Wayne Shorter / Herbie Hancock / Gary Peacock / Tony Williams - 1965 Set
Lately I've been digging deep into the cataloug of the Second Great Quintet of Miles (both live bootlegs, retail LP:s, stuff like " Times Of The Barracudas " and " Falling Water ", and man what a band that were. While moch of the albums they dropped still remain somewhat of a personal pinnacle of what you could do within a a hard-bop setting without following the rules of the day they cleary stands as one of my absolute favorite bands of all-time. Their interplay was just out of this world from day one, and what's interesting about many of the captured live bootlegs is how a throughout and one-minded machine they were especially between 1965 and late 1967. Much thanks to Europeans who had little hindsight of the public service they did recording all those concerts, and in the case of Sweden often with a sound as great as official live recordings by labels like Riverside and Prestige. But when recording officially for Columbia they where tuy left to th...