With Columbia, Miles couldn't have started better. So many classics and jazz standards (Porter, Bird, Gillespie, of course Monk, even the very Davis of the "Birth of the Cool" era) wonderfully reinterpreted by his trumpet and backed by a quartet of extraordinary musicians, Jones, Chambers, Garland, and a magnificent Coltrane. The version of 'Round Midnight by Monk included here is of a moving beauty. Perfect album. Masterpiece. What a quintet.
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