I realize you can't include everything, but you skip from 1959 to 1965, including such iconic albums as the last 4 Prestige albums ( Workin' etc.), Sketches of Spain, Someday My Prince will Come, My Funny Valentine, and Seven Steps to Heaven (my favorite). In my opinion, Miles' later work beyond Bitches Brew was a rather sad attempt by a middle aged man to be a rock star. I find no beauty in it.
My favorite late Miles--especially in the 1980s--is from live albums such as WE WANT MILES and MILES LIVE AROUND THE WORLD. Both albums are overlooked and revelatory. On the latter, most of all check out Kenny Garrett's tour de force performance on "Human Nature"--far superior to Miles' 1984 studio version of that tune on YOU'RE UNDER ARREST.
I am rather the Miles "completist", having the following in what still remains of my music collection:
First Miles (Savoy)
The Complete Birth Of The Cool [Capitol]
Miles Davis, Volumes 1 and 2 (CD versions) [Blue Note]
At Last: Miles Davis And The Lighthouse All-Stars [Contemporary]
The Complete Prestige Recordings (8 CD Box Set) [Fantasy before being purchased by Concord Music Group]
The Complete Recordings of Miles Davis and John Coltrane (6 CD Box Set) [this and all subsequent sets: Columbia/Legacy/Sony]
Miles Davis/Gil Evans: The Complete Columbia Recordings (6 CD Box Set)
Someday My Prince Will Come
In Person: The Complete Miles Davis At The Blackhawk, Friday and Saturday Night (2 - 2 CD Sets)
Live At Carnegie Hall (2 CD Box Set)
Seven Steps: The Complete 1963-64 Recordings (7 CD Box Set)
The Complete 1965-68 Quintet Recordings (6 CD Box Set)
The Complete Live At The Plugged Nickel (8 CD Box Set)
The Complete In A Silent Way Recordings (3 CD Box Set)
The Complete Bitches Brew Recordings (4 CD Box Set)
The Complete Jack Johnson Sessions (5 CD Box Set)
The Complete Cellar Door Sessions (6 CD Box Set)
(And that's still not all of the collections out there, actually -- but what I have would take almost 3 days straight [close to 72 hours] to listen to all of it.)
Here's my list of favorites, some of which will duplicate your excellent list:
Milestones #1 (working title: Changing The Bird) [1947]
Half-Nelson [1947]
Sil Vous Plait [1947]
Moon Dreams [1949]
Boplicity [1949]
Weirdo (aka Sid's Ahead) [1954]
Blue Haze [1953]
Solar [1954]
Swing Spring [1954]
The Man I Love (Take 2) [1954]
I Didn't [1955]
A Night In Tunisia [1955]
The Surrey With The Fringe On Top [1956]
Salt Peanuts [1956]
Blues By Five [1956]
Round Midnight [1956]
Ah-Leu-Cha [1956]
Dear Old Stockholm [1956]
Bye Bye Blackbird [1956]
Springville [1957]
Blues For Pablo [1957]
I Don't Want To Be Kissed (By Anyone But You) [1957]
On Green Dolphin Street [1958]
Milestones #2 (original title: Miles) [1958]
Straight, No Chaser [1958]
Gone [1958]
Summertime [1958]
I Loves You, Porgy [1958]
There's A Boat That's Leaving For New York [1958]
So What [1959]
Blue In Green [1959]
All Blues [1959]
Concerto De Aranjuez [1960]
Solea [1960]
Someday My Prince Will Come [1961]
Drad-Dog (partly based on Blue In Green) [1961]
I Thought About You [1961]
Walkin' (originally issued live version from "In Person, Friday Night") [1961]
If I Were A Bell (originally issued live version from "In Person, Saturday Night") [1961]
Basin Street Blues [1963]
Seven Steps To Heaven [1963]
Joshua [1963]
My Funny Valentine (live) [1964]
Stella By Starlight (live) [1964]
Four (live) [1964]
There Is No Greater Love (live) [1964]
E. S. P. [1965]
Eighty-One [1965]
Circle (derived from Drad-Dog) [1966]
Footprints [1966]
Nefertiti [1967]
Circle In The Round (Teo Macero edit/mix) [1967]
Water On The Pond [1967]
Paraphernalia [1968]
Country Son [1968]
Mademoiselle Mabry [1968]
Frelon Brun [1968]
Shhh/Peaceful [1969]
In A Silent Way/It's About That Time [1969]
The Ghetto Walk [1969]
Early Minor [1969]
Sanctuary [1970]
Konda [1970]
A total of 63 tracks! (And there may have been several that I missed simply because, to borrow from a standard Miles played early in his career: they never entered my mind...)
