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Colin Towns: Electric Period of Miles Davis| CD review

(In and Out)It's hard to move for Miles Davis tributes these days (former Miles bassist and late-career inspiration Marcus Miller is doing it on Sunday's London jazz festival finale), but it's also hard to think of many better-qualified contenders for a big-band version than the British jazz and film composer Colin Towns. This live show with the Frankfurt Radio Big Band takes a broad sweep across Davis's electric and funk-powered music from the late 1960s to the 80s, with reworkings of classics ...

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21:33 on November 19 2009

Colin Towns: Electric Period of Miles Davis| CD review

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