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| | Miles Davis - @ Jazz Pipeline .com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | Stylistically, his vast catalogue encompasses bebop, cool jazz, modal jazz and jazz-rock fusion, and he was a pivotal figure in the evolution of the latter three. |
| | His recordings, along with the live performances of his many seminal bands, were vital in jazz's increased artistic acceptance and, as well as an innovator, he was a populariser, with a languid, melodic style that was more readily comprehensible to non-jazz fans than the hard bebop that had preceded it. |
| | Despite the mixed quality of much of his recorded output, live Davis was still capable of moments, and entire concerts, of great inspiration. |
| www.jazzpipeline.com /Jazz_Artists_Biographies/miles_davis.htm (2629 words) |
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