I'm going to do this as a tallied poll, so just list your three favorite Miles Davis recordings (( boxes excluded )) and I'll compile everyone's votes here.

I'll start.

Kind of Blue
E.S.P.
Miles Smiles

What? What about his first great quintet. Cooking cooks. 4 kick ass cds cut in two sessions so he could go to columbia from prestige. What? No Gil Evans, sure hard as hell to pick from miles, skeches, and porgy, but man you need one. What no nonet birth of the cool. I won't even go to Bithes. And KOB is a gimm me. ESP greater than the ones I noted noway man and how can you leave out Cooking or Porgy two duble down on the shorter years. Miles smiles is aguably one of thier better studio works but not ESP, and to most the plugged nickel, compleat is the best this band got in 65. How about 3 best of the beaten path cds. like lift to the gallows the french filem score from 57 were miles goes modal way before KOB, or even the under appreacete someday my prince will come the last time trane graced miles on wax in 61 it is light weight but it has a quante, balmy charm and i have always had a soft spot for hank mobley ever since his days with art, or how about the smoking live in sweeden 1960 4 cd set, or how about Aura in da 80s dat b a bad ass recording.


I'd like to seee your qestion re Fats navaro or lee morgan or booker littel or the mofo of tone clifford brown his shit w max roach swing like it need 2 b on a poarch


peace out bro

or clark terry his flumpet was da bomb or since mile cut his teeth w da bird how bouts red rodney he be a bad beboper mofo.....true more bebop than hard bop like da 2 cool horn blowers we b talking bout but he burn up dat horn.........buts i alwaz digs the gospel dat b in da hard bop drop

word up dawg

Sho nuff. He be gwine bout no mo tens an lebbons

I'm sorry...my Jive is a little rusty..

This thread's about your personal top 3 of Miles Davis. You're welcome to suggest any three recordings you feel to be his best, I'm just not much of a fan of his earlier work. I respect "Birth of the Cool" for historic purposes, obviously, but as far as his '50s quintet recordings with Prestege and his work with Gil Evans are concerned, I find them very boring, for the most part. I don't dislike them, mind you, I just find them too run-of-the-mill to enjoy too much, but to each their own.

I consider the 4 Prestige to be one recording.

Kind of Blue

Miles Smiles


Complete Plugged Nickel would be in my top 3-5 live recordings.

Always bending the rules...

You know it.

how about top 5 and add bitches brew and the birth of cool to seba's list