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MILES DAVIS

Columbia Legacy 19439863841 (3 CD or 2 LP). 2022. Teo Macero, Miles Davis, Michael Cuscuna, Richard Seidel, Steve Berkowitz, prods.; Mark Wilder, eng.

Davis, bass; many others

After pausing in 2018, Columbia Legacy has again reached into the Miles Davis vaults to issue this 3-CD box set, released alongside a hi-rez digital package with the same material and a 2-LP “highlights from” pressing, covering the years 1982–85. During this period, Miles released the final three albums (1983), (1984), and (1985). This period and this trio followed Miles’s well-documented early retirement, a period during which he did not perform or record, which ran from 1975 through 1980.

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