My Fickle Ears Dig It (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
I soon realized that in the course of the previous discussion on pop, I omitted an important predilection of mine that happens to come from the pop world, that being Jimi Hendrix. Not that I'm any kind of Hendrix expert, but I do seriously dig his music. I'd venture that Hendrix's appeal is almost as universal as The Beatles', and also that it's more universal than the Beatles' among people who also...
JazzHQ (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
Albert Ayler - Greenich Village (Universal Japan/Zoom ) Amanda Martinez - Amor (Phantom ) Anita O'Day - Sings Winners (Universal ) Anita Spring - Let Them Talk (Phantom ) Art Blakey - Jazz Message (Universal ) Art Sherrod Jr. - Seasons (Pacific Coast Jazz ) Benny Carter - Further Definitions (Universal Japan/Zoom ) Bernie McGann - Solar (Indies Aus/Zoom ) Bill Evans - With Symphony Orchestra (Universal...
icWales (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
28 December, 1908 Cardiff 24, Australia 8 Cardiff: Robbie Williams; Johnnie Williams, Louis Dyke, Billy Spiller, Reg Gibbs; Percy Bush (capt), Willie Morgan; J Daley, Joe Pugsley, George Yewlett, Frank Gaccon, Dai Westacott, John Brown, John Powell, Jim Casey.
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
All About Jazz is celebrating Gunther Schuller's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Gunther SchullerThe composer Gunther Schuller is, famously, a man of many musical pursuits. He began his professional life as a horn player in both the jazz and classical worlds, working as readily with Miles Davis and Gil Evans as with Toscanini... more...
DCist (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Feeling the limitations of the jazz combo format that was prevalent in the late 1940s, Miles Davis assembled a nonet to play music that allowed for more orchestration and color, while still maintaining the improvisational elements of that era's be-bop sound. With orchestrations from the great arranger Gil Evans , as well as band members Gerry Mulligan and John Lewis , the band performed briefly in...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Birth of the Cool Performed by The Don Wilson Trio Lecture by Bob Perkins October 25, 2009 The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Philadelphia, PA This writer could think of no better way to spend an autumn Sunday afternoon than to stroll over to the fabled Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts to hear the revered local disc jockey Bob Perkins reflect upon the groundbreaking {{Miles Davis = 6144}} album,...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Miles Davis: The Complete Columbia Album Collection, a deluxe CD/DVD box set, contains every album released by the jazz master on Columbia Records. This limited edition retrospective of 70 CDs and one DVD will be released on November 24.
On An Overgrown Path (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Two of the compositions introduced on 'Brubeck plays Brubeck' are now recognized as jazz standards: They have been recorded and performed many times by many different artists, most notably by Miles Davis with Gil Evans' orchestral arrangements and by Bill Evans solo piano . My publisher has informed me that at last count there were over 60 different versions of 'In Your Own Sweet Way' recorded by various...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
John Abercrombie Live Interview with Dave Schroeder at Barnes and Noble (NYC) on Friday, November 13th at 7:00 p.m. Join us this Friday, November 13th, for an in-store Barnes and Noble interview with seminal jazz guitarist, John Abercrombie. Time: 7:00pm - 8:00pm Barnes and Noble 150 East 86th Street New York, NY 10028...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Go and Find is appropriately named by its chanteuse, Leanne Weatherly. The artist is indeed a find. She has rare and complete mastery over her voice that lopes like a gazelle. She can make it hover in somber depths and soar joyful and unfettered into a stratospheric orbit, creating something between goose bumps on the back of the neck and unexpected tingles on scalp and back. The wondrous vocal expeditions...
PopMatters Music (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
These beautifully arranged pieces place this among the really enjoyable and surprising Christmas albums. Over 40 years ago, Carla Bley had a job as an arranger of Christmas carols for schools. She has returned on occasion to festive music since then and now does so in the company of Steve Swallow and the Partyka Brass Quintet. The result is a selection of classic carols, festive hits, and original...
Rifftides (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
For the new segment of our adventure in letting bassists be our guides, author, critic and sometime Rifftides commentator Larry Kart has a fine idea. May I suggest, for Part 4, Paul Chambers behind Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Wynton Kelly...
The Guardian Music blog (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Emerging from the shadow of his hero Charlie Parker, Miles Davis rejected the aggressive tempos of bebop to pioneer a new style that became a landmark in jazz evolution Miles Davis, the dentist's son from St Louis who came to New York in 1944 to study music, dropped out of college when he met Charlie "Bird" Parker . Like most jazz-obsessed kids his age, Davis fell under Parker's spell, becoming...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
The 7th Ave. home in the '80s and early '90s of Gil Evans' last orchestra, David Murray's octets, Abdullah Ibrahim's bands, Lester Bowie's Brass Fantasy and other avant-gutsy acts closed last night (Oct. 24) without notice or fanfare. Sweet Rhythm nee Sweet Basil was one of the coolest spots to listen, drink and hang out in Greenwich Village, a wood-paneled room with fine sound, sightlines, bookings...
[BB-Blog] (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
Miles and Trane make rainy days better. "So What" is the first track on the 1959 Miles Davis and John Coltrane album Kind of Blue and is often credited as one of his best works. It is one of the most well-known examples of modal jazz, set in the Dorian mode and consisting of 16 bars of D minor7, followed by eight bars of Eb minor7 and another eight of D minor7. This AABA structure puts it...
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