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  • And a beautiful aria, with a freebop interlude by Wallace.

    Painting Music - Top 10 Albums 2009

  • From the later freebop phase when Wayne Shorter joined the group that was above with Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter and Tony Williams, the best quintet ever except for .....

    Painting Music - Top 10 Albums 2009

  • In spring 1968, the quintet and Benson quietly slipped this revealing track into the otherwise freebop setting that had produced such classic mid-period Davis albums as ESP and Sorcerer.

    Great moments in jazz: How Miles Davis plugged in and transformed jazz...all over again 2010

  • Dylan Ryan and his freebop ride cymbal with the intricate arrangements of Herculaneum.

    News 2012

  • A bluesy piano riff rocked below flat-out ­strumming, Soul Search revealed that Metheny the composer retained his ­lilting country-ballad knack, and he playfully made the massed percussion chase his melody line on a freebop-ish Ornette Coleman twister.

    Culture | guardian.co.uk John Fordham 2010

  • A bluesy piano riff rocked below flat-out ­strumming, Soul Search revealed that Metheny the composer retained his ­lilting country-ballad knack, and he playfully made the massed percussion chase his melody line on a freebop-ish Ornette Coleman twister.

    Music news, reviews, comment and features | guardian.co.uk John Fordham 2010

  • "jazz" by Watcher "listener" Customer tags: miles davis (3), freebop, herbie hancock, jazz, import cd, hip hop, jazz fusion, miles davis quintet

    We Blog A Lot 2009

  • "And for the record, I was not referring to cool jazz but to the whole arc of hard pop, modal, avant garde, and freebop.

    One Cʘsmos 2010

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