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‘Trane

by Rachel Cantrell on August 24, 2009

So now that we’ve talked about Miles Davis and Red Garland, let’s move on to the next member of the Miles Davis Quintet: John Coltrane. Like Miles Davis, one of Coltrane’s biggest influences was Charlie Parker (he says the first time he heard him play “hit [him] right between the eyes”). Coltrane’s career pretty much [...]

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Miles Davis

by Rachel Cantrell on August 1, 2009

If I were to make an attempt at describing Miles Davis’s sound, it would probably take me ages to even think of the right words. So we’re probably better off with Miles’s description of his own sound: “I prefer a round sound with no attitude in it, like a round voice with not too much tremolo [...]

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