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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instanceOf Miles Davis band
jazz ensemble
activeEnd 1968
activeStart 1964
associatedAct Herbie Hancock Mwandishi band NERFINISHED
Miles Davis First Great Quintet NERFINISHED
VSOP Quintet NERFINISHED
Weather Report NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: 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 NERFINISHED
member Herbie Hancock NERFINISHED
Miles Davis NERFINISHED
Ron Carter NERFINISHED
Tony Williams NERFINISHED
Wayne Shorter NERFINISHED
notableAlbum E.S.P. NERFINISHED
Miles Smiles NERFINISHED
Miles in the Sky NERFINISHED
Nefertiti NERFINISHED
Sorcerer NERFINISHED
notableLiveAlbum The Complete Live at the Plugged Nickel 1965 NERFINISHED
notableTrack Eighty-One NERFINISHED
Footprints NERFINISHED
Freedom Jazz Dance NERFINISHED
Nefertiti NERFINISHED
Riot NERFINISHED
precededBy Miles Davis First Great Quintet NERFINISHED
recordedFor Columbia Records NERFINISHED
recordLabel Columbia Records
styleCharacteristic collective improvisation
harmonic ambiguity
loosely structured forms
rhythmic freedom

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Miles Davis Quintet notableLineup Second Great Quintet