Who Was The Better Composer

Just thinking about a review I might do soon on Wayne. He wrote some awesome stuff. Sorcerer , Nefertiti, he wrote nearly the lot. What about "Sanctuary" from Bitches Brew. Miles had his greats though too , don't forget the entire "Kind of Blue" , also Miles or Milestones, depends on the edition of Milestones you own, "Sid's Ahead is on that album too. Something to ponder and we need a Poll

Miles was great at concepts, new directions and fusing elements, but Shorter is the better writer in my opinion.

Gotta say Miles.

MRTVD is genius 

After some consideration, my vote goes to Miles as well

Compositionally speaking, Shorter > Miles.

Miles was a master of putting the right people together and coming up with new ideas to further take jazz into different directions.  He was an innovator.

js wrote: Miles was great at concepts, new directions and fusing elements, but Shorter is the better writer in my opinion.

js wrote: Miles was great at concepts, new directions and fusing elements, but Shorter is the better writer in my opinion.

Miles was awesome. He made arranged jazz with real themes and melodies and stuff and it wasn't pop-jazz or light jazz. It was full jazz but with arrangements, incredible.

MilesBeyond wrote: It was a tough choice, but I ended up going with Miles. Even though his stuff tends to be a bit light on the compositional side (i.e. he usually wrote "sketches" rather than actual jotting out music), this is the very reason why he got my vote. He pioneered a style of writing that I think freed up jazz and allowed instrumentalists to express themselves in unheard ways. Of course, compositionally speaking I think they both pale in comparison to the likes of Monk and the big Duke himself, but they were nonetheless both quite good at what they did.

Yeah, nicely put!
I went for Miles too, as covers a wider range of styles he has the advantage there too