Michel Legrand has spent most of his life as a composer in the studios and for films, but this release is a jazz classic.Tenor great Ben Webster, flutist Herbie Mann, four trombonists, and a rhythm section perform pieces by Duke Ellington, Earl Hines, Django Reinhardt ("Nuages"), and the Count Basie-associated "Blue and Sentimental." A big band with trumpeters Art Farmer and Donald Byrd and altoist Phil Woods plays "Stompin' at the Savoy," "A Night in Tunisia," and Bix Beiderbecke's "In a Mist." The most famous session has Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Phil Woods, Herbie Mann, pianist Bill Evans, harp, vibes, baritone, and a rhythm section performing music by Thelonious Monk, John Lewis, Jelly Roll Morton ("Wild Man Blues"), and Fats Waller's "Jitterbug Waltz." Throughout this superlative album, the arrangements are colorful and unusual, making one wish that Legrand had recorded more jazz albums through the years.

Released in 2007 by RLR Records, Live In Milan 1964 captures a monumental evening in jazz history during the Miles Davis Quintet's historic European tour. Recorded live at the Teatro dell'Arte in Milan on October 11, 1964, this performance showcases the legendary "Second Great Quintet" at a spectacular evolutionary peak. Flanked by a prodigious, hyper-intuitive young rhythm section—featuring Wayne Shorter on tenor saxophone, Herbie Hancock on piano, Ron Carter on double bass, and Tony Williams on drums—Miles Davis pushes the boundaries of post-bop and modal exploration. The tracklist is an astonishing display of elastic group improvisation, transforming standard repertoire into radical sonic dialogues. From the sprawling, exploratory geometry of Autumn Leaves and the deeply lyrical, spacious tension of My Funny Valentine to the propulsive, open-ended modal grooves of All Blues, this high-fidelity archive brilliantly documents the birth of a revolutionary jazz language.

Originally released in 1958 and presented here as the classic 1988 CBS mono CD reissue, Milestones is an absolute towering masterpiece in the history of modern jazz. This seminal album marks the historic studio recording debut of Miles Davis's legendary First Great Sextet, an unparalleled lineup featuring John Coltrane on tenor sax, Cannonball Adderley on alto sax, Red Garland on piano, Paul Chambers on bass, and Philly Joe Jones on drums. Most famously, the record acts as the definitive architectural bridge between traditional hard bop and modern modal jazz, with the revolutionary title track shifting away from complex chord changes to pioneer scale-based improvisation—a concept that would soon reshape the genre and culminate in Kind of Blue. From the blistering velocity of Jackie McLean's Dr. Jackle and the definitive sextet reading of Thelonious Monk's Straight, No Chaser, to the beautiful trio showcase of Billy Boy, this pristine high-fidelity mono archive captures a profound musical revolution at its absolute genesis.

The most requested Miles Davis reissue arrives for his centennial in spectacular style. What began as a holiday residency at Chicago’s Plugged Nickel Café became the crucible where the Second Great Quintet forged its identity. Miles, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, and Tony Williams delivered a masterclass in risk and invention, dismantling familiar tunes and rebuilding them on the fly. Producer Teo Macero captured every note across seven sets on December 22 and 23, 1965.

On this legendary, historic archival compilation, Original Jazz Classics reissues a monumental crossroads in the birth of modern jazz. Appropriately titled Conception, this pristine high-fidelity release compiles seminal studio sessions captured by audio pioneer Rudy Van Gelder between 1949 and 1951, documenting the thrilling transition from fiery bebop into the sophisticated, relaxed architecture of Cool Jazz. The album serves as a masterclass in mid-century improvisation, bringing together an unmatched, mind-boggling assembly of jazz giants including Miles Davis, Stan Getz, and Lee Konitz at the dawn of their creative empires. The music bristles with adventurous genius, running from Lee Konitz's angular, brilliant George Russell-penned charts like "Odjenar" and "Ezz-Thetic" to the breathtakingly smooth, linear tenor work of Stan Getz on "Intoit" and the deep, soulful trumpet lyricism of Miles Davis on the title track. Backed by powerhouse rhythm section royalty including Max Roach, Art Blakey, and Roy Haynes, this essential collection stands as an invaluable historical document of jazz's great evolutionary leap.

AVID Jazz presents the latest release in our Four Classic Album series with a re-mastered 2CD release from Miles Davis, in both Quintet, Sextet and as The Modern Jazz Giants formations, complete with original artwork. "Miles Davis & Milt Jackson: Quintet / Sextet"; "Miles Davis & The Modern Jazz Giants: Bags' Groove"; "The Miles Davis Quintet: Miles" and "Miles Davis: Miles Davis & The Modern Jazz Giants".

