swap_horiz Miles Davis Alternatives

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Louis Armstrong

Louis Armstrong was a pivotal figure in early 20th-century American music. As a trumpeter and vocalist, he significantly...

Classic Swing Vocals New Orleans

9.9 Brilliant

2

John Coltrane

John Coltrane was a highly influential American jazz musician primarily known for his innovative saxophone playing. He d...

Classic Avant Garde Spiritual Modal

9.9 Brilliant

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Wayne Shorter

Wayne Shorter is a highly influential jazz musician recognized for his innovative compositions and distinctive tenor sax...

Composer Classic Fusion Post Bop

9.7 Brilliant

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Bill Evans

Bill Evans was a highly influential American jazz musician primarily known for his innovative approach to piano playing....

Classic Lyrical Piano Modal

9.7 Brilliant

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Herbie Hancock

Herbie Hancock is a highly influential jazz musician recognized for his pioneering work across multiple genres. He began...

Classic Piano Funk Fusion

9.7 Brilliant

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Dizzy Gillespie

Dizzy Gillespie was a highly influential American jazz musician renowned for his virtuosic trumpet playing and significa...

Classic Bebop Trumpet Bandleader

9.6 Brilliant

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Elvin Jones

Elvin Jones was a pivotal figure in 20th-century jazz drumming. He is renowned for his intensely complex polyrhythmic ap...

Classic Polyrhythm Modal Drums

9.6 Brilliant

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Tony Williams

Tony Williams is a highly influential American jazz musician primarily recognized for his groundbreaking work as a drumm...

Classic Fusion Post Bop Drums

9.5 Brilliant

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Clifford Brown

Clifford Brown was an American trumpeter admired for lyric virtuosity, co-leading the Brown-Roach quintet from 1954 unti...

Virtuoso Classic Hard Bop Bebop

9.3 Excellent

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Gil Evans

Gil Evans was a Canadian-born arranger and pianist whose orchestral writing shaped Miles Davis projects such as Birth of...

Classic Arranger Orchestral Piano

9.3 Excellent

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Ahmad Jamal

Ahmad Jamal was an American jazz pianist whose spacious trio style influenced Miles Davis; At the Pershing: But Not for...

Classic Space Piano Cool

9.2 Excellent

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Stan Getz

Stan Getz was an American tenor saxophonist famed for his warm tone and for popularizing bossa nova with the 1964 hit Th...

Classic Lyrical Cool Tenor Sax

9.2 Excellent

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Gerry Mulligan

Gerry Mulligan was an American baritone saxophonist and arranger, central to cool jazz and co-leader of a piano-less qua...

Composer Classic Cool West Coast

9.2 Excellent

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Benny Carter

Benny Carter was an American alto saxophonist, trumpeter, composer, and arranger whose career spanned from 1920s swing i...

Classic Arranger Swing Trumpet

9.2 Excellent

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Dave Brubeck

Dave Brubeck was an American jazz pianist and composer whose quartet popularized unusual meters with the 1959 album Time...

Classic Piano Cool West Coast

9.2 Excellent

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Lester Young

Lester Young was a U.S. tenor saxophonist whose relaxed phrasing with Count Basie in the 1930s became a model for cool j...

Classic Swing Cool Tenor Sax

9.1 Excellent

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Freddie Hubbard

Freddie Hubbard was an American trumpeter who bridged hard bop and post-bop, recording Red Clay in 1970 and appearing on...

Classic Fusion Post Bop Hard Bop

9.1 Excellent

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Jaco Pastorius

Jaco Pastorius was an American electric bassist whose fretless sound transformed jazz fusion through Weather Report and...

Virtuoso Classic Fusion Electric Bass

9.1 Excellent

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John McLaughlin

John McLaughlin is an English guitarist who fused jazz and rock with the Mahavishnu Orchestra and played on Miles Davis'...

Classic Guitar Fusion Indian Jazz

9.1 Excellent

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Donald Byrd

Donald Byrd was an American trumpeter who moved from hard bop to jazz-funk, reaching a wider audience with the 1973 Blue...

Classic Funk Fusion Hard Bop

8.4 Great