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Sunday Open Thread: P.O.U. Sunday Jazz Brunch

July 28, 2013 by pragobots 91 Comments

GOOD MORNING P.O.U.!

As you enjoy your Sunday breakfast/brunch, check out the Miles Davis Quintet‘s 1967 performance in Germany…

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Miles Davis and His ‘Second Great Quintet,’ Filmed Live in Europe, 1967

by Mike Springer| December 15th, 2012

 In the mid 1960s Miles Davis responded to the form-breaking influence of free jazz by surrounding himself with a group of brilliant young musicians and encouraging them to push him in new directions.

The group was Davis’s last with all acoustic instruments, and came to be known as his “second great quintet.” It featured Davis on trumpet, Wayne Shorter on saxophone, Herbie Hancock on piano, Ron Carter on bass and Tony Williams on drums. Between 1964 and 1968 the quintet recorded a string of innovative albums, including E.S.P., Sorcerer and the transitional Miles in the Sky, in which Hancock introduces the electric Fender Rhodes piano.

For Guardian jazz critic John Fordham, the second great quintet was Davis’s best group ever. “Their solos were fresh and original, and their individual styles fused with a spontaneous fluency that was simply astonishing,” writes Fordham in a 2010 article. “The quintet’s method came to be dubbed ‘time, no changes’ because of their emphasis on strong rhythmic grooves without the dictatorial patterns of song-form chords. At times they veered close to free-improvisation, but the pieces were as thrilling and hypnotically sensuous as anything the band’s open-minded leader had recorded before.”

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Filed Under: African Americans, Music, Open Thread Tagged With: Herbie Hancock, Jazz, Miles Davis Quintet, Miles Davis Second Great Quintet, Ron Carter, Tony Williams, Wayne Shorter

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