| Beautiful Ballads & Love Songs | ||||
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| Released | January 15, 2008 | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 68:46 | |||
| Label | Columbia/Legacy | |||
| Producer | George Avakian, Miles Davis, Robert Irving III, Cal Lampley, Teo Macero, Richard Seidel, Irving Townsend | |||
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Beautiful Ballads & Love Songs is a compilation album by American jazz musician Miles Davis that was released on January 15, 2008, by Columbia Records. [2]
| Chart | Peak chart position |
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| Billboard Top Jazz Albums [3] | 48 |
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