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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