Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue - Japanese SACD Deluxe Edition - SUPER-AUDIO CD [Super Audio CD (SACD)]

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue [SUPER-AUDIO CD] Hybrid SACD, Orig Master Rec date 07/10/2015

To commemorate the 100th anniversary of Miles Davis's birth in 2026, the Centennial Miles Davis SACD Selection presents three titles as hybrid SACD editions, each featuring newly remastered audio prepared by renowned mastering engineer Kevin Gray for Blue Note's popular Tone Poet and Classic Vinyl reissue series, and marking the first time these remastered sources have been released on SACD.

This Japan-exclusive combines a live recording from the Newport Jazz Festival on July 3, 1958, tracks 1 through 7, with studio sessions recorded in May 1958, tracks 8 through 11, featuring the same lineup that would later record Kind of Blue, capturing a pivotal moment in Miles Davis' career following band changes that saw Jimmy Cobb replace Philly Joe Jones on drums and Bill Evans replace Red Garland on piano, with recordings made in May and a landmark Newport performance in July, eight months before Kind of Blue sessions began, and with tracks 8 through 11 previously issued in Japan on the 1979 hit album 1958 Miles with jacket art by Masuo Ikeda, presented here as a Limited Edition SA-CD Hybrid in stereo housed in a 7-inch paper jacket, featuring performances by Miles Davis on trumpet, Cannonball Adderley on alto saxophone, John Coltrane on tenor saxophone, Bill Evans on piano, Paul Chambers on bass, and Jimmy Cobb on drums, with the complete tracklist consisting of InchIntroduction, Inch InchA Lew Cha, Inch InchStraight, No Chaser, Inch InchFlan Dance, Inch InchTwo Bass Hit, Inch InchBye Bye Blackbird, Inch InchThe Theme, Inch InchOn Green Dolphin Street, Inch InchFlan Dance, Inch InchStella by Starlight, Inch and InchLove for Sale, Inch recorded live at Newport for tracks 1 through 7 and at Columbia 30th Street Studio in New York on May 26, 1958, for tracks 8 through 11.