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What Miles Davis album did John Coltrane play on?

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Coltrane can be heard playing tenor sax on DavisÕs famous Columbia album Kind of Blue, a work that hints of the direction Coltrane would ultimately follow. Strickland writes of the period: ÒColtraneÕs attempt Ôto explore all the avenuesÕ made him the perfect stylistic complement to Davis, with his cooler style, which featured sustained blue notes and brief cascades of sixteenths almost willfully retreating into silence, and also Monk, with his spare and unpredictable chords and clusters. Davis, characteristically, paid the tersest homage, when, on being told that his music was so complex that it required five saxophonists, he replied that heÕd once had Coltrane.Ó ...

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