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Where to start with Miles Davis

Start with Circle in the Round — Circle in the Round, 1979. That is the track sitting closest to the centre of all 39 Miles Davis tracks in Zubissou Sounds — a listening room of 15,847 tracks placed one at a time by hand, not an algorithm.

This page is not a discography and not a ranking. It describes exactly one thing: the 39 Miles Davis tracks that one person put in one room, and where they sit relative to each other. The starting point above is chosen by a rule you can check — of the 39 tracks, it is the one nearest the average position on the four knobs the room runs on. Nothing here calls any record better than any other.

It is spread thin and wide — 39 tracks across 30 different records, which is a browsing history rather than a shelf of favourites.

The dates here run from 1957 to 2025. They are the dates attached to the releases in this room rather than recording dates, so the later ones are likely reissues — but 68 years is still more than one version of the artist.

The tracks are filed across 5 genres, most often jazz, jazz fusion and eclectic, so the room does not treat this as a single-shelf artist.

The energy knob swings 64 points across these tracks, the widest of the four — it is the axis this artist actually travels along in this room.

Three ways in

The one track, if you only play one

Circle in the Round — Circle in the Round, 1979. Of the 38 Miles Davis tracks here that have actually been listened to, this one sits closest to the average of them across the four knobs the room runs on. The other 1 arrived carrying the default for their genre, and averaging a placeholder in would move the centre towards nothing. It is the least surprising thing among the tracks that were read, which is what an entry point should be.

If you want the ambient end

Blue In Green — Kind of Blue, 1959. The lowest energy reading of any Miles Davis track in the room (18 out of 100). This is as far towards ambient as the collection goes.

If you want the driving end

On The Corner/New York Girl/Thinkin’ One Thing and Doin’ Another/Vote For Miles — On The Corner, 1972. The highest energy reading here, at 82 out of 100 — a 64-point swing across the collection towards driving.

Where Miles Davis sits in the room

Zubissou Sounds does not have playlists or genres you click. It has knobs. Every track carries a position on each one, set by hand when the track was added, and you find music by setting the room to a state rather than by searching for a name. These are Miles Davis's average coordinates and the range they cover.

All four run 0–100. They are placed by a person, not derived from audio analysis or from any streaming service's feature data.

What is here, record by record

Every Miles Davis track in the room

Near neighbours in this room

These are the artists whose average knob position sits nearest to Miles Davis's in this room. It is a coordinate match, not a claim that they sound alike.

• Where to start with Herbie Hancock — jazz, 16 tracks
• Where to start with Sun Ra — jazz, 53 tracks
• Where to start with Jack DeJohnette — jazz, 10 tracks

What the open databases say

MusicBrainz lists Miles Davis as a solo artist, from the United States and born in 1926. Its contributors tag the artist rock, classical, jazz, funk and fusion. These are the open database's facts, not mine — you can check them against the MusicBrainz entry.

Questions

How many Miles Davis tracks are in Zubissou Sounds?

There are 39, across 30 albums. 38 of them carry a date, running from 1957 to 2025. That is the whole of what this room holds — it is one person's collection, not a discography.

Is this a best-of, or a ranking?

No. Nothing here is ranked and no track is called better than another. The starting point is picked by arithmetic — the track closest to the centre of all the others on four measured axes — and the rule is printed above so you can disagree with it.

Where do the knob numbers come from?

They are set by hand, one track at a time, by the person who added the track. They are not audio analysis and not a Spotify feature. Mood, energy, density and the head/body balance each run 0 to 100. 38 of these 39 tracks have been read that way. The other 1 arrived with the default for their genre and nobody has listened to them yet, so they are left out of the centre, the ends and the spread quoted above.

Can I listen to these here?

Not yet from this page. Zubissou Sounds is in private beta — the room itself plays through Spotify, and 39 of these 39 tracks are matched to a Spotify ID and ready to play the moment you are in. The waitlist form is at the bottom of this page.