The Essential Miles Davis


The Essential Miles Davis is a 2-CD compilation album by Miles Davis released by Columbia Legacy on May 15, 2001. It belongs to Sony Music Entertainment's "The Essential" series, not to the series "Essentials", established by WEA International, and was released as part of Sony's Miles 75 Anniversary program. In 2008, The Essential Miles Davis 3.0 was released as a limited edition album featuring a bonus third disc that added five more songs to the original track list.

Track listing

CD1

  1. "Now's the Time" - C. Parker
  2. "Jeru" - G. Mulligan
  3. "Compulsion" - M. Davis
  4. "Tempus Fugit" - B. Powell
  5. "Walkin'" - Richard Carpenter
  6. "Round Midnight" - T. Monk - B. Hanighen - C. Williams
  7. "Bye Bye Blackbird" - M. Dixon - R. Henderson
  8. "New Rhumba" - A. Jamal
  9. "Generique" - M. Davis
  10. "Summertime" - G. Gershwin - I. Gershwin - D. Heyward
  11. "So What" - M. Davis
  12. "The Pan Piper" - Gil Evans
  13. "Someday My Prince Will Come" - F.E. Churchill - L. Morey

    CD2

  14. "My Funny Valentine " - R. Rodgers - L. Hart
  15. "E.S.P." - Miles Davis - W. Shorter
  16. "Nefertiti" - W. Shorter
  17. "Petits Machins " - Miles Davis - Gil Evans
  18. "Miles Runs the Voodoo Down" - Miles Davis
  19. "Little Church" - H. Pascoal
  20. "Black Satin" - Miles Davis
  21. "Jean Pierre " - Miles Davis
  22. "Time After Time" - C. Lauper - R. Hyman
  23. "Portia" - M. Miller

    CD3 (Limited Edition)

  24. "Stella by Starlight" - V. Young - N. Washington
  25. "Milestones" - M. Davis
  26. "Seven Steps to Heaven" - M. Davis - V. Feldman
  27. "Footprints" - W. Shorter
  28. "In a Silent Way" - J. Zawinul

    Personnel

Charts