@Joe a very particular kind of swing indeed! The drummer has been identified, but the rest of the rhythm section has not. It's a perhaps unlikely group and if the drummer is the driver of that bus, the others are perfectly in sync, which was not necessarily a given!
Really? I recall nobody making any such claim. That would be both ignorant and stupid.
I do recall a discussion about how much of an impact that Miles had on it, and that there were those who maintained that his input was minimal. I find that to be as ignorant and stupid as having it the other way around.
Sounds like another bunch of racists... they're everywhere, you know. All of them.
Many people like David Rosenthal's Hard Bop.
Me, I found it generic, but it does name a lot of names and stuff. If you're looking for that type of thing, there it is.