Looks like a great article, I will have to spend some time listening, though I've already listened to tons of Miles Davis over the years.
These articles are always missing a ton when they're written by a non-musician. That seems to be the issue with jazz. It's really really hard to tell what's going on if you're not a player, and jazz is not an easy thing to understand and learn even when you are a player.
I took Music History as an elective in college and it was really tough as a non-musician to understand a lot of this stuff. I made it a goal to learn an instrument and actually learn to understand this stuff as an adult as a result. And Jazz of course comes up as something very tricky to get your head around when you're trying to play it. The "aha" moments when you dig deep into a piece trying to play it/studying the score are what makes it special, and these kind of treatments of famous musicians completely gloss over that, as if it doesn't even exist.
These articles are always missing a ton when they're written by a non-musician. That seems to be the issue with jazz. It's really really hard to tell what's going on if you're not a player, and jazz is not an easy thing to understand and learn even when you are a player.
I took Music History as an elective in college and it was really tough as a non-musician to understand a lot of this stuff. I made it a goal to learn an instrument and actually learn to understand this stuff as an adult as a result. And Jazz of course comes up as something very tricky to get your head around when you're trying to play it. The "aha" moments when you dig deep into a piece trying to play it/studying the score are what makes it special, and these kind of treatments of famous musicians completely gloss over that, as if it doesn't even exist.