"Ghetto Walk" hints at the tougher pastures of Bitches Brew and contains some fine Wayne Shorter soprano, though at 26 minutes it's a bit of a long haul; Joe Chamber's drumming doesn't quite achieve the kind of (James) Brownian motion Miles was striving for either and the track eventually drives itself into the ground. "Early Minor" is a lost gem, however; one of Zawinul's trademark tone poems (originally covered by Nat Adderley); Miles etches fragments of melody out of Herbie Hancock and Zawinul's bubbling, limpid chords. Beautiful, and the lavish packaging (stuffed with interviews and recording details) make this indispensable for the committed Miles fan. -- Peter Marsh For those, like myself, who didn't know the patchwork albums "Water Babies" or "Directions", there is much to discover here. My attention was caught by "Two-Faced", a long piece which stands right on the fault line between the quintet's jazz and the dawning electric music. Not only because it uses electric keyboards, but also because the music is floating gently, instead of stretching into several directions as it did with the quintet. This nocturnal, chilled ambiance, laid in November 68, truly announces "In a Silent Way" of 3 months later. As to these actual "In a silent Way" sessions, which really take less than half of this package, they reveal how much editing Teo Macero had to do to take the desired substance out of the sessions. Indeed, the opening "Shh/Peaceful" would never have had the impact it did if the session