Why did Miles Davis fire John Coltrane from his quintet in 1957?

a. the critics had been panning his playing and Miles didn't want the bad publicity
b. Coltrane's drug and alcohol habits made him unreliable
c. Miles and Coltrane never got along very well
d. Coltrane's playing didn't meet up to Miles's standards


b

Art & Culture

You might also like to view...

Limitations in a disciplinary perspective mean that

a. the insights of the discipline are skewed by the way each author (disciplinary expert) defines the problem, and the interdisciplinarian must acknowledge this in her or his research b. the insights of the discipline are confused by the way each author (disciplinary expert) defines the problem, and the interdisciplinarian must acknowledge this in her or his research c. Limitations in a disciplinary perspective have no bearing on interdisciplinary research.

Art & Culture

"What is the sound of one hand clapping?" is an example of a Zen __________

A. shoin B. cha-no-yu C. samurai D. koan E. shogun

Art & Culture

Because each strophe receives its own musical setting, Still's "A Black Pierrot" is considered to be in __________ form

a) strophic b) modified strophic c) rondo d) through-composed

Art & Culture

Prohibition had little effect on Chicago's night life because

a. even the mayor needed a drink now and then b. no one drank anyway in the nightclubs, cabarets, and speakeasies?where jazz musicians found easy employment c. organized crime, which prohibition inadvertently encouraged, stepped up activities to satisfy demand for liquor d. none of the above

Art & Culture