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Miles Davis & Gil Evans: The
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134:Producer(s)
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120:Composer(s)
39:Miles Davis
35:Composition
29:"All Blues"
1754:Categories
1623:Milestones
1373:Super Hits
1366:Love Songs
1352:Directions
1345:1958 Miles
1194:Dark Magus
1187:In Concert
983:recordings
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721:Milestones
619:Blue Moods
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1574:Boplicity
1560:All Blues
1268:Blue Haze
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798:Nefertiti
443:All Blues
310:Billboard
231:Personnel
184:, with a
149:All Blues
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1404:Box sets
791:Sorcerer
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112:Columbia
70:Recorded
55:Released
1644:So What
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268:piano
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79:Genre
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981:Live
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882:Aura
327:ISBN
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