Jazz Articles about Jim Riley

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Album Review

Miles Davis: Bitches Brew 40th Anniversary

Read "Bitches Brew 40th Anniversary" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
December 16, 2010

Lussuria. Se ci fosse una legge che limita ad una sola parola le recensioni dei capolavori, questa sarebbe la nostra scelta per il cofanetto Bitches Brew 40th Anniversary, senza alcun dubbio. Per fortuna una legge del genere (per ora) non c'è e quindi possiamo aggiungere altre riflessioni per raccontare meglio la straordinaria importanza di Bitches Brew nel panorama delle arti di ogni tempo e per sottolineare il senso di meraviglia che questo splendido cofanetto ha suscitato anche in chi di ...

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Album Review

Jim Riley: & Some Colorado Friends

by Jack Bowers
April 1, 2001

Although he was unaware of it before I wrote to ask for a copy of this CD, which I’d seen reviewed in Cadence magazine, saxophonist Jim Riley and I go back a long way together — to the early ’50s when I was a teen–age Jazz fan in Washingon, DC, and Jim was the youngest member of THE Orchestra, a spectacular big band comprised of DC–area musicians and fronted by Willis Conover, who later earned fame as the announcer for ...