I am with you there brother. Still I think your 3 picks are the most representative of his varied body of work as well as being the most universally criticaly aclaimed from each of the represented periods.

Well it might well have changed but I don't want to drive you nuts. It is a moratal sin to neglect his second great quintet but I grew up with his first one in my teens and perhaps that explains why it is my favorite dispite most the critial world digging the second more now days. That however was not always the case just read lenord Feather or Martin Williams back in the day. Yes, dispite that post above me being a better representave 3 to recomed to a friend to get them started, I will stick to my guns of my personal picks in this crule universe you have created where I only get 3.



Now if you could cut a brothe some rythm and let me pick 5 box sets I could sleep better on this deset island yopu put me on. Say with Chronicals, Miles & Trane, Miles & Gil, Compleate Plugged Nickle, and Second Great Quintet in that order, I b cool 4 a week or so. Then, so you don't think I write off his eletric, I might even go for that 18 cd box of his 80s stuff at Montrax it ain't like the golden years but then what is. Peace Seba

Kind of Blue
Dark Magus
Nefertiti

Kind Of Blue (what is there left to say about this monumental recording?)
Bitches Brew (Almost single handedly invented jazz rock)
On The Corner (This is what it would sound like if Hendrix had done a jazz album. Everyone needs to hear this at least once. Some of the music on this album is downright insane)

What! Did you break out da William Faulkner for that?



Anyway, in my opinion, someone should release a damn Teo Macero boxed set! It would be kind of huge and all. I'm sure you could break it up somehow.

If we are talking about the top 5 Miles Box's I would choose

Live at the Plugged Nickel
Miles & Coltrane
2nd Quintet
Bitches Brew Sessions
In a Silent Way Sessions


The Quiet Nights sessions on the Miles and Gil set, makes it hard to include. The rest of that set is prime grade AAA material.


Yo!

when u right u right bout dat quite nights saba swil, but dat y cd players b programable, but my brother u left out chronical, the prestige....Miles w monk man...............well acually not with monk as miles didn't dig his playing behind his solos so he made him lay out when he soloed, but those great cookin, relaxing, steaming, workin sessions are must haves.

I think joe's stuff shines on silent way and i think it is too far back in the sadow of bithces brew

on the BB box i think john really shines, his guitar is subversive man

that jack johnson box aint bad either, a lot of m base, go-go, acid jazz, drew from dat well.

so i can c y u want da some of da electrics represented but i gotsta stick with my origianl 5 for me dat s*#t just be a cut above

I didn't include Chronicles, because all of the recordings that make up the box set have been remastered to much better sounding cds. Including the session with Monk, which led to the alleged incident that Mingus' open letter to Miles in Downbeat was about.


Have you heard the new Seven Steps set? The Philharmonic Hall recordings, that were released as My Funny Valentine & Four and More are included in the proper order and unedited for the first time. I already had the Japanese editions of the rest. Although, the box now has unedited versions of the rest and the usual alt takes. And you can never go wrong with more Miles.


I was hoping they would find more live material from the period with Sam Rivers or Wayne Shorter's first days in the group.





I am just going to start listening to the the Philharmonic section of the set now.

Yo!

I'm just getting into some jazz, but I'd have to say, some of the cuts I heard from Miles in the sky is pretty funcky.. hancock jams quite well on the electric keyboard