The "Second Quintet" -- the Miles Davis Quintet of the mid-1960s -- was one of the most innovative and influential groups in the history of the genre. Each of t

Ce coffret livre présente un groupe composé de cinq innovateurs : le trompettiste Miles Davis, le saxophoniste Wayne Shorter, le claviériste Herbie Hancock,

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Presents an in-depth exploration of the musician's controversial electric period and the impact it had on the jazz community, as drawn from firsthand recollecti

It was 1969, and Miles Davis, prince of cool, was on the edge of being left behind by a dynamic generation of young musicians, an important handful of whom had