieved 2021-07-25.

• Compilation albums published posthumously
• John Coltrane compilation albums
• Miles Davis compilation albums
• 2000 compilation albums
• Columbia Records compilation albums
• Albums recorded at CBS 30th Street Studio
• Albums produced by Teo Macero
• Albums produced by Michael Cuscuna
• Albums produced by George Avakian
• Albums produced by Irving Townsend