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The Miles Davis quintet of the mid-to-late 1960s occupies a weird place in the trumpeter’s canon. Critics (this one included) will tell you that it isn’t just the best band Miles ever led, but one of the choicest small groups in jazz history. If you’re not a jazz nerd, though, you may not know it existed. This is because the outfit– rounded out by tenor saxist Wayne Shorter, pianist Herbie Hancock, bassist Ron Carter, and drummer Tony Williams– doesn’t register on Miles’ pop-cultural timeline. The group issued a string of brilliant studio LPs during its 1965-68 run, yet there’s no Kind of Blue or Bitches Brew among them; by this period, Miles had pushed way beyond the sumptuously chilled-out sound of the former but hadn’t arrived at the murky psych-jazz of the latter.
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