Second Great Quintet

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The Second Great Quintet was Miles Davis’s influential mid-1960s jazz group featuring Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, and Tony Williams, renowned for its innovative, boundary-pushing approach to post-bop.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Miles Davis band
jazz ensemble
activeEnd 1968
activeStart 1964
associatedAct Herbie Hancock Mwandishi band
Miles Davis First Great Quintet
VSOP Quintet
Weather Report
countryOfOrigin United States
criticalReputation one of the most influential small groups in jazz history
era mid-1960s
followedBy Miles Davis electric period bands
genre avant-garde jazz
modal jazz
post-bop
influenced contemporary jazz ensembles
jazz fusion
post-bop jazz
innovation integration of composition and improvisation
use of open forms in small-group jazz
instrumentation double bass
drums
piano
tenor saxophone
trumpet
leader Miles Davis
member Herbie Hancock
Miles Davis
Ron Carter
Tony Williams
Wayne Shorter
notableAlbum E.S.P.
Miles Smiles
Miles in the Sky
Nefertiti
Sorcerer
notableLiveAlbum The Complete Live at the Plugged Nickel 1965
notableTrack Eighty-One
Footprints
Freedom Jazz Dance
Nefertiti
Riot
precededBy Miles Davis First Great Quintet
recordedFor Columbia Records
recordLabel Columbia Records
styleCharacteristic collective improvisation
harmonic ambiguity
loosely structured forms
rhythmic freedom

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Miles Davis Quintet notableLineup Second Great Quintet