The Complete In a Silent Way Sessions is a three-disc box set of music recordings by trumpeter Miles Davis. As well as the CDs, it includes essays by Michael Cuscuna and Bob Belden and details of the recording sessions. It is number five in the Legacy series of Miles Davis' Complete Sessions box-sets.
It is notable since it includes several previously unreleased tracks on CD, namely "Splashdown", "The Ghetto Walk" and "Early Minor", plus a longer and different version of "Shhh/Peaceful" and two "In a Silent Way" alternate takes.
- - "Mademoiselle Mabry" and "Frelon Brun" can be found on Filles de Kilimanjaro
- - "Two Faced" and "Dual Mr. Anthony Tillmon Williams Process" on Water Babies
- - "Splash" on Circle in the Round
- - "Ascent", "Directions, I" and "Directions, II" on Directions
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