All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Miles Davis Miles: The New Miles Davis Quintet Prestige Year Miles Davis Kind of Blue:Legacy Edition Columbia/Legacy Year In 1955, after a few years working with pick-up bands and fuelled by a legendary comeback appearance at the Newport Jazz Festival, {{Miles Davis = 6144}} assembled the band that's since become known as the First Great Quintet. Miles, sub-titled The New Miles Davis Quintet, represents...
France24 (Free subscription) | yesterday
Fifty years on, drummer Jimmy Cobb still can't believe what he, Miles Davis and five other jazz musicians achieved over two days in a converted church in New York. "Nobody could have conceived that 50 years later this would be going on," he said of the extraordinary success of "Kind of Blue", the best-selling jazz album ever which still sells in the thousands every week.
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | yesterday
In Manhattan in the late 1950s, it was great to be young and a jazz fan. The drinking age in New York state was 18, so a college student with a draft card and the price of a couple of beers could sit at the bar of a club and catch a full evening of Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Charles Mingus, Bill Evans, or other greats.
Cloudland Blue - A Diary (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
Playist Ken Hensley/John Wetton - More Than Conquerors Ken Hensley/John Wetton - One Way or Another Dream Theater - Black Clouds and Silver Linings Brand New - The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me Led Zeppelin - Presence Miles Davis Quintet - 1963-1968 (MP3 CD) Phish - Slip Stich and Pass Wings - At The Speed of Sound The Chameleons - Script of the Bridge King Crimson - Live in Warsaw 2000 Up at...
Sara Ryan (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
I’m working on the graphic novel all day today, and listening to John Coltrane and Miles Davis. While staring into space (because that is, of course, an important component of working) I suddenly noticed the pleasing industrial geometry above. If you look closely, you can see the reflection of Steve’s drawing table. Originally published at sararyan.com . You can comment here or there .
The Daily Swarm (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Art D’Lugoff, who was widely regarded as the dean of New York nightclub impresarios and whose storied spot, the Village Gate, was for more than 30 years home to performers as celebrated, and diverse, as Duke Ellington, Allen Ginsberg and John Belushi, died on Wednesday in Manhattan…. …Though most often thought of as a jazz space — among the eminences heard there over the...
A Jazz Blog (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Last night US pianist Kirk Lightsey played with an energy and intensity that belied his years (he's in his Seventies). Kirk delighted the audience with a set that was passionate, joyful and virtuosic. Elements of his playing include they way he balances hard bop soulfulness and with the harmonic complexities of Bill Evans. He has a fiercely strong left hand - jabbing away in a bebop style, playing...
Planet Intertwingly (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Anger can be a great musical catalyst. The story is told about Miles Davis's historic 1964 concert at Lincoln Center, that the band was angry that Miles had preemptively waived their fees for charity. The performance, duly celebrated in two albums, My Funny Valentine and Four and more , can be said to have that urgent yet sinuous edge that make it one of the essential live musical performances. The...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Miroslav Vitous Group w/ Michel Portal Remembering Weather Report ECM 2009 Louis Sclavis Lost on the Way ECM 2009 Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble The Moment's Energy ECM 2009 Jan Garbarek Group Dresden ECM 2009 1969 was a major milestone in our cultural history. But that momentous year also marks the debut release from ECM Records, a label that arguably defined the jazz category in the '70s,...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Miles Davis Sketches of Spain (50th Anniversary Edition) Columbia-Legacy 2009 MSM Jazz Orchestra Miles Ahead Live Jazzheads 2009 Third Stream, an attempt to meld aspects of jazz and European classical and world musics, as a term may have gone away, but that can't be said for the musical movement of that name that flourished at the mid-point of the 20th Century. Although not often acknowledged, it has...
Jesus' General (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Fred Kaplan 's 1959: The Year That Changed Everything (John Wiley and Sons $27.95) chronicles an extraordinary year. On January 1st, Fidel Castro's revolutionaries took power in Cuba. On January 4th Soviet Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan visited the United States. Fidel would do the same on April 15th, followed by Khrushchev on September 15th. On April 9th, Lenny Bruce appeared on television. On March...
Me, Myself An Eye (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Well, I hope this isn't a anti-climatic (HI-YO!) end to Sex Week on The Beautiful Struggler. But I've pretty much done all the talking I needed to do on the subject. Good music is so much a part of my best sexual memories and since it's Five For Friday, I thought I would share some sexytime jams. "No, my brother, you've got to get your own! Well, I'll share just this one time..." I'm highlighting...
pricy-spicy (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Sony Music released a unique surpsise for all music fans - at once exclusive music products! These are two separate Yo-Yo Ma and Miles Davis collection box sets. These two deluxe compilations include all of the music and memorabilia that casual fans, music lovers, super fans and collectors alike would love to experience.The limited-edition Yo-Yo [...]
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Meet Karen Segal: Originally from Boston, Massachusetts and based in San Francisco, Karen played with {{Marilyn Mazur = 9202}} ({{Miles Davis = 6144}}) and Suzanne Fasteau ({{Bill Evans = 6592}}) in Copenhagen as a teenager. She co-founded the acid-jazz band "Red Clay" with David Brown (Brazzaville, Beck) in Los Angeles in the early 1990's. Karen has studied with teachers including {{Dean...
Rock Sellout (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
The first time I heard Pelican was a swap out of music with fellow contributor Erik. I have always been a fan of instrumental bands such as Mogwai and Totoise, I have even been known to have a heavy collection of Miles Davis albums. I loved the dynamics of Pelican and abstract noise that came with it. Recently getting a chance to listen to "What We All Come to Need", I instantly new this...
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