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Miles Davis, Tony Williams, Flat Earth Society, Paolo Fresu & More

by Ludovico Granvassu
August 29, 2026

Countless ways to celebrate the electric era of Miles Davis.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Paolo Fresu “Orange" kind of LIVES (Tǔk) 0:16 Host talks 2:56 Flat Earth Society “It's About That Time" In a Silent Way (Zonk) 5:12 Miles Davis “Directions" Reference: Miles Davis' 3rd Quintet Bitches Brew Live 1969 in Europe (AlAy) 15:37 Tony Williams Lifetime “Spectrum" Reference: Emergency! (AlAy) 25:58 Host talks 34:52 The Big ...

Live Review

The Tension Is Where the Music Lives: Miles Davis at 100, Part 3

by Kofi Adjepong-Boateng
August 26, 2026

Herbie Hancock Celebrates Miles Davis Hollywood Bowl Los Angeles, CA August 19, 2026 The Hollywood Bowl began as a picnic ground called Daisy Dell, a canyon chosen for its acoustics, willed into being largely by women, chief among them Artie Mason Carter, a music teacher who believed music was for everyone and priced every seat at a quarter. It opened in 1922 and still seats around 17,500 under the open sky; the audience still arrives ...

Radio & Podcasts

Boxes: Mass Market, Boutique, and Odd

by Patrick Burnette
August 20, 2026

Mike is swamped in Spain (with homework, not water), so Pat does an intermediary episode that is .5 by name, .5 by nature. He takes a look at five box sets in three completely made up categories and when he's done you'll still have time to go out for a nice dinner.Playlist Discussion of John Coltrane's album The Complete Village Vanguard 1961 Recordings (Impulse!) 4:00 Discussion of Charles Mingus' album Changes: The Complete 1970s Atlantic Studio Recordings (Atlantic) ...

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Fillmore Dreams, Part 2

by Blue Note Portal
August 8, 2026

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 The transition was not at all what Xample expected. Dr. Kovac had walked him through the neural integration protocol multiple times. He had read the technical documentation--all 1,400 pages of it. He had sat in the chamber on the seventy-seventh floor, felt the interface nodes calibrate against his temporal lobes, felt the gentle heat of the mapping sequence as it built a model of his sensorium. He had closed his ...

The Blue Note Portal

Fillmore Dreams, Part 1

by Blue Note Portal
August 7, 2026

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 The room had no name. It didn't need one. Everyone who mattered in the trillion-dollar architecture of Xample Global knew exactly where they were when the elevator opened onto the seventy-seventh floor of the X Tower in what had once been called New York City and was now, in the casual parlance of 2092, simply “the Corridor." The boardroom was a perfect sphere, suspended within the larger structure ...

Album Review

Miles Davis' 3rd Quintet: Reference: Bitches Brew Live 1969 In Europe

Read "Reference: Bitches Brew Live 1969 In Europe" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
July 11, 2026

For Miles Davis, timing was everything. His music rarely stood still long enough for audiences to catch up. The Columbia releases of Filles de Kilimanjaro (January 29, 1969) and In a Silent Way (July 30, 1969) marked the decisive bridge between his acoustic past and electric future. Yet Davis was already moving beyond that bridge before listeners had a chance to cross it. Less than a month after In a Silent Way reached record stores, he assembled musicians for what ...

Radio & Podcasts

Miles the Composer Part 3: The second great quintet

by Larry Slater
July 3, 2026

Miles Davis wasn't a prolific composer, and he wrote even less in his later years. There are some classic tunes from the late '50s, and a few written for the second great quartet. Many of these compositions have stood the test of time to become jazz standards..In this hour you'll hear the two tunes written for his wife Frances Davis, “Fran Dance" and “Pfrancing." Other classic Davis tunes you'll hear include “Seven Steps to Heaven," “Teo," “Nardis," “Filles ...