Chicago Tribune (Free subscription) | yesterday
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.
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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"...
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...
JazzHQ (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
African Methodist Choir - African Hymns (Arc Music ) Alessandr Magnanini - Someway Still I Do (Phantom ) Bob Baldwin - Collector's Pack (NuGroove ) Bruce Turner - Dirty Bopper (United States Of Distribution LTD. ) Bruce Turner - The Dirty Bopper (United States Of Distribution LTD. ) Caledonia Jazz Band - Street People ( ) Collage - Fifty-Four Minutes Twenty Seconds (Wool ) Collage - Fifty Four Minutes...
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 Atheist Experience (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Okay, so I read on Pharyngula this morning that Ray Comfort, the World's Stupidest Christian™, rescheduled his giveaway of his bowdlerized Origin of Species on university campuses for today instead of tomorrow, evidently because he heard that people were preparing to counter it by printing up information from the NCSE's enjoyable Don't Diss Darwin site . So naturally, he had to do an end-run around...
The Inquisitr (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
New York, NY (CNS) – Sirius XM Radio has announced the launch of a new 24-hour commercial-free channel devoted to the music of jazz legend Miles Davis. The Miles Davis Radio will run on a limited basis from November 20 to 25 on Sirius channel 72 and XM channel 70. Miles Davis Radio will be hosted [...]
Causecast - Latest News (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
by ERICA LIEPMANN , Causecast Associate Editor The Chinese government has occupied Tibet for over a half century, during which time thousands of monasteries have been destroyed, Tibetans have been killed and the country's spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, was forced to flee the country. The Tibet House was founded in the late 1980s at the request of the Dalai Lama himself to ensure that whatever the...
Orbitcast (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Widely considered one of the most influential jazz musicians of the 20th century, Miles Davis will soon have a channel dedicated to his life and music, starting this Friday, November 20th....
TechCrunch (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
MOG continues to tease us with short videos showing parts of the upcoming MOG All Access music service. Last week they showed a video on playlist creation - the best part was seeing how search works. Now they've uploaded a new video that shows robust music discovery through playlist searching. Type in any number of artists and see playlists that include all of those artists. You can also combine artist...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
NEW YORK, Nov. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SIRIUS XM Radio (Nasdaq: SIRI) announced today that it will launch Miles Davis Radio, a 24-hour commercial-free channel devoted to the music and career of Miles Davis, one of the greatest visionaries and most important figures in jazz history.
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