Reception
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| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic | |
| Down Beat | |
| Entertainment Weekly | (A) |
| The Independent | (favorable) |
| Penguin Guide to Jazz | |
| Warr.org | |
The Penguin Guide to Jazz gave Miles Ahead a four-star rating out of a possible four stars, and called the album "a quiet masterpiece... with a guaranteed place in the top flight of Miles albums." Of Davis' flugelhorn, Kevin Whitehead of Cadence wrote that it "seemed to suit better than trumpet: more full-bodied, less shrill, it glosses over his technical deficiencies." The Penguin Guide, on the other hand, opined that "the flugelhorn's sound isn't so very different from his trumpet soloing, though palpably softer-edged.... ome of the burnish seems to be lost."
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