Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. E.S.P. - Miles Davis
2. R.J.
3. Eighty-One - Miles Davis
4. Little One
5. Iris
6. Agitation
7. Mood - Miles Davis
8. Circle
9. Orbits
10. Dolores
11. Freedom Jazz Dance

Disc 2:

1. Gingerbread Boy
2. Footprints
3. Limbo
4. Limbo
5. Vonetta
6. Masqualero
7. Masqualero
8. Sorcerer
9. Prince of Darkness
10. Pee Wee
11. Water Babies

Disc 3:

1. Nefertiti
2. Capricorn
3. Madness
4. Hand Jive
5. Hand Jive
6. Hand Jive
7. Madness
8. Madness
9. Sweet Pea
10. Fall
11. Pinocchio

Disc 4:

1. Pinocchio
2. Riot
3. Thisness
4. Circle in the Round
5. Water on the Pond
6. Fun
7. Teo's Bag
8. Teo's Bag

Disc 5:

1. Paraphernalia
2. I Have a Dream
3. Speak Like a Child
4. Sanctuary
5. Side Car I
6. Side Car II
7. Country Son
8. Country Son
9. Black Comedy

Disc 6:

1. Black Comedy
2. Stuff
3. Petits Machins (Little Stuff)
4. Tout de Suite
5. Tout de Suite
6. Filles de Kilimanjaro

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #8302 in Music
• Brand: Sony
• Released on: 2004-05-11
• Number of discs: 6
• Formats: Box set, Extra tracks, Original recording remastered
• Dimensions: 1.34 pounds

Customer Reviews

One of the all-time best Miles Davis box sets
"Miles Davis Quintet, 1965-1968" features nothing less than some of Miles' best music. This box set showcases many of Davis' most innovative albums including "E.S.P.," "Miles Smiles," "Sorcerer," "Nefertiti" and "Miles in the Sky." While the music leans towards psychedelia and the impending fusion movement, this is still jazz by any stretch of the imagination. The mood is cool, intelligent and laid back. While the box set documents the inevitable introduction of electric instruments, it is a gentle preamble. The electric piano is a mere suggestion and the plugged in guitar seems light years away from squealing Jimi Hendrix type power chords. While [...] Brew would eventually pass the point of no return, these six discs suggest mind expansion, but never cross the line. With this 2004 reissue, the listener gets the same music as on the original box set release but for about $30.00 less. Considering that this reissue also comes with a handsome full-color booklet, it is a mystery as to why anyone would pay an additional thirty dollars for the original. The Amazon description claims that this contains additional tracks. While this has tracks not found on the 60's releases, this reissue has the same music found on the 1998 box set. If you've always wanted Miles' 'light trip' music in one place, the "Miles Davis Quintet, 1965-1968" is the perfect box set.

ARGUABLY THE MOST INTERESTING PERIOD OF MILES' CAREER
This remarkable box set focuses on a period of Miles Davis' career that many jazz neophytes tend to overlook. A great deal of attention is spent on Kind of Blue, Sketches of Spain and Bitches Brew - all deservedly so - but each of them represent only a portion of Davis' musical scope. Of all the stylistic changes that Miles Davis undertook, few had been as adventurous and rewarding as the work he created with his second `classic' quintet lineup, featuring Wayne Shorter on saxophone, Herbie Hancock on keyboard, Ron Carter on bass and the explosive Tony Williams on drums.
Unlike the most popular works of Miles Davis, this is not easy listening music, not by any means. The music created by this quintet is challenging and demanding, which is precisely why it is so extraordinary. Repeated listening continues to pay dividends, in spades. Difficult, angular arrangements constantly veer off into ingenious, mind-boggling directions. Following the supple movements of this rhythm section is about as difficult as chasing a kitten, but soloists Davis and Shorter (and Hancock, too, who is a major component of the rhythm section and a startling soloist as well) never seem to lose their footing. It is jazz music as an intricate game of prodding and suggestion, able to go in virtually any direction, with all five members listening to each other with an intensity that most musicians could only aspire to.

From Here You Can Listen For Miles
I bought this handsome 6-CD retrospective because I wanted to dig into the birth of fusion, and Miles Davis gets the credit. The booklet is excellent, very informative. I knew that it covered the Miles Davis Quintet from 1965-68, and that the material from many landmark albums was included. (E.S.P., Miles Smiles, Sorcerer, Nefertiti, and Miles In The Sky). Dollar for dollar, that's a very efficient buy - each CD is over 70 minutes long. The material makes good on the promise, it reaches from traditional jazz all the way through to pre-Silent Way, Brew long jams. Really fascinating, diverse, beautiful, and thoroughly listenable music. The Davis Quintet creates its own atmosphere, almost its own vocabulary.

As I played one CD after another, I became happier and happier about buying 6 Miles Davis CDs. But I realized something rather obvious that I had overlooked. This was an all-star quintet. I had also purchased 6 Tony Williams CDs, and he has never sounded better. Same for Herbie Hancock, who, at the time, was something of an enfant terrible. Same for Wayne Shorter who simply smokes like a southbound train. Same for Ron Carter who had the nice habit of quietly turning up on just about every jazz record worth listening to in those days. I read recently that Davis wasn't a technical virtuoso and I guess that's true. But he had a genius for picking talent and he was certainly a visionary. This superb collection showcases some of the most interesting and pivotal music of its day. Wonderful.