The Complete Columbia Recordings of Miles Davis with John Coltrane

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.

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
Producer	George Avakian, Teo Macero, and Irving Townsend
The Miles Davis Series chronology
The Complete Columbia Recordings of Miles Davis with John Coltrane (2000) (Box 2) Miles Davis & Gil Evans: The Complete Columbia Studio Recordings (1996)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[2]

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

Disc 1

No.	Title	Original release	Length
1.	"Two Bass Hit (Alternate Take)"	Previously unreleased	3:21
2.	"Two Bass Hit (Take 2)"	Circle in the Round	3:44
3.	"Ah-Leu-Cha (Alternate Take)"	Previously unreleased	5:51
4.	"Ah-Leu-Cha"	'Round About Midnight	5:53
5.	"Ah-Leu-Cha (Take 5)"	Previously unreleased	5:25
6.	"Little Melonae"	Basic Miles	7:22
7.	"Budo (Alternate Take)"	The Columbia Years 1955–1985	5:02
8.	"Budo"	Circle in the Round	4:17
9.	"Dear Old Stockholm"	Round About Midnight	7:51
10.	"Bye Bye Blackbird (Alternate Take)"	Previously unreleased	7:50
11.	"Bye Bye Blackbird"	Round About Midnight	7:56
12.	"Tadd's Delight"	'Round About Midnight	4:28
13.	"Tadd's Delight (Alternate Take)"	Previously unreleased	4:18

Disc 2

No.	Title	...	Length
1.	"Dear Old Stockholm (Alternate Take)"	Previously unreleased	6:42
2.	"All of You (Alternate Take)"	Previously unreleased	7:31
3.	"All of You"	Round About Midnight	7:03
4.	"Sweet Sue, Just You (First Version)"	Previously unreleased	4:23
5.	"Sweet Sue, Just You (False Start with Discussion Between Leonard Bernstein & Miles Davis)"	Previously unreleased	1:58
6.	"Sweet Sue, Just You (Alternate Take)"	Previously unreleased	3:32
7.	"Sweet Sue, Just You"	What Is Jazz	3:41
8.	"Miles Davis Comments"	Previously unreleased	0:30
9.	"'Round Midnight"	Round About Midnight	5:57
10.	"Two Bass Hit (Alternate Take)"	Previously unreleased	4:32
11.	"Two Bass Hit"	Milestones	5:13
12.	"Billy Boy"	Milestones	7:12
13.	"Straight No Chaser (Alternate Take)"	Previously unreleased	10:27

Disc 3

No.	Title	...	Length
1.	"Straight No Chaser"	Milestones	10:37
2.	"Milestones (Alternate Take)"	Previously unreleased	6:01
3.	"Milestones"	Milestones	5:44
4.	"Sid's Ahead"	Milestones	13:02
5.	"Little Melonae (omits Adderley)"	Previously unreleased	7:55
6.	"Dr. Jekyll"	Milestones	5:49
7.	"On Green Dolphin Street"	Jazz Track	9:50
8.	"Fran-Dance (Alternate Take)"	Previously unreleased	5:52
9.	"Fran-Dance"	Jazz Track	5:49
10.	"Stella by Starlight"	Jazz Track	4:43

Disc 4

No.	Title	...	Length
1.	"Love for Sale"	1958 Miles	11:49
2.	"Freddie Freeloader (false start)"	Previously unreleased	1:27
3.	"Freddie Freeloader"	Kind of Blue	9:48
4.	"So What"	Kind of Blue	9:23
5.	"Blue in Green"	Kind of Blue	5:38
6.	"Flamenco Sketches (Alternate Take)"	Previously unreleased	9:33
7.	"Miles Davis Comments"	Previously unreleased	0:44
8.	"Flamenco Sketches"	Kind of Blue	9:27
9.	"All Blues"	Kind of Blue	11:32

Disc 5

No.	Title	...	Length
1.	"Someday My Prince Will Come"	Someday My Prince Will Come	9:05
2.	"Teo"	Someday My Prince Will Come	9:36
3.	"Introduction by Willis Conover"	Miles Davis at Newport 1958	2:15
4.	"Ah-Leu-Cha"	Miles Davis at Newport 1958	5:52
5.	"Straight No Chaser"	Miles Davis at Newport 1958	8:47
6.	"Fran-Dance"	Miles Davis at Newport 1958	7:13
7.	"Two Bass Hit"	Miles Davis at Newport 1958	4:10
8.	"Bye Bye Blackbird"	Miles Davis at Newport 1958	9:10
9.	"The Theme"	Miles Davis at Newport 1958	2:48

Disc 6

No.	Title	...	Length
1.	"If I Were a Bell"	Jazz at the Plaza	8:31
2.	"Oleo"	Jazz at the Plaza	10:38
3.	"My Funny Valentine"	Jazz at the Plaza	10:18
4.	"Straight No Chaser"	Jazz at the Plaza	10:56

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 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 6–10; 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.