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1-1	Morpheus	2:20
1-2	Down	2:50
1-3	Blue Room (Take 1)	2:47
1-4	Blue Room (Take 2)	3:00
1-5	Whispering	3:02
1-6	I Know	2:29
1-7	Odjenar	2:50
1-8	Ezz-thetic	2:51
1-9	Hibeck	3:04
1-10	Yesterdays	2:23
1-11	Conception	4:00
1-12	Out Of The Blue	6:13
1-13	Denial	5:37
1-14	Bluing	9:53
1-15	Dig	7:31
1-16	My Old Flame	6:32
1-17	It's Only A Paper Moon	5:22
2-1	Compulsion	5:42
2-2	The Serpent's Tooth (Take 1)	6:58
2-3	The Serpent's Tooth (Take 2)	6:15
2-4	'Round Midnight	7:03
2-5	Tasty Pudding	3:19
2-6	Willie The Wailer	4:25
2-7	Floppy	5:59
2-8	For Adults Only	5:33
2-9	When Lights Are Low	3:24
2-10	Tune Up	3:51
2-11	Miles Ahead	4:26
2-12	Smooch	3:03
2-13	Four	3:59
2-14	Old Devil Moon	3:21
2-15	Blue Haze	6:05
3-1	Solar	4:40
3-2	You Don't Know What Love Is	4:20
3-3	Love Me Or Leave Me	6:54
3-4	I'll Remember April Tenor Saxophone – Lucky ThompsonTrombone – J.J. Johnson	7:50
3-5	Blue 'N' Boogie Tenor Saxophone – Lucky ThompsonTrombone – J.J. Johnson	8:14
3-6	Walkin'	13:24
3-7	Airegin	4:56
3-8	Oleo	5:09
3-9	But Not For Me (Take 1)	5:40
3-10	But Not For Me (Take 2)	4:33
3-11	Doxy	4:50
4-1	Bags' Groove (Take 1)	11:11
4-2	Bags' Groove (Take 2)	9:20
4-3	Bemsha Swing	9:26
4-4	Swing Spring	10:41
4-5	The Man I Love (Take 1, No Chatter)	8:04
4-6	The Man I Love (Take 2)	7:55
4-7	I Didn't	6:00
4-8	Will You Still Be Mine?	6:18
5-1	Green Haze	5:47
5-2	I See Your Face Before Me	4:42
5-3	A Night In Tunisia	7:18
5-4	A Gal In Calico	5:13
5-5	Dr. Jackle	8:50
5-6	Bitty Ditty	6:34
5-7	Minor March	8:13
5-8	Changes	7:09
5-9	In Your Own Sweet Way	4:33
5-10	No Line	5:37
5-11	Vierd Blues	6:50
6-1	Stablemates	5:18
6-2	How Am I To Know?	4:36
6-3	Just Squeeze Me (But Don't Tease Me)	7:24
6-4	There Is No Greater Love	5:16
6-5	The Theme	5:46
6-6	S'posin'	5:12
6-7	In Your Own Sweet Way	5:41
6-8	Diane	7:46
6-9	Trane's Blues	8:25
6-10	Something I Dreamed Last Night	6:12
7-1	It Could Happen To You (With Closing Chatter)	6:36
7-2	Woody 'N' You	5:00
7-3	Ahmad's Blues	7:19
7-4	Surrey With The Fringe On Top	9:02
7-5	It Never Entered My Mind	5:20
7-6	When I Fall In Love	4:20
7-7	Salt Peanuts	6:05
7-8	Four	7:10
7-9	The Theme (Take 1)	1:57
7-10	The Theme (Take 2)	1:02
7-11	If I Were A Bell (No Chatter)	8:06
7-12	Well, You Needn't	6:15
8-1	'Round Midnight	5:18
8-2	Half Nelson	4:43
8-3	You're My Everything (No False Start)	4:46
8-4	I Could Write A Book	5:06
8-5	Oleo	5:51
8-6	Airegin	4:23
8-7	Tune Up	5:40
8-8	When Lights Are Low	7:27
8-9	Blues By Five	9:55
8-10	My Funny Valetine	5:58

