It makes good marketing sense to reprise the joint studio work of Davis and his then employee, as a change from all those 1960 European concerts. Kind Of Blue appears rightly as a culmination, followed by the two Coltrane appearances on Someday My Prince Will Come and the TV version of ‘So What’. Most of the Miles-Trane collaboration comes earlier, beginning with the ‘Ah-Leu-Cha’ session for Round About Midnight (and including the extra tracks from those dates, left off the latest reissue reviewed in Jazzwise 192). The two prolific 1956 Prestige sessions, best known as being split into the Cookin'/Relaxin'/Workin'/Steamin' albums, are here – along with slightly more studio chatter than was first released – in all their chronological glory, from ‘In Your Own Sweet Way’ to ‘My Funny Valentine’. (Thank goodness they didn't omit the latter or indeed the two Garland trio tracks, despite Trane's silence.) Though not a studio recording, some 20 minutes of Miles' 1958 Newport set is here, but the missing 18 minutes should have replaced the out-of-context session with Michel Legrand. However, the juxtaposition of all the Prestige stuff with Columbia material such as Milestones and the ‘On Green Dolphin Street’ date underlines the superiority of Rudy Van Gelder's recording, and emphasises even more Miles' bandleading genius and the gradual development of Trane and the rhythm-sections.