Miles Davis Quintet: Swiss Radio Days – review

(TCB)Davis completed recording the most celebrated jazz album in history, the revolutionary Kind of Blue, in April 1959. It changed the way jazz would be played and heard from then on. He was still working through its implications a year later, when this live recording was made on tour in Zurich. With him was John Coltrane, also exploring the new ideas, but coming up with very different results. A few weeks later, they went their separate ways. You can hear the drama of a turning point in jazz h...

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