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Miles Davis
Early Miles 1 (Reis)
Genres: Jazz, Pop

Track Listings (7) - Disc #1
1. Just You, Just Me - Miles Davis, Greer, Jesse
2. Don't Blame Me - Miles Davis, Fields, D.
3. Sweet Georgia Bown/Streets of Paris, Los Angeles - Miles Davis, Bernie, B.
4. The Squirrel - Miles Davis, Dameron, T.
5. Fine and Dandy - Miles Davis,
6. Anthropology - Miles Davis, Gillespie, D.
7. Body and Soul - Miles Davis, Green, J.
Track Listings (12) - Disc #2
1. Good Bait - Miles Davis, Basie, C.
2. Focus - Miles Davis, Dameron, T.
3. April in Paris - Miles Davis, Duke, V.
4. Webb's Delight - Miles Davis, Dameron, T.
5. Milano - Miles Davis, Lewis, J.
6. Casbah - Miles Davis, Dameron, T.
7. Farewell Blues - Miles Davis, Traditional
8. Conception - Miles Davis, Shearing, G,
9. Ray's Idea - Miles Davis, Brown, R.
10. That Old Black Magic - Miles Davis, Arlen, Harold
11. Max Is Making Wax - Miles Davis, Pettiford, O.
12. Woody 'N' You - Miles Davis, Gillespie, D.

The recordings contained in this album have been re-mastered in order to give them the best quality possible. The album also features specially commissioned artwork. Jazzprint. 2005.

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All Artists: Miles Davis
Title: Early Miles 1 (Reis)
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Jazzprint UK
Original Release Date: 1/1/2005
Re-Release Date: 4/18/2005
Album Type: Original recording remastered, Import
Genres: Jazz, Pop
Style: Bebop
Number of Discs: 2
SwapaCD Credits: 2
UPC: 604388654321

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The recordings contained in this album have been re-mastered in order to give them the best quality possible. The album also features specially commissioned artwork. Jazzprint. 2005.

CD Reviews

Miles Just out of the Woodshed

Herbert L Calhoun | Falls Church, VA USA | 06/03/2008

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Anyone interested in tracing the development of modern Jazz must listen to Miles when he was an infant in the Jazz world's version of the "cradle that rocked." Here, shed of any pretense of musical sophistication is Miles struggling to become Miles: All the elements are there. You can hear them in the subtext, behind the music, but Miles is struggling to find himself in his music.

The title tune "For Adults Only" about says it all. It is vintage early Miles: Steeped deep into the "gansta blues," because that is all that there was at the bottom of the musical pit: There was nothing else. One had to go to the true source of the emotions; in a straight line; never passing Go. Just get there anyway you can and with whatever you've got. That's what Miles is trying to do on this album.

Unaccountably, it is not a "well put together session." The chemistry simply was not there. Nothing gelled. The change in personnel from sides "A" to "B" probably came about as a result of the lack of chemisty.

Still this is a collector's item and the music is Jazz at its unadorned infant best. The tune called "Down," written by Miles, is about as good a statement of Miles' philosophy of life as one is ever likely to get.

Four Stars"