This fantastic footage shows Miles Davis – jazz' greatest and most-recognizable face – at a very particular moment in his career. Journalists and writers like to split his musical life up into different segments, with each one representing what is essentially a new era in the direction of American music: The Bebop Years, The Birth of Cool, Hard Bop, The First Quintet (alongside John Coltrane), Kind of Blue, The Second Quintet (with Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter and Tony Williams) ... it is the most impressive résumé in jazz. Yet, at this point, in 1969, Miles was leading the so-called "Lost Quintet," named because this particular formation only performed together, never setting down their sound in a studio.
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