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Incredibly, hardly anyone recognized this until the late '70s, when the quintet's work was adopted as a model by young musicians such as Wynton Marsalis.
He had performed alongside Charlie Parker, led a marvelous quintet with John Coltrane, and collaborated with Gil Evans on such jazz orchestral arrangements as Sketches of Spain and Porgy and Bess . Davis' 1959 sextet recording, Kind of Blue , became, with its haikulike lyricism, synonymous with cool and provided a soundtrack for nearly every party with intellectual pretensions.
In the revolutionary age of free jazz, with its joyful defiance of form and radical embrace of pure sound, the Davis quintet seemed just a bit too polished.
(Galoob is even in the process of hurriedly rushing to market 11 ½-inch Spice Girls dolls, hoping to cash in on the frenzy before the British quintet end up in Palookaville.)
The Davis quintet was the rare exception, a luminous example of participatory democracy in jazz.