Wikiで学ぶ英語 - Jazz【'Round About Midnight - Miles Davis (1957)】

laconic : 簡潔な、簡明な、Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise

Davis' response to this performance was typically laconic: "What are they talking about? I just played the way I always play."
fulfill : 契約を履行する、満たす

During the same period, the Miles Davis Quintet was also recording sessions to fulfill its contract with Prestige.
reprise : 反復する、再現する、再開する、To repeat or resume an action

Miles and company reprise "Budo" from the historic Birth of the Cool sessions.
pinnacle : 頂点、頂上、The highest point; the culmination, summit

Considered by most to be one of the pinnacles of the hard bop era, the song selection on Midnight represents a summation of the earlier bebop era, with the performances tempered by Davis' inherent lyricism ...
let-down : disappointment
embroyonic : 未発達の、in an early stage; rudimentary; undeveloped
frenetic : 熱狂した、激しい、Wildly excited or active; frantic; frenzied

Coltrane had yet to become an iconic figure in jazz history, his presence in the Davis Quintet a let-down to many in lieu of the aforementioned Rollins.
His style, while embryonically frenetic and searching, was not quite the sheets of sound approach celebrated later in the decade.

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