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Michigan Tech, with a 22-6-6 record, continues to lead the poll voted by a panel of ten coaches from the three major college leagues in the country. Radio station WMPL in Hancock, Michigan, conducts the survey...
MILES. That's right, Miles Davis. This music--Tony William's, John McLaughlin's, Chick Corea's, Herbie Hancock's, Joe Zawinul's--is his music and these men are his sons. All have done some time with Miles--the late, post-In a Silent Way Miles, the Miles who claims the influence of Sly Stone--and owing to their own ambitions and Miles's idiosyncracies, have since gone out on their own. The result is a music of distinct generations, like later San Francisco rock. But unlike those rock bands, who finally managed to develop reasonably unique personae, Miles...
...have resulted from Miles's own experiments form a mini-spectrum making up one end of a larger spectrum of all jazz. At the rock end of the small one lies The Mahavishnu Orchestra. Zawinul's Weather Report, from what little I've heard, seems a bit ethereal. Herbie Hancock's music is similar to what Miles himself is doing now. And Tony Williams's old Lifetime added a harsh virtuosity that set it apart from McLaughlin's more lyrical intensity, while retaining the solid rhythm section of good rock music. Chick Corea? Well, his band is...different...
Edgar Allen Poe, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Charles Francis Adams were each stationed there, and John Hancock was a commander there for several years, Turnbaugh said
...spokesman for the personnel office of the John Hancock Co. said independent project assignments within an institutional structure are "extraordinarily difficult to arrange...