Miles Davis's Miles Ahead: Miles Davis +19 for Columbia is one of jazz's most exquisite orchestral albums. Recorded in May and August of 1957, the LP was arranged by Gil Evans, who, with Davis, selected nine jazz songs plus an Evans-Davis original and dressed them up in a modernist, Thornhillian style.
The result is spectacular. Davis on flugelhorn is g…
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