On the Corner (take 3)
45 rpm: Columbia 4-45822
12" LP: Columbia KC 31906, Columbia C5K 45000, CBS/Sony SOPN 100, CBS/Sony SOPL 125, CBS/Sony 20AP 1408
CD: Columbia C4K 45000, Columbia C4K 86569, Columbia CK 53579, Columbia CK 63980, Columbia CK7 06239, CBS/Sony 32DP 716, Sony SRCS 5721, CBS/Sony 80DP 5430/3, Sony SICP 5037/40, Sony SRCS 9125, Sony SRCS 9719, Sony SRGS 4539, Sony SICP 840, Sony SICP 1227, Sony SICP 1581/6

On the Corner (take 4)
CD: Columbia CK7 06239, Sony SICP 1581/6

The original LP version of "On the Corner" includes a brief beginning and ending passage and additional percussion overdubs. The opening passage includes a fragment (approximately 0:44-1:16 of the unedited master or 1:13-1:45 of the issued version) with saxophone and keyboard tracks turned off. Thanks to Sean Wilkie for alerting me to this.

The four sections identified on the sleeve -- "On the Corner" (2:58) - "New York Girl" (1:29) - "Thinkin' One Thing and Doin' Another" (6:40) - "Vote for Miles" (7:48) -- are variations on a single theme. The "radio spots" were presumably prepared for ads on popular radio, part of Columbia's aggressive advertising campaign to attract young black audiences to this new Miles Davis sound.

Keith Jarrett and Gary Bartz left the Davis Septet in December, and Davis's health problems (hip trouble, gallstone surgery) kept him out of the studio and off the road for much of the first half of 1972. This session was the beginning of another very busy time in Columbia Studios -- at least a dozen sessions from June 1972 until early January 1973.

This was Dave Liebman's first studio session with Davis. He joined the live group in January and remained until late 1974.