AC/DC, MJ, Miles Davis, Def Jam and more box sets
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
Here are a selection of box-set offerings this season:
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The Complete Miles Davis Columbia Collection (stream) (Mixed Media)
PopMatters Music (Free subscription) | yesterday
In celebration of Miles Davis’ 30 plus year stint with Columbia Records, Columbia/Legacy present Miles Davis: The Complete Columbia Album Collection. Exclusive to Amazon.com, the set will include reissues of Davis’ 52 recordings for Columbia plus bonus tracks, an artist biography, a fully annotated discography, a complete song index and rare photos of the jazz mastermind. The set also contains...
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AC/DC, MJ, Miles Davis, Def Jam and more box sets
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | yesterday
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This Week's Interesting Music Releases (November 23rd, 2009)
Largehearted Boy (Free subscription) | yesterday
As the year winds down, the number of new releases dwindles but reissues and box sets are definitely gaining momentum. A handful of box sets are the highlights of this week's music release list. Miles Davis: The Complete Columbia...
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Myron Walden: Momentum
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | yesterday
Sometimes a break can be the best thing a musician can take. Not getting tired by any means, if a four-year sabbatical from recording as a leader results in as strong a comeback as reedman Myron Walden's, perhaps artists should take breaks more often. A charter member of drummer {{Brian Blade = 5053}}'s Fellowship Band, Walden is back with not one, but three CDs over the next couple months. The first,...
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INTERVIEW/PROFILE: A Stylistic and Geographic Traveler Savors His Homecoming
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | yesterday
From one angle, the career of the saxophonist Steve Grossman might seem to have unfolded in reverse. He came onto the radar in 1969, playing state-of-the-art jazz-rock with Miles Davis; he was all of 18. From that sideman perch, among the most visible in jazz, he went on to play rugged, horizon-scanning postbop in the style of John Coltrane, notably with Coltranes former drummer Elvin Jones. Then came...
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EVENT REVIEW: We Want Miles: le Jazz face à sa légende (Paris)
SoulCulture.co.uk (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
Standing in the queue for the museum of the Cité de la Musique’s wide hall, the air that should have been chilling is more than warm. It’s Love. It’s Miles Davis love. From 16 of October until 17 of January, the exhibition We Want Miles celebrates Miles Davis‘ genius, inspiration and prolific work. Numerous shy, rare, [...]
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INTERVIEW/PROFILE: Jazz Musician of the Day: Gunther Schuller
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...
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'Miles Davis: The Complete Columbia Album Collection' due Tues
Chicago Tribune (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
It's a curious irony that at a time when entire music collections can be shrunk down to the size of a couple of sticks of gum, certain music packages keep getting larger.
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New pun(c)uation art gallery opens on Pike
Capitol Hill Seattle (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
CHS joked the other night about a Tweet we saw that was too artsy for us to fully comprehend. Turns out, the Tweeter is the owner of represents a new art gallery that is opening on the Hill tonight: I wanted to follow-up to this tweet you posted recently and tell you a little more about "The Shogunate Revisited", opening tonight at pun(c)tuation on Pike Street. (The storefront that has been...
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Saycon Sengbloh Still Plays With Barbies
Daily Intelligencer - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Name: Saycon Sengbloh Age: "Forever 12. I still play with Barbies." [Ed: 32] Neighborhood: Harlem Occupation: Actress; can be seen playing Sandra in Fela! , opening November 23 at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Who's your favorite New Yorker, living or dead, real or fictional? Miles Davis. His time spent here changed American music forever. The dancers in Fela! are my favorite living New Yorkers...
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CD/DOWNLOAD/ALBUM: Ray Charles, Isaac Hayes 'For Lovers' CDs out on Dec. 22
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Two discs feature the artists' greatest love songs, just in time for Christmas,New Year's Eve, and Valentine's Day! LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Concord Music Group's For Lovers series will continue on December 22, 2009 with CDs from both Ray Charles and Isaac Hayes, featuring each artist's greatest love songs. Previously, Concord has issued For Lovers albums by Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Tony Bennett,...
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DCist Preview: Lee Konitz @ Kennedy Center
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...
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A Random Random 10
Alterdestiny (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
I hadn't done one of these in a long time, so now seemed as good a time as any. 1. "I Can't Get Started" - Charlie Parker 2. "Cheree" - Suicide 3. "Hold On, Hold On" - Neko Case 4. "Do The Rump" - The Black Keys 5. "Armanar (The Pole Star)" - Muhammad Dammou 6. "Cabocla Jurema/Ponto de Janaina" - Maria Bethânia 7. "Is This It"...
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RADIO/PODCAST: "Miles Davis Radio" to Launch Exclusively on Sirius XM Radio
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Limited-run channel hosted by Davis' son Erin Davis, his nephew drummer Vince Wilburn Jr. and bassist, producer and writer Marcus Miller Miles Davis Radio to celebrate the music, life and career of one of music's most legendary icons The channel to showcase everything from Davis' collaborations with Charlie Parker at the age of 19 to his landmark albums Kind of Blue, Birth of the Cool, Bitches Brew...