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Article: KIND OF NEW A HALF-CENTURY AFTER ITS RELEASE, MILES DAVIS'S MASTERPIECE IS STILL THE BEST JAZZ ALBUM AROUND
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- October 15, 2000
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Jazz, an improviser's art, is most purely itself as live
performance. Not that recording hasn't been important to the music.
Jazz and the proc ess of electrical recording are almost exact
contemporaries, and the popularity of each contributed enormously to
the popularity of the other. Once jazz lost its mainstream appeal -
just around the time, in fact, music on rec ords shifted from 78s to
LPs - recordings became all the more important in propagating a music
losing its access to radio and the new, even more influential medium
of television.
Yet there remains a fundamental conflict in jazz between what
happens onstage and what happens in the studio: One is about
contingency, the other about ...