Bitches Brew, Miles Davis’ groundbreaking double-LP of 1969, whose 40th anniversary will be celebrated with two separate retail packages, both released August 31st, but can be Pre-Ordered now:

• Bitches Brew: Legacy Edition (a three-disc set, comprising two CDs that contain the original 94-plus minutes of music, remixed from the original 8-track master tapes in 1988 by Mark Wilder, plus several bonus cuts; and a DVD that contains a previously unissued concert performance by the Miles Davis Quintet filmed in Copenhagen, November 1969)

Pre-Order Legacy Edition now at Amazon

• Bitches Brew: 40th Anniversary Collector’s Edition (the same three discs as above, plus a third CD comprising a previously unissued performance by the new septet lineup at Tanglewood in the Berkshires, August 1970; alongside a 48-page color booklet and a 180-gram vinyl double-LP gatefold replication of the original album)

Pre-order the Collector’s Edition now.

(At DSPs, consumers will be able to purchase both discs from Bitches Brew: Legacy Edition, but the the DVD will not be available. The same two discs in Collector’s Edition will be available at DSPs but the third audio disc and the DVD will only be available in the physical box set.

A full slate of Columbia/Legacy releases – including Bitches Brew: Legacy Edition, Bitches Brew: 40th Anniversary Collector’s Edition, as well as the mammoth The Genius of Miles Davis collection , Kind of Blue in two separate vinyl LP configurations – along with the gala opening of the “We Want Miles” exhibition in Montreal, the newly redesigned MilesDavis.com website, and Monster Cable’s new “Miles Davis Tribute” headphones are among the key elements in the campaign.