Just heard all your favorite tracks. Excellent. 🙂
I realize you can't include everything, but you skip from 1959 to 1965, including such iconic albums as the last 4 Prestige albums ( Workin' etc.), Sketches of Spain, Someday My Prince will Come, My Funny Valentine, and Seven Steps to Heaven (my favorite). In my opinion, Miles' later work beyond Bitches Brew was a rather sad attempt by a middle aged man to be a rock star. I find no beauty in it.
My favorite late Miles--especially in the 1980s--is from live albums such as WE WANT MILES and MILES LIVE AROUND THE WORLD. Both albums are overlooked and revelatory. On the latter, most of all check out Kenny Garrett's tour de force performance on "Human Nature"--far superior to Miles' 1984 studio version of that tune on YOU'RE UNDER ARREST.
I am rather the Miles "completist", having the following in what still remains of my music collection:
First Miles (Savoy)
The Complete Birth Of The Cool [Capitol]
Miles Davis, Volumes 1 and 2 (CD versions) [Blue Note]
At Last: Miles Davis And The Lighthouse All-Stars [Contemporary]
The Complete Prestige Recordings (8 CD Box Set) [Fantasy before being purchased by Concord Music Group]
The Complete Recordings of Miles Davis and John Coltrane (6 CD Box Set) [this and all subsequent sets: Columbia/Legacy/Sony]
Miles Davis/Gil Evans: The Complete Columbia Recordings (6 CD Box Set)
Someday My Prince Will Come
In Person: The Complete Miles Davis At The Blackhawk, Friday and Saturday Night (2 - 2 CD Sets)
Live At Carnegie Hall (2 CD Box Set)
Seven Steps: The Complete 1963-64 Recordings (7 CD Box Set)
The Complete 1965-68 Quintet Recordings (6 CD Box Set)
The Complete Live At The Plugged Nickel (8 CD Box Set)
The Complete In A Silent Way Recordings (3 CD Box Set)
The Complete Bitches Brew Recordings (4 CD Box Set)
The Complete Jack Johnson Sessions (5 CD Box Set)
The Complete Cellar Door Sessions (6 CD Box Set)
(And that's still not all of the collections out there, actually -- but what I have would take almost 3 days straight [close to 72 hours] to listen to all of it.)
Here's my list of favorites, some of which will duplicate your excellent list:
Milestones #1 (working title: Changing The Bird) [1947]
Half-Nelson [1947]
Sil Vous Plait [1947]
Moon Dreams [1949]
Boplicity [1949]
Weirdo (aka Sid's Ahead) [1954]
Blue Haze [1953]
Solar [1954]
Swing Spring [1954]
The Man I Love (Take 2) [1954]
I Didn't [1955]
A Night In Tunisia [1955]
The Surrey With The Fringe On Top [1956]
Salt Peanuts [1956]
Blues By Five [1956]
Round Midnight [1956]
Ah-Leu-Cha [1956]
Dear Old Stockholm [1956]
Bye Bye Blackbird [1956]
Springville [1957]
Blues For Pablo [1957]
I Don't Want To Be Kissed (By Anyone But You) [1957]
On Green Dolphin Street [1958]
Milestones #2 (original title: Miles) [1958]
Straight, No Chaser [1958]
Gone [1958]
Summertime [1958]
I Loves You, Porgy [1958]
There's A Boat That's Leaving For New York [1958]
So What [1959]
Blue In Green [1959]
All Blues [1959]
Concerto De Aranjuez [1960]
Solea [1960]
Someday My Prince Will Come [1961]
Drad-Dog (partly based on Blue In Green) [1961]
I Thought About You [1961]
Walkin' (originally issued live version from "In Person, Friday Night") [1961]
If I Were A Bell (originally issued live version from "In Person, Saturday Night") [1961]
Basin Street Blues [1963]
Seven Steps To Heaven [1963]
Joshua [1963]
My Funny Valentine (live) [1964]
Stella By Starlight (live) [1964]
Four (live) [1964]
There Is No Greater Love (live) [1964]
E. S. P. [1965]
Eighty-One [1965]
Circle (derived from Drad-Dog) [1966]
Footprints [1966]
Nefertiti [1967]
Circle In The Round (Teo Macero edit/mix) [1967]
Water On The Pond [1967]
Paraphernalia [1968]
Country Son [1968]
Mademoiselle Mabry [1968]
Frelon Brun [1968]
Shhh/Peaceful [1969]
In A Silent Way/It's About That Time [1969]
The Ghetto Walk [1969]
Early Minor [1969]
Sanctuary [1970]
Konda [1970]
A total of 63 tracks! (And there may have been several that I missed simply because, to borrow from a standard Miles played early in his career: they never entered my mind...)