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  "name": "Miles Davis",
  "description": "Miles Davis appears 2 times in our Jazz and Laurent Garnier — A Life in Twenty-One Records lists, placing as high as No. 2. Hand-curated, with a reason for every pick.",
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      "title": "So What",
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      "label": "Columbia",
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      "whyItMatters": "While recording The Man With The Red Face I could not tell the jazz musicians what I wanted, because I did not have the words. A friend handed me Kind of Blue and said: study this, learn the vocabulary.",
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