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Joey DeFrancesco: From Musical Prodigy to Jazz Icon

by Victor L. Schermer
May 29, 2019

Joey DeFrancesco is a true master of the jazz organ, the one others look up to as the standard bearer, as was his inspirational hero, Jimmy Smith. Arguably, he could be dubbed the Mozart of the jazz organ, since like Mozart, he seemed to have been born with all the music already in him. By four, ...

Merci Miles! Live at Vienne

By Miles Davis

Label: Warner Bros.
Released: 2021
Track listing: Hannibal; Human Nature; Time After Time; Penetration; Wrinkle; Amandla; Jailbait; Finale

Miles Davis: Merci Miles! Live at Vienne

by Ian Patterson
October 28, 2021

So great was Miles Davis' legend, so magnetic his aura, that the crowds and the adulation only increased towards the end of his life—a period when he was playing arguably the least progressive music of his career. This double-CD recording of a concert at the Jazz à Vienne Festival from 1991 is a case in point. ...

Miles Davis: Merci Miles! Live at Vienne

by Maurizio Comandini
July 29, 2021

Miles Davis ha sempre avuto un rapporto speciale con la Francia. Il suo primo tour in Europa, a maggio del 1949, lo vide proprio protagonista a Parigi con il quintetto che lo vedeva co-leader assieme al pianista Tadd Dameron. Miles era poco più che ventenne e subito fu adorato dagli artisti che si radunavano alla corte ...