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Clawing at the limits of cool

Miles Davis, John Coltrane and the greatest jazz collaboration ever

By Griffin, Farah Jasmine & Washington, Salim

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"... focus[es] on Davis and Coltrane s musical interaction and its historical context, on the ways they influenced each other and the ...impact they ve had on culture since then. It chronicles ...their collaboration, from their initial historic partnership to the interlude of their breakup... And it continues with the last leg of their journey together, a time when the Miles Davis group, featuring John Coltrane, forever changed the landscape of jazz."--from publisher description.

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ISBN
978-0-31232-785-9
Publisher
New York : St. Martin's Press/Thomas Dunne Books, c2008.


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Reviewed on June 1, 2008

Griffin (English, Columbia Univ.; If You Can't Be Free, Be a Mystery: In Search of Billie Holiday) and saxophonist and jazz educator Washington examine two giants of modern jazz, Miles Davis and John Coltrane, both from a musical and a historical/social perspective. The authors' division of labor sometimes causes a slight disruption of the chronology so that time periods and recordings that are addressed in terms of African Am...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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