“The Complete In a Silent Way Sessions” details a six-month stretch from September 1968 to February 1969 - placing the classic “In A Silent Way” in a historical context by collecting previously released and unreleased material - with a set of players that shifted from being Davis’s second classic quartet to the foundation for the group that recorded “Bitches Brew”.
Hearing this music all in one place, chronologically, it’s easy to see how rock influences start to color, then ultimately dominate, Davis’s sound, but Miles seemed to realize that the groove was all he needed to borrow from rock. “In A Silent Way” is neither jazz nor rock. It isn’t what will eventually become known as fusion, either. It is something altogether different, something universal.


Miles Davis

The Complete In a Silent Way Sessions

(September 1968 - February 1969)





3 CDs / 2004 / Remastered / 320Kbps


CD 1:

1. Mademoiselle Mabry

2. Frelon Brun

3. Two Faced

4. Dual Mr. Anthony Tillmon Williams Process

5. Splash

6. Splashdown [previously unreleased]


CD 2:

1. Ascent

2. Directions I

3. Directions II

4. Shhh/Peaceful [previously unreleased]

5. In A Silent Way (rehearsal) [previously unreleased]

6. In A Silent Way [released for the first time in unedited form]

7. It's About That Time [released for the first time in unedited form]


CD 3:

1. The Ghetto Walk [previously unreleased]

2. Early Minor [previously unreleased]

3. Shhh/Peaceful (Album Version)

4. In A Silent Way/It's About That Time (Album Version)

Recorded on September 24, November 11, 12, 25 & 27, 1968, and February 18 & 20, 1969.


Personnel:

Miles Davis – trumpet

Wayne Shorter – tenor saxophone (CD 1: all), soprano saxophone

John McLaughlin – electric guitar (CD 2: Tracks 4-7; CD 3: all)

Chick Corea – electric piano

Herbie Hancock – electric piano

Joe Zawinul – organ (CD 2; CD 3)

Dave Holland – double bass

Tony Williams – drums

Jack DeJohnette – drums (CD 2: Tracks 1-3)

Joe Chambers – drums (CD 3: Tracks 1 and 2)


Miles Davis / The Complete In a Silent Way Sessions (September 1968 - February 1969)