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Credits

• Alto Saxophone – Davey Schildkraut (tracks: 3-1 to 3-4), Jackie Mclean (tracks: 1-11 to 1-17, 5-5 to 5-8), Lee Konitz (tracks: 1-7 to 1-10)
• Bass – Arnold Fishkin (tracks: 1-7 to 1-10), Charles Mingus (tracks: 2-9 to 2-12), Leonard Gaskin (tracks: 2-5 to 2-8), Oscar Pettiford (tracks: 4-7, 4-8, 5-1 to 5-4), Paul Chambers (tracks: 5-9 to 5-11, 6-1 to 6-10, 7-1 to 7-12, 8-1 to 8-10), Percy Heath (tracks: 1-1 to 1-6, 2-1 to 2-4, 2-9 to 2-15, 3-1 to 4-6, 5-5 to 5-8), Tommy Potter (tracks: 1-11 to 1-17)
• Drums – "Philly" Joe Jones (tracks: 2-1 to 2-4, 4-7 to 5-4, 6-1 to 8-10), Art Blakey (tracks: 1-11 to 1-17, 2-13 to 2-15), Art Taylor (tracks: 5-5 to 5-11), Kenny Clarke (tracks: 2-5 to 2-8, 3-1 to 4-6), Max Roach (tracks: 1-7 to 1-10, 2-9 to 2-12), Roy Haynes (tracks: 1-1 to 1-6)
• Guitar – Billy Bauer (tracks: 1-7 to 1-10)
• Piano – Horace Silver (tracks: 2-13 to 3-11), John Lewis (tracks: 1-1 to 1-5, 2-5 to 2-12), Ray Bryant (tracks: 5-5 to 5-8), Red Garland (tracks: 4-7 to 5-4, 6-1 to 8-10), Sal Mosca (tracks: 1-7 to 1-10), Thelonious Monk (tracks: 4-1 to 4-6), Tommy Flanagan (tracks: 5-9 to 5-11), Walter Bishop, Jr. (tracks: 1-11 to 2-4)
• Producer – Orrin Keepnews
• Tenor Saxophone – Al Cohn (tracks: 2-5 to 2-8), Charlie Parker (tracks: 2-1 to 2-4), John Coltrane (tracks: 6-1 to 8-10), Sonny Rollins (tracks: 1-1 to 1-6, 1-11 to 2-4, 3-7 to 3-11, 5-9 to 5-11), Zoot Sims (tracks: 2-5 to 2-8)
• Trombone – Bennie Green (tracks: 1-1 to 1-5), Sonny Truitt (tracks: 2-5 to 2-8)
• Trumpet – Miles Davis
• Vibraphone – Milt Jackson (tracks: 4-1 to 4-6, 5-5 to 5-8)

Notes

This CD compilation presents, on 8 discs, 17 recording sessions made between 1951 and late 1956 by the extraordinary trumpeter, leader, composer, and perpetual catalyst–Miles Davis.

This package also contains a 24-page illustrated booklet that includes rare photographs, full discographical details, and an extensive essay as well as a detailed analysis of each session by Dan Morgenstern, Director of the Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers University.

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
P-012	Miles Davis	Chronicle: The Complete Prestige Recordings ‎(12xLP, Album + Box, Comp, Ltd, Num)	Prestige	P-012	US	1980
7234230	Miles Davis	Chronicle: The Complete Prestige Recordings 1951–1956 ‎(8xCD, Comp, RE + Box)	Universal Music	7234230	Europe	2014
PCD-012-2	Miles Davis	Chronicle: The Complete Prestige Recordings 1951–1956 ‎(8xCD, Comp + Box, RE)	Prestige	PCD-012-2	US	1987
P-0120	Miles Davis	Chronicle: The Complete Prestige Recordings ‎(12xLP, Comp + Box, Ltd)	Prestige	P-0120	Japan	1980
8PCD-012-2	Miles Davis	Chronicle: The Complete Prestige Recordings 1951–1956 ‎(8xCD, Comp, RE + Box)	Prestige	8PCD-012-2	US	1992