It's a curious irony that at a time when entire music collections can be shrunk down to the size of a couple of sticks of gum, certain music packages keep getting larger.
Hot on the heels of the much-celebrated remastered Beatles sets, Sony Legacy is releasing “Miles Davis: The Complete Columbia Album Collection," a beautiful but somewhat daunting stockpile of 52 albums on more than 70 CDs spanning four decades in the jazz trumpeter's storied and fiercely unpredictable career.
With each album bound in mini-LP sleeves and packed into a dense brick of music slightly smaller than a shoebox, this set is the mother lode for Miles Davis completists.
Although most of Davis' works already have been reissued the iconic “Kind of Blue," for instance, was released in a lush anniversary package last year this marks the first occasion that crisply remastered editions of titles such as the mind-bending double-album live recordings “Agharta" and “Pangaea" have been available in the U.S.
