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Miles Davis Quintet: Live In Europe 1967 - The Bootleg Series Vol. 1
by Doug Collette
The Miles Davis Quintet Live In Europe 1967: The Bootleg Series Vol. 1Legacy Recordings2011 With the compact disc in its waning stages of dominance as a medium for music, The Miles Davis Quintet: Live In Europe 1967--The Bootleg Series Vol. 1 restates the case for the archiving as a means of historical as well as collecting purposes. The rare sources of these recordings, most from radio and television broadcasts, don't preclude ...
read moreMiles Davis: The Legendary Prestige Quintet Sessions
by George Kanzler
The Miles Davis Quintet The Legendary Prestige Quintet Sessions Prestige Records 2006 (1955-56)
Miles (aka The New Miles Davis Quintet), Workin', Relaxin', Steamin' and Cookin' were the titles of the original Miles Davis Quintet LPs for Prestige that make up the first three (of four) CDs of this yet-again repackaging of what have become among the most familiar sides of Davis' recorded oeuvre. (The other studio album by this band was 'Round About Midnight ...
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by Doug Collette
The Miles Davis Quintet The Legendary Prestige Quintet Sessions Prestige Records 2006 (1955-56)
Adorned by a painting rendered by the man with the horn himself, the elegant understatement of the packaging of The Legendary Prestige Quintet Sessions is wholly in line with the music it contains. The four-CD set--the latest chapter in the seemingly endless, but well justified, series of homages to Miles Davis--captures the entire output of Davis' mid ...
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by C. Michael Bailey
The Miles Davis Quintet The Legendary Prestige Quintet Sessions Prestige Records 2006 (1955-56)
The noted Irish-American author Thomas Cahill has written a series of books called “The Hinges of History" where, instead of concentrating on war, outrage, and catastrophe, the author illuminates stories of grace, great gift-givers and the evolution of our human sensibility. Cahill brings to life those personalities who had the greatest impact on who we are.
In the realm ...
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