Image © Don Hunstein. “Columbia” is a trademark owned by Sony Music Entertainment. Photo Illustration by Dylan Utz. From left to right: Bill Evans, Miles Davis, Julian “Cannonball” Adderley, and John Coltrane at the second Kind of Blue session, April 22, 1959. There’s an inherent weight the word timeless brings
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The French Connection: Jazz in Paris, 1957
In November 1957, Miles Davis returned to Paris to play the Club Saint-Germain. Since visiting seven years earlier, Davis had barely finished recording eight songs on tape, accredited to the ‘Miles Davis Nonet’; The nine-piece outfit proved unusual yet effectual in foreshadowing modern sounds in Jazz. With the exhilarating but