Der Einfluss des Free Jazz auf die Musik von Miles Davis
When Free Jazz was established as a new style in 1958/59, Miles Davis released his music from chord progressions and set up the style of Modal Playing. In his Quintet from 1964 to 1968 we find some tendencies to free musical forms, more tonal outgoing playing (by Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock) and partially free rhythms in the drumming of Tony Williams. These tendencies lead to more free influences in the Miles Davis Quintet around 1969 when the new rhythm section consisting of Chic Corea, Dave Holland and Jack DeJohnette formed a mini Free Jazz band within this group. Their free collective playing and especially Chic Corea influenced the whole ensemble and also the playing of Davis in the direction of Free Jazz. This development continued in the live concerts of his Rock-Jazz period until 1975 when Davis stopped his development because of the tonal and rhythmic density of his music and because of his illness. – After his comeback in the eighties Free Jazz had no influence on the music of Miles Davis any more.