Miles Davis
Kind Of Blue (LP) [ Columbia / Legacy / LP - released 16/Oct/2015 ] Kind of Blue isn't merely an artistic highlight for Miles Davis, it's an album that towers above its peers, a record generally considered as the definitive jazz album. To be reductive, it's the Citizen Kane of jazz -- an accepted work of greatness... |
Miles Davis
Bitches Brew (Re-mastered Special Edition With Bonus Track) (2CD) [ Columbia / Legacy Records / 2 CD - released 8/Jun/1999 ] Now digitally re-mastered with a bonus track, 'Bitches Brew' is Miles at his best! Featuring contributions from Wayne Shorter, Chick Corea, Dave Holland, Jack DeJohnette, Bennie Maupin, Joe Zawinul, John McLaughlin, and more. |
Miles Davis
The Complete Birth of the Cool [remastered] [ Capitol Records / CD - released 6/Sep/2019 ] Features all tracks from the legendary session, completely remastered with 24 page booklet. |
Miles Davis
Filles De Kilimanjaro [ Columbia Records / CD - released 9/Sep/1990 ] Filles de Kilimanjaro has an odd pedigree for an "album" -- it was recorded in two different sessions, featuring two different lineups. |
Miles Davis
Kind Of Blue [ Sony / BMG / CD - released 23/Mar/2018 ] A masterpiece that forever redefined the place of jazz in popular music. |
Miles Davis
Milestones (with bonus tracks) [ Columbia / CD - released 3/Apr/2009 ] Tenor saxophonist John Coltrane's return to Davis' group in 1958 coincided with the "modal phase" albums: Milestones and Kind of Blue (1959) are both considered essential examples of 1950s modern jazz. Davis at this point was experimenting with modes... |
Miles Davis
Round About Midnight (Mono LP) [ Music On Vinyl / LP - released 20/Apr/2013 ] Widely acknowledged by jazz critics and aficionados as a landmark in 'hard bop' and one of the greatest jazz albums ever, Miles' 1956 Columbia Records debut showcased his first legendary quintet featuring John Coltrane. |
Miles Davis
Sketches Of Spain (180g LP) [ Columbia / LP - released 16/Oct/2015 ] Along with Kind of Blue, In a Silent Way, and Round About Midnight, Sketches of Spain is one of Miles Davis' most enduring and innovative achievements. Recorded between November 1959 and March 1960 -- after Coltrane and Cannonball Adderley had left... |
Miles Davis
That's What Happened 1982 - 1985: The Bootleg Series Vol. 7 (White Vinyl LP) [ Columbia Records / 2 LP - released 16/Sep/2022 ] That's What Happened 1982-1985: Bootleg Volume 7 is the next instalment in the celebrated, award-winning archival series that began in 2011, shining an in-depth light onto different eras of the legendary career of Miles Davis. In the 1980s, popular... |
Miles Davis
Volume 2 (Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 15/Mar/2024 ] Legendary trumpeter Miles Davis was still near the start of his storied career when he cut the three sessions that comprise his Blue Note recordings in 1952, 1953, and 1954. Blue Note later compiled the tracks into two 12" LPs as part of the 1500... |
Miles Davis All Stars
Walkin' (LP) [ Concord / LP - released 27/Oct/2023 ] The undeniable strength and conviction present in Miles Davis' performance on Walkin', underscores the urgency and passion with which he would rightfully reclaim his status as a primary architect of bop. Davis is supported by his all-stars,... |
Miles Davis & Michael Legrand
Dingo: Selections From The Motion Picture Soundtrack (Limited LP) [ Rhino / Warner / LP - released 7/Jan/2022 ] Dingo: Selections from the Motion Picture Soundtrack is the soundtrack to the 1992 movie of the same name. Late jazz great Miles Davis made his only acting appearance in Dingo, a film about a jazz trumpeter who dares to realize his musical dreams... |
WOLF / BRAHMS
Lieder by Wolf & Brahms Alastair Miles (bass) & Marie-Nöelle Kendall (piano) [ Signum Classics / CD - released 3/Jun/2014 ] Miles's oaken depth of tone and amplitude of line are impressive, and ultimately moving...it's a nobly sung recital, confirming that the leading English operatic basso cantante is also a Lieder singer of intelligence and insight. |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mendelssohn: Elias (Elijah) (Complete Oratorio in German) Alastair Miles, Jard van Nes, Helen Donath / Israel Philharmonic, Kurt Masur [ Teldec / 2 CD Box Set - released 1/May/1993 ] Contains comprehensive book and translations |
Andrea Bocelli (tenor) with Sarah Brightman, Gerardina Trovato & John Miles
Romanza (Remastered 20th Anniversary Edition, with bonus tracks) [ Universal Music / CD - released 18/Nov/2016 ] Considered Andrea's breakthrough album and still the best-selling Italian album of all time, this special re-mastered edition also boasts 3 bonus tracks including 2 brand new versions of the legendary 'Con Te Partirò' (Time To Say Goodbye). |
Carmen McRae, Miles Davis Quartet, Sarah Vaughan, Ruby Braff, Paul Desmond, June Christy, etc
Rodgers & Hart Songbook - Blue Moon [ Jazz Giants Play / CD - released 12/Oct/2005 ] Rodgers and Hart were an American songwriting partnership between composer Richard Rodgers (1902-1979) and the lyricist Lorenz Hart (1895-1943). They worked together on 28 stage musicals and more than 500 songs from 1919 until Hart's death in 1943. |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Beethoven: Mass in C major / Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage Charlotte Margiono, Catherine Robbin, William Kendall, Alastair Miles / Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique, Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner [ Deutsche Grammophon Archiv / CD - released 10/Aug/2006 ] "As in the Missa solemnis, an outstanding contribution is made by the Monteverdi Choir. Splendidly athletic, for instance, are the leaps of a seventh in the fugal "Hosanna". Distinction is certainly a word to use of the record as a whole." (Gramophone) |
WILLIAM CONGREVE / GEORGE FARQUHAR / RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: An 18th Century Comedy Album: The Way of the World; The Beaux' Stratagem; The School for Scandal Dame Edith Evans / Sir John Gielgud / Pauline Jameson / Ralph Truman / Miles Malleson / Anthony Quayle and others [ EMI Classic English Drama / CD - released 17/Sep/2006 ] A demonstartion of Edith Evan's matchless prowess in Restoration comedy. |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Verdi: Requiem / Quattro Pezzi Sacri [Four Sacred Pieces] Luba Orgonasova, Anne Sofie von Otter, Luca Canonici, Alastair Miles, Donna Brown / Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, John Eliot Gardiner [ Philips / 2 CD Box Set - released 2/Feb/1995 ] "Gardiner, using period forces, is searingly dramatic and superbly recorded, with fine detail, combining transparent textures, weight and atmospheric bloom...The soloists make a characterful quartet." Penguin Guide |