{"id":11814,"date":"2025-12-18T11:53:50","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T17:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/postgenre.org\/staging\/4567\/?p=11814"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:40:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T17:40:04","slug":"cellar-door-sessions-at-fifty-five-night-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postgenre.org\/staging\/4567\/cellar-door-sessions-at-fifty-five-night-one\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cellar Door Sessions at Fifty-Five: December 16, 1970"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Before diving in, a note on inspiration. This project is the child of a small-scale obsession. Last fall, I moved my collection of five thousand, six hundred and sixty-four CDs across town to a new home. I like to file them alphabetically by artist and then chronologically within each artist. Seventy-one of these are by Miles Davis; in all formats, he is the artist most represented in the collection. Fellow OCDers will appreciate the urgency. While arranging the Miles shelf last week, I noticed the recording dates of the Cellar Door Sessions 1970 (Columbia, 2005). I have a bit of history with this set, which some readers might find helpful to clarify. In the early aughts, I contributed to the late, lamented zine Signal To Noise and claimed this set for a review. Pete Gershon, my editor, sent me the six advance CDs\u2014no booklet, no release that I can recall. Before I could file my review, Pete told me that Columbia Records had put the release on hold, and this is the part I need help with. Does anyone recall this delay, or was it only known to recipients of the set? I never filed the review, and because of a change in my financial circumstances, never bought the Columbia box when it was eventually released in 2005. Though I eventually obtained the booklet when a kind obsessive on Reddit sent me image files\u2014sixty of them. Whoever you are, thank you! Now on to the music. Thanks to Ethan Iverson, whose format for his deep dive into the recordings of Keith Jarrett\u2019s American Quartet<\/a> I scraped for this.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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