50 years since the original album's conception and still one of the greatest ever jazz records. Now afforded the deluxe treatment to create a superb package thatwill wow critics and consumer alike.
- An album that sits alongside Sgt Pepper in the iconic stakes
- 12-Inch Slipcase Legacy Box Set Edition
- 2 CDs with original album and alternate takes
- 17 minute performance of 'So What' live in Holland 1960
- DVD
- 60 Page Book, photos
- 180g blue vinyl
Kind Of Blue: 50th Anniversary Collector's Edition is an expansive and lavishly-designed, super-deluxe 12-inch slipcase box set.
It gathers the Entire panoramic sweep of the album's History 'Past, Present and Future' Onto two CDs (running time over two hours); A newly-produced black-and-white documentary DVD (55 minutes); a full-size (12x12) 60-page perfect-bound book of critical essays, annotations, disco Graphic Data, timeline, and copious photography; and an envelope chockful of memorabilia; all Accompanied for The First Time in the History of Legacy Recordings by the original 12-inch LP package pressed on 180-gram blue vinyl. Together with at enormous 22x33 fold-out poster of Miles, the box set will be available from Sony BMG on October 27th
Of special importance to Miles Davis aficionados around the globe is the DVD produced by Nell Mulderry: Celebrating A Masterpiece: Kind of Blue.
The new DVD Incorporates material from the 2004 Mini-documentary, Made In Heaven, Including black-and-white silent photography of the recording sessions and the voices of Miles (at the sessions), as well as excerpts of radio interviews with the late Bill Evans and Cannonball Adderley.
There are interviews with musicians and luminaries Including composer / performer David Amram, the late Ed Bradley, Ron Carter, Jimmy Cobb, Bill Cosby, Herbie Hancock (who Demonstrates So What at the piano), Eddie Henderson, Shirley Horn, Dave Liebman, the late Jackie McLean, Me'Shell Ndege'Ocello, hip-hop's Q-Tip, Carlos Santana, John Scofield, Horace Silver, and many others.
Disc 1
1. So What
2. Freddie Freeloader
3. Blue In Green
4. All Blues
5. Flamenco Sketches
6. Flamenco Sketches (Alternate Take)
7. Freddie Freeloader - Studio Sequence 1
8. Freddie Freeloader - False start 1
9. Freddie Freeloader - Studio Sequence 2
10 So What - Studio Sequence 1
11 So What - Studio Sequence 2
12 Blue In Green - Studio Sequence
13. Flamenco Sketches - Studio Sequence 1
14. Flamenco Sketches - Studio Sequence 2
15. All Blues - Studio Sequence
Disc 2
1. On Green Dolphin Street
2. Fran-Dance
3. Stella By Starlight
4. Love For Sale
5. Fran-Dance (Alternate Take)
6. So What
DVD:
* Celebrating A Masterpiece: Kind Of Blue Documentary (55 mins)
* Robert Herridge Theatre: The Sound of Miles Davis (26 mins)
* Photo gallery by Don Hunstein
180-gram blue vinyl LP:
* A1. So What
* A2. Freddie Freeloader
* A3. Blue in Green
* B1 All Blues
* B2 Flamenco Sketches