MILES DAVIS: CHRONICLE Ltd Edition 12 LP Set (unplayed)

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You're bidding on the MILES DAVIS - CHRONICLE The Complete Prestige Recordings 1951-1956 12 LP Box Set.  This set was released on Prestige Records in 1980.  The LPs have not been played and are in mint condition.  The box has minor shelf wear.  This Edition is Limited to 10,000 copies.  This is No. 5180.  There is a 24 page black and white LP size booklet attached to the box.  It contains many photos, discography, session notes and liner notes by Dan Morgenstern.  Priority Mail with insurance in the U.S. is $23 and Media Mail with insurance in the U.S. is $13.  Airmail Parcel Post with insurance to Europe is $43.  Other locations to be determined.

Track listing:

Morpheus
Down
Blue Room - (take 1)
Blue Room - (take 2)
Whispering
I Know
Odjenar
Ezz-Thetic
Hibeck
Yesterdays
Conception
Out Of The Blue
Denial
Bluing
Dig
My Old Flame
It's Only A Paper Moon
Compulsion
Serpent's Tooth, The - (take 1)
Serpent's Tooth, The - (take 2)
'Round Midnight
Tasty Pudding
Willie The Wailer
Floppy
For Adults Only
When Lights Are Low
Tune Up
Miles Ahead
Smooch
Four
Old Devil Moon
Blue Haze
Solar
You Don't Know What Love Is
Love Me Or Leave Me
I'll Remember April
Blue 'N' Boogie
Walkin'
Airegin
Oleo
But Not For Me - (take 1)
But Not For Me - (take 2)
Doxy
Bags' Groove - (take 1)
Bags' Groove - (take 2)
Bemsha Swing
Swing Spring
Man I Love, The - (take 1)
Man I Love, The - (take 2)
I Didn't
Will You Still Be Mine?
Green Haze
I See Your Face Before Me
Night In Tunisia, A
Gal In Calico, A
Dr. Jackle
Bitty Ditty
Minor March
Changes
In Your Own Sweet Way
No Line
Vierd Blues
Stablemates
How Am I To Know?
Just Squeeze Me
There Is No Greater Love
Theme, The
S'posin'
In Your Own Sweet Way
Diane
Trane's Blues
Something I Dreamed Last Night
It Could Happen To You
Woodyn' You
Ahmad's Blues
Surrey With The Fringe On Top
It Never Entered My Mind
When I Fall In Love
Salt Peanuts
Four
Theme, The - (take 1)
Theme, The - (take 2)
If I Were A Bell
Well, You Needn't
'Round About Midnight
Half Nelson
You're My Everything
I Could Write A Book
Oleo
Airegin
Tune Up
When Lights Are Low
Blues By Five
My Funny Valentine

Playing time: 551 min.

Contributing artists: Miles Davis (trumpet, piano); Lee Konitz, Jackie McLean, David Schildkraut (alto saxophone); Sonny Rollins, Charlie Parker, Al Cohn, Zoot Sims, Lucky Thompson, John Coltrane (tenor saxophone); Bennie Green, Sonny Truitt, J.J. Johnson (trombone); Milt Jackson (vibraphone); John Lewis, Sal Mosca, Walter Bishop Jr., Charles Mingus, Horace Silver, Thelonious Monk, Red Garland, Ray Bryant, Tommy Flanagan (piano); Billy Bauer (guitar); Percy Heath, Arnold Fishkin, Tommy Potter, Leonard Gaskin, Oscar Pettiford, Paul Chambers (bass); Roy Haynes, Max Roach, Art Blakey, Philly Joe Jones, Kenny Clarke, Art Taylor (drums).

Original Producers: Bob Weinstock, Ira Gitler.

Compilation producer: Orrin Keepnews.  Reissue compilation conceived by Ralph Kaffel.

Engineers include: Les Cahan, Doug Hawkins, Rudy Van Gelder.

Recorded at Apex Studios, New York, New York between January 17 and October 5, 1951; WOR Studios, New York, New York on January 30 and May 19, 1953; Beltone Studios, New York, New York on February 19, 1953 and March 15, 1954; the Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey between April 3, 1954 and October 26, 1956. Includes liner notes by Dan Morgenstern.

CHRONICLE: THE COMPLETE PRESTIGE RECORDINGS isn't a luxury, it's a necessity for fans of Miles Davis. Which isn't to say that listeners can't be perfectly happy with the individual OJC (Original Jazz Classics) reissues of his original recordings. It's just that when Miles first began recording, vinyl discs were moving from the 10" format to the modern 12" long playing, full length format which soon became an industry standard.
As a result, music from one session might very well be divided among several vinyl issues. So it came to pass that the famous Christmas Eve, 1954 session with Monk, Milt Jackson, Percy Heath and Kenny Clarke was split up and released on two separate discs, BAGS' GROOVE and MILES DAVIS AND THE MODERN JAZZ GIANTS. For the true devotee wishing to experience the evolution of Miles' glorious tone, CHRONICLE presents his 1951-1956 sessions in chronological order.
There are two notable exceptions: his 1955 date with Mingus and Elvin Jones, BLUE MOODS (originally recorded for the bassist's Debut label) and another 1955 date (session 15, with Art Taylor, Tommy Flanagan and Sonny Rollins) are presented out of order so that you can hear the uninterrupted development of Davis' classic Coltrane-Red Garland-Paul Chambers-Philly Joe Jones Quintet. The group's final two marathon 1956 sessions fulfilled Miles' contractual commitments, allowed him to sign with Columbia and subsequently yielded WORKIN', STEAMIN', RELAXIN' and COOKIN'. CHRONICLE features Davis with some of the greatest rhythm sections in jazz on definitive performances of "Dig," "Compulsion" (with Charlie Parker and Sonny Rollins on tenor), "Four," "Walkin'" and "Swing Spring." Essential.