1. E.S.P.

2. Eighty-One

3. Little One

4. R.J.

5. Agitation

6. Iris

7. Mood

 

A few years after the end of his legendary first quintet with John Coltrane, Red Garland, Paul Chambers and Philly Joe Jones, Davis assembled a new band in 1963 and 1964. The star-studded “second Miles Davis quintet,” featuring Wayne Shorter on saxophone, Herbie Hancock on piano, Ron Carter on bass and Tony Williams on drums, is now regarded as one of the finest formations in the entire history of jazz. With its first album, E.S.P., the quintet released another milestone in Miles Davis’ extensive musical legacy in 1965.

E.S.P. shaped the jazz music of the years that followed and bridges the gap between accessible hard bop and the improvised, innovative approaches that Davis increasingly pursued. Unlike earlier albums, E.S.P. included neither standards nor older Davis compositions, but exclusively new works written by the musicians involved, which the quintet recorded with perfect improvisational interplay and at the same time with the highest degree of cohesion and individual expression.

Newly remastered for Mobile Fidelity by Krieg Wunderlich and Rob LoVerde and pressed at RTI, E.S.P. is released as a 180g vinyl 45 RPM double LP in a limited edition with sequential serial numbering.