Directions” is a double album that features previously unreleased outtakes recorded over a10-year period by Miles Davis. Apart from Song of Our Country” from the recording sessionsfor Sketches of Spain (1960), a 1961 recording of ’Round Midnight”, and So Near, So Far” from1963, the album’s songs are from Davis’ transitional period during 1967 to 1970, when he wasexperimenting with a fusion of jazz and rock. They feature sidemen such as saxophonist WayneShorter, guitarist John McLaughlin, and keyboardists Herbie Hancock, Joe Zawinul, and ChickCorea.