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Miles Davis: Complete Columbia Recordings #3, 1955-'60, with John Coltrane

Clinton Walker, HQ, 2000

IN 1955 WHEN John Coltrane replaced Sonny Rollins in the new quintet Miles Davis was getting together, jazz was at a turning point – and in so many ways it would turn on this very band. Certainly, the names Miles and Trane must now be the two biggest, most deified in all modern jazz.

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