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7. Modal Jazz (Late 1950s-1960s)

[To be written: Kind of Blue; Miles Davis and John Coltrane; George Russell’s Lydian Chromatic Concept; Modes instead of chord changes; Scale-based improvisation; Static harmony; Pedal points; Spiritual searching]

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