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5 records

Speak No Evil

1965

Shorter wrote these while working in Miles Davis's band and said he was thinking about folk tales and misty landscapes with witches.

★ 6.4

1961

Coltrane picked up the soprano saxophone, an instrument almost nobody played then, and stretched a show tune over two chords for thirteen minutes.

★ 6.8

1965

A concept album about the sea, made by Miles Davis's pianist with Davis's rhythm section, and every title refers to water.

★ 6.8

1964

Coltrane recorded it in one December session and meant it as a prayer. On the last movement he plays a psalm he had written out.

★ 9.0

1959

Davis handed the players sketches on the day and most of what you hear is a first take. Two sessions, and it was done.

★ 9.8