The 33 tracks of this stunning compilation from the BD Music collection zoom in on the 1949 - 1955 Miles Davis period. The trumpeter, who never stopped innovating jazz throughout his life, rubs shoulders with the masters of be-bop on these recordings, who would gradually steer the genre towards cool bop and later hard bop. Increasingly original (especially from 1954 onwards), the playing of this very young Miles, only twenty years old, leaned towards a form of progressive purity where each soloist had his say. A musical revolution to be savoured by reading Jacques Fernandez's elegant comic strip based on texts by experts Christian Bonnet and Claude Carrière. CM/Qobuz