Super Hits (Miles Davis album)

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Super Hits
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Greatest hits album by
ReleasedApril 17, 2001
Recorded1956–1985
Genre Jazz
Length48:43
Language Instrumental
Label Sony/Legacy
Producer Teo Macero and Irving Townsend, Teo Macero, Miles Davis and Robert Irving III, Teo Macero and Cal Lampley, Irving Townsend, Gil Evans and Miles Davis, and Miles Davis and Robert Irving III
Compiler Bob Belden
Miles Davis compilations chronology
At Newport 1958
(2001)
Super Hits
(2001)
The Essential Miles Davis
(2001)
Re-release cover
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Super Hits is a greatest hits album from Miles Davis. Released in 2001, it reached #22 on Billboard 's Jazz Albums chart. [2]

Contents

Track listing

  1. "So What" (Davis) – 9:22 (from Kind of Blue )
  2. "Someday My Prince Will Come" (Frank Churchill and Larry Morey) – 9:02 (from Someday My Prince Will Come )
  3. "Time After Time" (Cyndi Lauper and Rob Hyman) – 3:39 (from You're Under Arrest )
  4. "Summertime" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, and DuBose Heyward) – 3:17 (from Porgy and Bess )
  5. "Eighty-One" (Ron Carter and Davis) – 6:21 (from E.S.P. )
  6. "Bye Bye Blackbird" (Ray Henderson) – 7:54 (from 'Round About Midnight )
  7. "New Rhumba" (Ahmad Jamal) – 4:37 (from Miles Ahead )
  8. "Human Nature" (Steve Porcaro and John Bettis) – 4:31 (from You're Under Arrest)

Personnel

"So What"
"Someday My Prince Will Come"
"Time After Time"
"Summertime"
"Eighty-One"
"Bye Bye Blackbird"
"New Rhumba"
"Human Nature"

Release history

RegionDateLabelFormatCatalog
United StatesApril 17, 2001 Sony Compact Disc 85186
Sony Cassette tape 85186
Sbme Special MKTS.CD705375
United States2007 Sony BMG CD705375

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References

  1. Nastos, Michael G. (2011). "Super Hits - Miles Davis | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 2 August 2011.
  2. "Super Hits - Miles Davis". Billboard . Retrieved 2010-10-19.