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Miles Davis & The Modern Jazz Giants / Bags’ Groove
You may get your money’s worth from the first two tracks, which I’ll nominate as the best jazz ever recorded on Christmas Eve. Sure, it’s the same song performed twice back-to-back. But the song is Milt Jackson’s “Bags’ Groove,” featuring Miles Davis backed by most…
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Miles Davis & The Modern Jazz Giants (1959)
This album is the cousin to Bags’ Groove. Like that set, it takes tracks from a couple of different dates from a few years earlier, including a session in common with Thelonious Monk joining Miles and the MJQ’s Milt Jackson (vibraphone), Percy Heath (b),…