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Originally Posted by Comus
Miles Davis, Bud Powell, Sonny Rollins, Thelonius Monk, Ella Fitzgerald, Charles Mingus etc all recorded their best material in the 50's. Only Comparable artist that was superior in the 60's that I can remember right now is Coltrane.
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I agree with you about Monk but I think Mingus' and Miles' 60s output was about equal to their 50s output (the other three I'm not enough of a fan of to comment one way or the other). And then of course you have people like Sun Ra, Eric Dolphy and Charlie Haden who were releasing their best stuff in the 60s.