Miles Ahead

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Cat No: 771979

Format Details: Yellow Coloured Vinyl /

Release Date: 01 March 2010

Label: Poll Winner Records

Packaging Type: Jewel Case

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 8436028691692

Genres: Jazz Jazz

Release Date: 11 August 2023

Label: Pan Am Records

Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 8436563184819

Genres: Jazz Jazz

Release Date: 19 June 2012

Label: Waxtime

Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 8436542016995

Genres: Jazz Jazz

Release Date: 11 August 2023

Label: Jazz Wax

Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 8435723700555

Genres: Jazz Jazz

Release Date: 02 February 2024

Label: Ermitage

Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 3770024956672

Genres: Jazz Jazz

Release Date: 21 June 2024

Label: Essential Jazz Classics

Packaging Type: Jewel Case

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 8435723701293

Genres: Jazz Jazz

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Limited edition 180g vinyl, one-off high-definition audiophile pressing with deluxe inner sleeve - the complete album + bonus track.
"Although Miles Ahead was Miles Davis' first recording with the Gil Evans Orchestra, it was certainly not Evans and Davis' first collaboration. Gil and Miles' 1948-49 recordings both in the studio and broadcasted live from the Royal Roost in New York are among the true jewels of jazz history. The same can be said about Miles Ahead, a completely refined product in which the arrangements, the repertoire and the mood of every improvisation were carefully selected." - ***** DownBeat

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limited edition 180g vinyl - one-off high-definition audiophile pressing with deluxe inner sleeve, the complete album + bonus track.
"Although Miles Ahead was Miles Davis' first recording with the Gil Evans Orchestra, it was certainly not Evans and Davis' first collaboration. Gil and Miles' 1948-49 recordings both in the studio and broadcasted live from the Royal Roost in New York are among the true jewels of jazz history. The same can be said about Miles Ahead, a completely refined product in which the arrangements, the repertoire and the mood of every improvisation were carefully selected." - ***** DownBeat

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"Miles Ahead" was the first album recorded together by Davis and Evans, who would later continue their partnership with albums such as "Porgy and Bess" and "Sketches of Spain". Gil Evans structured the ten songs that make up the album in a sort of suite, without interruptions between tracks. Davis, unusually on flugelhorn, is the only soloist in Miles Ahead, arranged with a characteristic horn section. The album was awarded the 1994 Grammy Hall of Fame Award and celebrate the new "cool" sound that was associated with it and which gave birth to a new jazz style.
This release is part of the New Ermitage collection available from January 2024: 18 jazz and soul titles reissued on yellow vinyl with new codes and renewed graphics.

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The complete album + 10 bonus tracks, 16-page booklet included with memorabilia and updated liner notes. Miles Ahead was Miles Davis' first recording with the Gil Evans Orchestra and which opened the way for many more collaborations between the two. Presented here in its entirety, it also includes the five 1962 orchestral tracks from Miles and Gil's last studio collaboration, Quiet Nights.
Also included are three tracks from a 1961 Carnegie Hall concert, which was their only live recording together and which included three compositions from Miles Ahead, as well as an arrangement of Spring Is Here, which never made it into any of the Miles Davis-Gil Evans studio albums. As an appropriate closing track, Miles' 1953 original quartet version of Miles Ahead is also included.
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