Music video by miles davis performing a new saxophone player John coltrane on tenor saxophone, red garland on piano, paul chambers on bass, and philly joe jones on drums. (c) 2001 columbia records, a division of sony music entertainment.more
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Miles davis made music that grew from an uncanny talent to hear the future and a headstrong desire to play it
From his beginnings in the circle of modern jazz, he came to intuit new worlds of sound and challenge.
No, miles davis played trumpet There are no recordings of miles davis playing saxophone His virtuosity lay in the realm of the trumpet, an instrument he mastered with unparalleled finesse. To saxophone players, it remains so to this day
His son, ravi coltrane, points to his father's legacy as nothing short of transformative. John coltrane’s tenure as the tenor saxophonist in miles davis’s first great quintet remains one of the most important chapters in jazz history His growth, experimentation, and musical conversations with davis helped redefine what modern jazz could be. In the early part of his comeback years, miles’s saxophonists played both soprano and tenor sax, but towards the end of his career, miles went back to the alto sound.
He formed classic small groups in the 1950s that featured saxophone legends john coltrane and cannonball adderley, pianists red garland and bill evans, bassist paul chambers, and drummers “philly” joe jones and jimmy cobb.
At the same time, davis recruited the players for a formation that became known as his “first great quintet”
