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Miles Davis: Royal Festival Hall, London

David Sinclair, The Times, 22 July 1985

DRAWING THE curtain on this year's JVC/Capital Radio Festival, Miles Davis was on buoyant and industrious form. Now in the twilight of an illustrious career as leading light in the bebop and West Coast "cool" school of jazz, and the most, prominent architect of jazz-rock fusion, the unpredictable 59-year-old Davis nevertheless betrayed no lack of inspiration or stamina.

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