The career of trumpeter Miles Davis was one of the most astonishingly productive that jazz music has ever seen.
Topic
Miles Davis's career
Frameworks
Theme / Example, Highlight Something Noteworthy
Main Point
Davis's career was incredibly productive and under-appreciated, both due in part to how many stylistic evolutions Davis went through over the years.
P1 - Thesis
We might have alternatively thought of this passage with a "Theme / Example" framework, since this first paragraph really lays out the overarching theme that the rest of the paragraphs unpack: a lot of zigzags.
P2 - First Stylistic Zigzag
Davis starts as bebop but then develops "cool jazz" (slower tempos and less soloing).
P3 - Second Stylistic Zigzag
Davis breaks free from chord patterns and seeks a more open, unified sound like that of orchestral pieces. Soloists have less constraints.
P4 - Third Stylistic Zigzag
Davis starts taking on more conventions of rock music -- electrified instruments and a cut-and-paste recording process that's a violation of the norms of jazz. He takes some heat from the critics.
P5 - Author's Causal Explanation
Here the author tries to explain why Davis was frequently maligned by contemporary critics and thus has not received his proper due as the genius he was -- critics are afraid when artists broaden possibilities or defy genre categorization (as apparently they rely on those things to do their jobs).