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Obviously not the material covered in the book, but still worth owning...

MILES DAVIS AND THE COMING OF THE SECOND GREAT QUINTET

SEVEN STEPS: THE COMPLETE COLUMBIA RECORDINGS OF MILES DAVIS 1963-1964 TRACES CREATION OF HIS ‘60s GROUP WITH WAYNE SHORTER, HERBIE HANCOCK, RON CARTER, AND TONY WILLIAMS

7-CD BOX SET INCLUDES ENTIRE SEVEN STEPS TO HEAVEN SESSIONS AND UNEDITED MILES DAVIS IN EUROPE ANTIBES FEST DATE

PLUS: NY PHILHARMONIC HALL CONCERT RESTORED TO ORIGINAL SEQUENCE; FULL MILES IN TOKYO AND MILES IN BERLIN DATES, NEVER AVAILABLE IN U.S. CATALOG UNTIL NOW

47 selections - 7 previously unissued performances, 3 in newly unedited form

92-page booklet with liner notes written by 3-time Grammy-winning reissue producer Michael Cuscuna, and 2-time Grammy winner Bob Blumenthal

7th box set in Miles Davis Series, newest addition to series that began in 1996, will arrive in stores September 28th on Columbia/Legacy Jazz

Paraphrasing its title from the 1963 LP that introduced the first three new members of the quintet on half its tracks (Hancock, Carter, Williams, working with Miles and tenor saxophonist George Coleman), this lavishly-packaged seven-CD box set methodically delineates the chronological evolution of the group over the course of six distinct albums:

Seven Steps To Heaven, with four previously unissued performances from the sessions in Los Angeles (in April) and New York (in May) that produced the LP;

Miles Davis In Europe, with two previously unissued tunes – and three more heard for the first time in unedited form - from the Antibes jazz festival in France two and a half months later in July;

My Funny Valentine, a ballads LP with the previously unissued “Autumn Leaves,” the first of two albums culled from two long concert sets at NY’s Philharmonic Hall in February 1964;

Four & More, the follow-up LP from the Philharmonic Hall date, emphasizing uptempo material;

Miles In Tokyo, in which Sam Rivers replaced Coleman for an historic set at Kohseinenkin Hall in July 1964, never available in Miles’ U.S. Columbia catalog until now; and

Miles In Berlin, in which Shorter finally enters the lineup for this September 1964 concert, also never available in Miles’ U.S. Columbia catalog until now, with the previously unissued “Stella By Starlight.”