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The Miles Davis Cellar Door Sessions (6xcd box set!!!!). Legal qualms and The Davis estate have held this up for YEARS, and it looks as if finally everything is ready to go through From P-fork (whichhas some more fun @ Sony's expense vis a vis rootkits): Miles Davis' Cellar Door Sessions to Be Released Zach Vowell reports: One of the many shitty things about this whole Sony rootkit scandal is the justified paranoia that will surround every release from one of the most significant back catalogs of commercial American recordings: Columbia Records. Case in point is the late, great (and utterly defenseless) Miles Davis, a musician whose recordings (released and previously unreleased) Sony loves to reissue just about every year. 2005 will be no exception, as the label has announced that they will release The Cellar Door Sessions 1970 on December 27. The massive six-disc set, which includes a few previously released cuts from Live-Evil, documents a four-night stand Miles spent in Washington, D.C. with an exceptional (even by Davis' standards) backing band of keyboardist Keith Jarrett, percussionist Airto Moreiera, drummer Jack DeJohnette, saxophonist Gary Bartz, and bassist Michael Henderson. DeJohnette's fellow Bitches Brew veteran John McLaughlin made the last night of the stand, and his fusion-forging guitar appears on the last eight tracks of Cellar Door. If, during the set's nearly six hour duration, you find yourself panting for a break, Sony has included several heretofore unpublished photographs of Miles at his most colorful (Steven Tyler owes much of his 80s look to Davis' feather-thin hankies), and essays written by each of the six sidemen about those pivotal four nights. Just don't try to scan the photos or the essays. The ink might encode some type of anti-Photoshop malware in your operating system. Tainted traxx: December 16, 1970: 01 Directions 02 Yesternow 03 What I Say 04 Improvisation #1 05 Inamorata December 17, 1970: 06 What I Say 07 Honky Tonk 08 It's About Time 09 Improvisation #2 10 Inamorata 11 Sanctuary December 18, 1970: 12 Directions 13 Honky Tonk 14 What I Say 15 Directions 16 Honky Tonk 17 What I Say 18 Sanctuary 19 Improvisation #3 20 Inamorata December 19, 1970: 21 Directions 22 Honky Tonk 23 What I Say 24 Directions 25 Improvisation #4 26 Inamorata 27 Sanctuary 28 It's About Time