 | Birth of the Cool by Miles Davis
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $3.55 1950. I'm not a fan of the RVG Editions, but this one was made from a better source than the other CD editions of this album were.
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 | 'Round About Midnight by Miles Davis
Buy new: $15.98 / Used from: $9.74 1956. The First Quintet (with John Coltrane). The 2-disc edition includes a great concert from the same year.
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 | Miles Ahead by Miles Davis
Buy new: $7.98 / Used from: $2.73 1957. Beautiful collaboration with Gil Evans (and his orchestra).
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 | Ascenseur Pour L'Echafaud (Lift To The Scaffold): Original Soundtrack
Buy used from: $6.97 1957. Inspired by the actual film, projected on the wall of the Parisian recording studio.
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 | Milestones by Miles Davis
Buy new: $7.98 / Used from: $3.99 1958. The Quintet has now changed into a sextet (with Cannonball Adderley).
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 | '58 Miles Featuring Stella by Starlight by Miles Davis
Buy used from: $12.84 1958. Half studio, half live. The sextet now has Bill Evans on piano.
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 | At Newport 1958 by Miles Davis
Buy new: $9.98 / Used from: $0.74 1958. Great concert by the sextet.
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 | Porgy and Bess by Miles Davis
Buy new: $7.98 / Used from: $2.87 1958. Beautiful interpretation of the Gershwin opera, with Gil Evans (and his orchestra).
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 | Kind of Blue by Miles Davis
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $2.29 1959. The sextet again. An essential album if ever there was one.
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 | In Stockholm 1960 Complete by Miles Davis
1960. The last tour with Coltrane in the band, which is now a quintet. A must-have, but now hard to find.
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 | Sketches of Spain by Miles Davis
Buy new: $7.98 / Used from: $2.00 1960. The third great collaboration with Gil Evans. They capture the Spanish feel.
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 | Someday My Prince Will Come by Miles Davis
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $2.30 1961. Coltrane returns for two tracks on this studio album. The new tenor saxist is Hank Mobley.
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 | In Person Friday and Saturday Nights at the Blackhawk, Complete by Miles Davis
Buy new: $27.97 / Used from: $21.77 1961. Two double CDs of a great club date, with Hank Mobley still in the quintet.
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 | Seven Steps to Heaven by Miles Davis
Buy new: $7.98 / Used from: $4.97 1963. Half of this album is by the new band with Herbie Hancock, Tony Williams and tenor saxist George Coleman.
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 | Miles Davis in Europe by Miles Davis
Buy used from: $2.86 1963. Exciting live recording by the new band. Tony Williams sets the band on fire.
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 | E.S.P. by Miles Davis
Buy new: $7.98 / Used from: $3.74 1965. The first and best studio album of the Second Quintet, with Wayne Shorter on tenor sax.
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 | Miles Smiles by Miles Davis
Buy new: $7.98 / Used from: $3.74 1966. The follow-up to "E.S.P.", and almost as good.
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 | Filles De Kilimanjaro (Deluxe Edition) (Bonus Track) by Miles Davis
Buy used from: $1.99 1968. The piano is now an electric one. With modern rhythms added, it sounds fresh, and beautiful.
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 | In a Silent Way by Miles Davis
Buy new: $7.98 / Used from: $3.98 1969. The electric sound further developed. Hypnotic, but exciting.
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 | Bitches Brew by Miles Davis
Buy new: $15.98 / Used from: $7.31 1969. Voodoo jazz? Beyond category, it has nothing to do with elevator music known as "fusion".
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 | A Tribute to Jack Johnson by Miles Davis
Buy new: $7.98 / Used from: $5.26 1970. Funk, but better. MD had said he could form the best "rock band" ever, and proves it.
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 | Live-Evil by Miles Davis
Buy used from: $160.95 The best live album from this period. The unedited concerts are available as the box set "The Cellar Door sessions 1970".
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 | On the Corner by Miles Davis
Buy new: $7.98 / Used from: $3.48 1972. Hated at the time, because it was 25 years ahead. Another masterpiece.
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 | We Want Miles by Miles Davis
Buy new: $12.98 / Used from: $5.48 1981 live comeback album. MD's trumpet playing not yet fully recovered, but a great band all the same.
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 | Live Around the World by Miles Davis
Buy new: $7.98 / Used from: $1.99 Live recordings from the last years, when the concerts were better than the studio albums.
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