The Complete On the Corner Sessions
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| Box set by Miles Davis | ||||
| Released | October 2, 2007 | |||
| Recorded | June 1972 – May 1975; March 9, 1972; June 1, 1972; June 6, 1972; June 12, 1972; August 23, 1972; September 6, 1972; December 8, 1972; January 4, 1973; July 26, 1973; September 17, 1973; September 18, 1973; June 19, 1974; October 7, 1974; November 6, 1974; May 5, 1975 | |||
| Studio | Columbia Studio E and B, New York City | |||
| Genre | Jazz-funk, fusion | |||
| Length | 407:13 | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
| Producer | Teo Macero | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |  |
| BBC | (favorable) |
| Music Box | |
| Pitchfork Media | (9.2/10) |
| PopMatters | 8/10 |
| Rolling Stone |  |
The Complete On the Corner Sessions is a posthumous box set by American jazz musician Miles Davis, released on October 2, 2007, by Columbia Records. Like other Davis box sets, the included material is taken from a wider chronology of sessions than the dates which actually produced the titular album. The Complete On the Corner Sessions compiles material from 1972 through 1975 which, due to lineup changes Davis made throughout the era, features over two dozen musicians.
Columbia has released a series of ten box sets containing recordings from the 1950s to the 1970s. These contain material not available on other Columbia albums. Following The Complete In a Silent Way Sessions, The Complete Bitches Brew Sessions, The Complete Jack Johnson Sessions, and The Cellar Door Sessions, this release includes the funk/jazz fusion album On the Corner. His band was made up of musicians trained not only in the basics of jazz, but on the newer sounds of James Brown and Sly Stone.
The box set includes more than six hours of music. Twelve of these are previously unissued tracks. Another five tracks are previously unissued in full. They cover sixteen sessions from On the Corner, Big Fun, and Get Up with It until Davis's mid-seventies retirement. Miles is joined in these recordings by Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, John McLaughlin, Jack DeJohnette, Billy Hart, and many others. The 6-CD deluxe edition also contains a 120-page full-color booklet with liner notes and essays by producer Bob Belden, journalist Tom Terrell, and arranger/composer Paul Buckmaster as well as rare photographs and new illustrations.
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