The Essential Miles Davis

The Essential Miles Davis
Greatest hits album by
Miles Davis
ReleasedMay 15, 2001
Recorded1945–1986
GenreJazz
Length149:13 (2 disc set)
LabelSony/Columbia/Legacy
ProducerMichael Cuscuna, Bob Belden, Steve Berkowitz and Seth Rothstein for Columbia Legacy label of Sony Entertainment
Miles Davis chronology
Super Hits
(2001) 		The Essential Miles Davis
(2001) 		Live at the Fillmore East, March 7, 1970: It's About That Time
(2001)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings [2]

The Essential Miles Davis is a 2-CD compilation album by Miles Davis released by Columbia Legacy on May 15, 2001. It belongs to Sony Music Entertainment's "The Essential" series, not to the series "Essentials", established by WEA International, and was released as part of Sony's Miles 75 Anniversary program. In 2008, The Essential Miles Davis 3.0 was released as a limited edition album featuring a bonus third disc that added five more songs to the original track list.

  1. ^ Cook, Stephen (2011). "The Essential Miles Davis [Columbia/Legacy] - Miles Davis | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 2 August 2011.
  2. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 352. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.