MILES DAVIS / MILES SMILES (ORIGINAL MASTER RECORDING)

Miles Davis – Miles Smiles (Mobile Fidelity 180g 33RPM SuperVinyl Numbered Edition)

A cornerstone of modern jazz, Miles Smiles (1967) captures Miles Davis’ Second Great Quintet—Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, and Tony Williams—at the height of their telepathic interplay. The album marked the beginning of Davis’ modal masterpiece run, breaking from rigid chord structures to embrace open, melodic exploration that forever changed the shape of jazz.

Sourced from the original master tapes and pressed on MoFi SuperVinyl, Mobile Fidelity’s numbered-edition 180g LP reveals the record’s full emotional and sonic depth. Every nuance of Davis’ muted trumpet, Shorter’s searching saxophone, Hancock’s impressionistic keys, and Williams’ propulsive drumming emerges with jaw-dropping realism and presence. The noise floor is vanishingly low, letting Columbia’s 30th Street Studio ambience breathe like never before.

Explosive, lyrical, and alive with creative tension, Miles Smiles remains one of the most vital and fearless statements in jazz—now presented in reference-grade fidelity worthy of its revolutionary spirit.