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The Miles Davis Lost Quintet and Other Revolutionary Ensembles (Hardcover)
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The Miles Davis Lost Quintet and Other Revolutionary Ensembles (Hardcover)
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Miles Davis's Bitches Brew is one of the most iconic albums in
American music, the preeminent landmark and fertile seedbed of
jazz-fusion. Fans have been fortunate in the past few years to gain
access to Davis's live recordings from this time, when he was
working with an ensemble that has come to be known as the Lost
Quintet. In this book, jazz historian and musician Bob Gluck
explores the performances of this revolutionary group-Davis's first
electric band-to illuminate the thinking of one of our rarest
geniuses and, by extension, the extraordinary transition in
American music that he and his fellow players ushered in. Gluck
listens deeply to the uneasy tension between this group's driving
rhythmic groove and the sonic and structural openness, surprise,
and experimentation they were always pushing toward. There he
hears-and outlines-a fascinating web of musical interconnection
that brings Davis's funk-inflected sensibilities into conversation
with the avant-garde worlds that players like Ornette Coleman and
John Coltrane were developing. Going on to analyze the little-known
experimental groups Circle and the Revolutionary Ensemble, Gluck
traces deep resonances across a commercial gap between the
celebrity Miles Davis and his less famous but profoundly innovative
peers. The result is a deeply attuned look at a pivotal moment when
once-disparate worlds of American music came together in
explosively creative combinations.
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