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"The biggest challenge in jazz improvisation, Davis observed more than once, is 'not to play all the notes you could play, but to wait, hesitate, let space become part of the configuration.' Crammed with facts yet strangely undermeditated, Szwed's biographical meditation is like a solo with too many notes, intermittently inspired but too cluttered to breathe, and lacking the confidence of a well-honed interpretation.Szwed, John is the author of 'So What The Life of Miles Davis' with ISBN 9780684859828 and ISBN 0684859823.
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