The Complete Bitches Brew Sessions
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| The Complete Bitches Brew Sessions | ||
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| Box set by Miles Davis | ||
| Released | 24 November 1998 | |
| Recorded | August 19, 1969 - February 6, 1970 | |
| Genre | Jazz fusion | |
| Length | 264:40 | |
| Label | Columbia Legacy/Sony Music | |
| Producer(s) | Teo Macero (orig. recordings), Bob Belden, Michael Cuscuna | |
| Professional reviews | ||
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| Miles Davis chronology | ||
| (Box 5) The Complete In a Silent Way Sessions (2001) |
(Box 6) The Complete Bitches Brew Sessions (1998) |
(Box 7) The Complete Jack Johnson Sessions (2003) |
The Complete Bitches Brew Sessions is a four-disc box set of music recordings by trumpeter Miles Davis. The set collects tracks that Davis recorded between August 19, 1969 and February 6, 1970, including the 1970 double album Bitches Brew in its entirety. However, the title of the box set is somewhat of a misnomer: outside of the Bitches Brew tracks themselves, none of the other tracks appeared on Bitches Brew upon its original release, nor were they recorded during the same August 1969 sessions that resulted in Bitches Brew. Furthermore, additional material recorded for, but not used in Bitches Brew, is not included in this set.
The box set includes some tracks that had never been previously released, one of which, the Wayne Shorter composition "Feio," has since appeared as a bonus track on compact disc reissues of Bitches Brew. Other tracks in the box set had previously appeared on the albums Live-Evil, Big Fun, and Circle in the Round.
The Complete Bitches Brew Sessions is number "6" in a series of Miles Davis box sets by Columbia Legacy/Sony Music (the numbering scheme refers to the chronological order of the original recordings, not the release order of the box sets themselves). The set was reissued on 11 May 2004 with new packaging.
Contents |
[edit] Track listing
Disc one
- "Pharaoh's Dance" (Joe Zawinul) – 20:06
- "Bitches Brew" (Miles Davis) – 26:58
- "Spanish Key" (Davis) – 17:34
- "John McLaughlin" (Davis) – 4:22
Disc two
- "Miles Runs the Voodoo Down" (Davis) – 14:01
- "Sanctuary" (Wayne Shorter) – 10:56
- "Great Expectations" (Davis - Zawinul) – 13:45
- "Orange Lady" (Zawinul) – 13:50
- "Yaphet" (Davis) – 9:39
- "Corrado" (Davis) – 13:11
Disc three
- "Trevere" (Davis) – 5:55
- "The Big Green Serpent" (Davis) – 3:35
- "The Little Blue Frog" (alternate take) (Davis) – 12:13
- "The Little Blue Frog" (Davis) – 9:09
- "Lonely Fire" (Davis) – 21:09
- "Guinnevere" (David Crosby) – 21:07
Disc four
- "Feio" (Shorter) – 11:49
- "Double Image" (Zawinul) – 8:25
- "Recollections" (Zawinul) – 18:54
- "Take It or Leave It" (Zawinul) – 2:13
- "Double Image" (Zawinul) – 5:52
[edit] Personnel
Collective listing for all recording sessions.
- Don Alias - Percussion, Conga, Drums
- Khalil Balakrishna - Sitar
- Harvey Brooks - Bass, Electric bass
- Ron Carter - Bass
- Billy Cobham - Drums, Triangle
- Chick Corea - Electric piano
- Miles Davis - Trumpet, Vocals
- Jack DeJohnette - Drums
- Steve Grossman - Soprano saxophone
- Herbie Hancock - Electric piano
- Dave Holland - Bass, Electric bass
- Bennie Maupin - Bass clarinet
- John McLaughlin - Guitar
- Airto Moreira - Berimbau, Cuíca, Percussion
- Bihari Sharma - Tabla, Tamboura
- Wayne Shorter - Soprano saxophone
- Juma Santos (Jim Riley) - Conga, Shaker
- Lenny White - Drums
- Larry Young - Organ, Celeste, Electric piano
- Joe Zawinul - Electric piano
[edit] References
- Belden, Bob and Michael Cuscuna. "Discography/Album Index." The Complete Bitches Brew Sessions by Miles Davis. Sony Music Entertainment C4K 65570, 1998.