Miles100 is a contemporary jazz album by American keyboardist, songwriter, and record producer David Garfield, officially released on July 3, 2026, through his independent record label, Creatchy Records. The album is a special tribute project tied to the centennial celebration of jazz icon Miles Davis (who was born in May 1926). The release showcases David Garfield's signature West Coast jazz fusion and contemporary style. It incorporates reimagined arrangements of classic jazz motifs.

Kind of Lives is Paolo Fresu's project, paying homage to the musical legacy of Miles Davis, a central and revolutionary figure in the history of jazz.

Some performances get talked about decades after they happened. It's all about "you had to be there" and if you would believe all the people who claimed to be present at such a show, the venue would have collapsed. Two of those shows are now released in full. Trumpet maestro Miles Davis performed at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam on April 9 and October 15, 1960. John Coltrane was on sax in April and his replacement Sonny Stitt played in October. With Wynton Kelly on piano, Paul Chambers on bass and Jimmy Cobb on drums. Miles Davis was on fire both nights.
The shows were recorded professionally for Dutch radio and have been gathering dust in the vault of the Dutch Jazz Archief. This organisation has gotten into serious financial trouble recently, losing its government .grant. So What - The Complete 1960 Amsterdam Concerts is the seventh release in their Jazz at the Concertgebouw series…

Finally, a non-bootleg issue of one of Miles Davis' greatest electric performances ever. In fact this is the very first of the Miles Davis Quintet's electric gigs - it was also one of the last four performances of this great band. Not just recorded, but performed. The band, consisting of Davis, Wayne Shorter on soprano and tenor, Chick Corea on Fender Rhodes, Dave Holland on both acoustic and electric bass, and Jack DeJohnette on drums. With percussionist Airto Moreira providing color and texture, the band became a sextet. This night is auspicious because audiences - most of which were there to see the Steve Miller Band or Neil Young and Crazy Horse (Davis' group opened for both) - were familiar with the electric side of Davis because In a Silent Way had been issued late in 1969 and had introduced the world to John McLaughlin. Bitches Brew, which had been recorded the summer before, would be released a month after these concerts, and an unsuspecting rock audience had no idea what to expect…

Released to celebrate Miles Davis’ centennial, Miles ’56: The Prestige Recordings brings together recordings from 1956, the year Davis recorded his most influential work on Prestige. With cuts from the four albums recorded with Rudy Van Gelder, “Cookin,” “Relaxin,” “Workin” and “Steamin”, this collection includes the first great quintet of Davis, Coltrane, Garland, Chambers, & Jones. Remastered from the original analog tapes by GRAMMY-winning engineer Paul Blakemore.

Best of the Complete Savoy & Dial Studio Recordings is a spectacularly expressive, historically monumental, and masterfully synchronized bebop studio compilation masterpiece led by the absolute ultimate architectural genius, alto saxophone vanguard pioneer, and modern jazz monarch Charlie "Bird" Parker, digitally preserved and released on compact disc in 2002 under the prestigious archival banner of Savoy Jazz. Spanning over 60 minutes of breathtakingly intense, conceptually profound instrumental interactions across 20 definitive tracking alignments, this high-fidelity document serves as an absolute peak monument in mid-to-late 1940s modern jazz archaeology. Gathering the absolute finest, foundational master takes from Parker's historic tenures for both the Savoy and Dial imprints between 1944 and 1948, this landmark collection documents the explosive birth and structural blueprint of the entire bebop revolution.

Chango's Dance is a spectacularly explosive, historically monumental, and masterfully synchronized Afro-Cuban and Latin jazz studio masterpiece led by the legendary Bronx-born master percussionist and directional vanguard pioneer Bobby Matos, digitally preserved and released on compact disc in 1995 as the historic, catalog-initiating flagship release for Ubiquity's premier independent archival preservation imprint CuBop Records. Spanning over 75 minutes of breathtakingly intense, heavily syncopated organic-acoustic interactions across 12 full ensemble pieces and 5 deep ceremonial interludes, this high-fidelity document serves as an absolute pinnacle monument in mid-1990s West Coast Afro-Latin groove archaeology. Rooted deeply in the raw Nuyorican street-rhythm traditions of the 1960s and 1970s, Matos utilizes this expansive studio laboratory to execute a fierce, forward-thinking sonic blueprint that daringly bridges structural hard bop modalism with the complex polyrhythmic geometries of sacred Yoruba ancestral drum languages.