Jazz Articles about Circle

Circle: Tower

by Mark Corroto
July 5, 2007

What if, in 1969 Miles Davis' band took the stage and began playing the trumpeter's introduction, but Miles never made the gig?

Chick Corea and/or Joe Zawinul run through choruses of those science fiction, electric piano and synthesizer notes while Jack DeJohnette blends his jazz and world music drumming--that is, years before we called it world music.

John McLaughlin, fresh off Davis' instructions to “play it like you don't know how to play the guitar, channels R&B, rock and noise ...