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by topogios 3556 days ago
Anyone know of a reference for "The keyboardist Joe Zawinul was aghast at Davis’s ruthless arrangement of “In a Silent Way,”... " part?

It is difficult to prove a statement like "..he pioneered hard bop.." wrong, but it is definitely a new view on the history of jazz in the post bop era.

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Anyone know of a reference for "The keyboardist Joe Zawinul was aghast at Davis’s ruthless arrangement of “In a Silent Way,”... " part?

NYRB might be sharpening the rhetoric a bit, but there's a good interview with the personnel where they go over this:

http://www.miles-beyond.com/iaswbitchesbrew.htm ('bout halfway down the page)