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1959 was a transformative year in Jazz. To quote Jazz guitarist and educator Terrence Brewer: "...beginning with the now infamous Esquire Magazine article entitled “The Golden Age of Jazz,”...with America on the cusp of great social change and political upheaval, and musicians starting to break away from bebop, exploring new, experimental forms that represented an awakening in jazz. Among the seminal recordings released in 1959...Miles Davis’Kind of Blue, the album that gave birth to modal jazz; the

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