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A newly-assembled collection to commemorate the trumpeter’s upcoming centennial, The Best of Miles Davis offers eight hard-bop performances from Davis’ impressive run with his first great quintet (John Coltrane on tenor sax, pianist Red Garland, bassist PauL Chambers and drummer Philly Joe Jones) in 1955 and 1956. These recordings are all taken from the marathon sessions that yielded five LPs on the Prestige label from 1956 to 1961 that bolstered the quintet’s renown, even after Davis opted for new directions in the early days of his decades-long tenure for Columbia Records. (A Target-exclusive pressing is on aqua blue vinyl with a 5″ x 7″ print of Davis included.)