The Miles Davis Quintet ‎– The Legendary Prestige Quintet Sessions (4 CD, 2006)


 The Legendary Prestige Quintet Sessions is a four compact disc box set of recordings by the Miles Davis Quintet released in 2006 by the Concord Music Group. It collates on three discs the entire set of recordings that made up the Prestige Records albums released from 1956 through 1961.



The track "'Round Midnight" was released on the album Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants. The fourth disc contains live material from a television broadcast and in jazz club settings. It peaked at #15 on the Billboard jazz album chart, and was reissued on December 2, 2016, in a smaller compact disc brick packaging.

  • Miles Davis — trumpet
  • John Coltrane — tenor saxophone
  • Red Garland — piano
  • Bill Evans — piano on disc four tracks 7-10
  • Paul Chambers — bass
  • Philly Joe Jones — drums

CD1

01. Stablemates [5:25]
02. How Am I To Know? [4:41]
03. Just Squeeze Me [7:29]
04. There Is No Greater Love [5:22]
05. The Theme [5:52]
06. S'posin' [5:17]
07. In Your Own Sweet Way [5:47]
08. Diane [7:52]
09. Trane's Blues [8:37]
10. Something I Dreamed Last Night [6:15]

CD2

01. It Could Happen To You [6:41]
02. Woody'n You [5:04]
03. Ahmad's Blues [7:29]
04. Surrey With The Fringe On Top [9:07]
05. It Never Entered My Mind [5:27]
06. When I Fall In Love [4:28]
07. Salt Peanuts [6:10]
08. Four [7:17]
09. The Theme (Take 1) [2:02]
10. The Theme (Take 2) [1:07]
11. If I Were A Bell [8:20]
12. Well, You Needn't [6:20]

CD3

01. 'Round Midnight [5:25]
02. Half Nelson [4:49]
03. You’re My Everything [5:22]
04. I Could Write A Book [5:11]
05. Oleo [6:31]
06. Airegin [4:27]
07. Tune Up [5:41]
08. When Lights Are Low [7:36]
09. Blues By Five [10:26]
10. My Funny Valentine [6:01]]

CD4

01. Steve Allen Intro (17-11-55 The Tonight Show with Steve Allen) [1:52]
02. Max Is Making Wax aka: Chance It (17-11-55 The Tonight Show with Steve Allen) [3:06]
03. Steve Allen Intro 2 (17-11-55 The Tonight Show with Steve Allen) [2:01]
04. It Never Entered My Mind (17-11-55 The Tonight Show with Steve Allen) [2:58]
05. Tune Up (08-12-56 The Blue Note, Philadelphia, PA) [4:23]
06. Walkin' (08-12-56 The Blue Note, Philadelphia, PA) [5:22]
07. Four (17-05-58 Cafe Bohemia, New York, NY) [4:54]
08. Bye Bye Blackbird (17-05-58 Cafe Bohemia, New York, NY) [6:55]
09. Walkin' (17-05-58 Cafe Bohemia, New York, NY) [6:36]
10. Two Bass Hit (17-05-58 Cafe Bohemia, New York, NY) [0:46]