Miles Ahead: "So What" Variations

Variations in the running time of "So What" on Kind of Blue depend on at least two factors:

1. whether the version has been speed-corrected (in a nutshell, many early masters were sharp because the tape machine on which the studio masters were recorded was slightly slow; this was corrected in the mid-1990s)

2. how rapidly the tune is faded at the end. There is a good deal of variation just on recent issued versions.

Here, for the sake of comparison, are some links to the closing measures of different versions of "So What":

The original CBS/Sony CD version (CBS/Sony 32DP 513, CSCS 5141) (42.6 sec)

Columbia's gold Mastersound version (CK 52861) (36.5 sec)

Sony Japan's Mastersound version (Sony SRCS 9104) (36.6 sec)

Columbia Legacy remastered version (CK 64935) (51.2 sec)

From the boxed set of the Davis-Coltrane recordings (C6K 65833) (51.2 sec)