by Laurent • 13 June 2012 • Non classé
In 1959, when Whitney Balliett, the New Yorker‘s jazz critic, published a collection of his columns, he titled the book The Sound of Surprise. The promise of the unexpected, wrote Balliett, was jazz’s most precious quality. In a year which went on to include the release of trumpeter Miles Davis‘ Kind of Blue (Columbia), saxophonist John Coltrane‘s Giant Steps(Atlantic), pianist Dave Brubeck‘s Time...
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