Circle in the Round
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| Compilation album by Miles Davis | ||||
| Released | November 1979 | |||
| Recorded | October 27, 1955 – January 27, 1970 | |||
| Length | 98:25 | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
| Producer | Joe McEwen and Jim Fishel | |||
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| AllMusic |   |
| Christgau's Record Guide | B+ |
| Down Beat (1982) | |
| Down Beat (1991) |  |
| Encyclopedia of Popular Music | |
| Q | |
| The Rolling Stone Album Guide | |
Circle in the Round is a 1979 compilation album by jazz musician Miles Davis. It compiled outtakes from sessions across fifteen years of Davis's career that, with one exception, had been previously unreleased. All of its tracks have since been made available on album reissues and posthumous box sets.
"Two Bass Hit" is from a 1955 session. A 1958 re-recording was released on Milestones. "Love for Sale", previously released on a 1974 Japanese compilation, features the same lineup that would play on most of Kind of Blue. "Blues No. 2" comes from the last session that Davis and John Coltrane would record together in 1961, although Coltrane does not play on the track.
"Circle in the Round" is the first studio recording in which he departed from the acoustic quintet, and therefore marks the inception of his "electric" period. Recorded in 1967, it was the earliest released recording of Miles that featured the sound of the electric guitar (played by Joe Beck), something that would become prominent in his music over the years. Edited here by seven minutes, the full track was released on The Complete Studio Recordings of The Miles Davis Quintet 1965–1968. The first officially released Davis track with electric guitar was "Paraphernalia", from 1968's Miles in the Sky, with George Benson contributing. Benson appears here on the second take of "Side Car" and "Sanctuary".
"Teo's Bag", "Side Car" (both takes are released), "Splash", and "Sanctuary" come from two sessions in early 1968. "Splash" was later released on The Complete In a Silent Way Sessions, and a re-recording of "Sanctuary" in August 1969 would be the closing track on Bitches Brew.
"Guinnevere" is from the same "electric" sessions of early 1970, with sitar and tabla, which yielded "Great Expectations", "Orange Lady" and "Lonely Fire" (released on Big Fun). Like the title track, it was released here in abbreviated form, as on The Complete Bitches Brew Sessions, the track is three minutes longer.
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