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Live recordings from Miles Davis John McLaughlin and Alex Machacek

by Len Davis
October 14, 2022

Live recordings from Miles Davis from The Bootleg Series Vol 7, John McLaughlin, from The Heart of Things-Live in Paris and Alex Machacek from The New Universe Music Festival 2010.Playlist Miles Davis “Katia" from The Bootleg Series Vol 7(Columbia) 00:00 Miles Davis “Miles Runs The Voodoo Down" from Miles at Filmore 1970 (Columbia) 11.00 Alex Machacek “Strafe" from The New Universe Music Festivalo (Abstract Logix) 22:05 John McLaughlin “Acid Jazz" from The Heart of Things-Live in Paris (Verve) ...

Album Review

Miles Davis Quintet: Live Europe 1960 Revisited

Read "Live Europe 1960 Revisited" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May
August 5, 2022

A high proportion of the studio albums recorded by Miles Davis from the mid 1950s until Bitches Brew (Columbia) in 1970 are landmark ones, so frequent and so momentous were the occasions on which Davis adjusted his direction. With a few exceptions, notably My Funny Valentine (Columbia, 1964), this is less true of the live albums until the early 1970s, when Davis' live performances increasingly anticipated changes later heard on studio recordings, especially as regards his choices of repertoire.

Radio & Podcasts

Sam, Miles and Trane

by Bob Osborne
July 28, 2022

For the 500th episode of the World of Jazz show some of my favourite musicians with a focus on Sam Rivers, a new album from Nate Wooley, and a selection of music from Miles Davis and John Coltrane. To kick off jazz meets afrobeat in 1972 with Hugh Masakela. Playlist Show Intro 00:00 Hugh Masakela “Part Of The Whole" from Home Is Where the Music Is (Chisa/Blue Thumb) 00:42 Nate Wooley “(... ..)" from Ancient Songs of Burlap ...

Rediscovery

Miles Davis: Bitches Brew

by Mick Raubenheimer
July 21, 2022

Bitches Brew, (Columbia, 1970) 52 years old this year, can be seen as the elder statesman of jazz fusion, but old it is not, trapped, or rather insulated as it is in its youthfully electric vortex. This ink is daunting. In preparing to tease this retrospective into view, I am listening to Bitches Brew for the first time in a long, highly eventful decade. And the opening strains, instructively, and deceptively placid (the proverbial ellipse preceding rupture), displace me: I ...

Radio & Podcasts

Milestones: Miles Davis Pre 1960 And His Collaborators

by David Brown
July 5, 2022

This week, a mix to mirror book one of the 1983 Miles Davis biography by Jack Chambers that I'm reading. Two full hours, celebrating the music of Miles and his collaborators pre-1960. Playlist Thelonious Monk “Esistrophy (Theme)" from Live at the It Club-Complete (Columbia) 01:30 Miles Davis Quintet “Milestones" from single (Columbia) 02:20 Lee Konitz Sextet “Ezz-Thetic" from single (Prestige) 07:50 George Russell Sextet “Nardis" from Ezz-Thetics (Riverside) 10:41 Miles Davis Quintet “'Round Midnight" from “Round About Midnight ...

Radio & Podcasts

Early Miles Electric music, Bill Laswell Remixes and '80s Jazz Fusion

by Len Davis
July 1, 2022

We begin with some early electric Miles Davis from The Complete In A Silent Way Sessions. Bill Laswell remix of The Music Of Miles Davis. And we explore music from the '80s with Jasper Van't Hof Live In Montreaux, Mike Mainier, The Brecker Brothers and Don Grolnick.Playlist Miles Davis “Splashdown" from The Complete In A Silent Way Sessions (Columbia) 00:00 {Miles Davis “Rated X/Billy Preston" from Panthalassa The Music Of Miles Davis (Columbia) 08:55 {Pierre Moerlans Gong “Crosscurrents" ...

Album Review

Miles Davis: Stockholm Live 1967 & 1969 Revisited

Read "Stockholm Live 1967 & 1969 Revisited" reviewed by Maurizio Comandini

by Maurizio Comandini
June 22, 2022

Stesso leader, Miles Davis; stessa strumentazione, tromba, sax, pianoforte, contrabbasso e batteria; stessa città, Stoccolma, ma in due sale diverse; due anni di distanza. Eppure questi due concerti sono abbastanza diversi fra di loro, anche se forse lo potrebbero essere stati ancora di più. Quello del 1967 vede il quintetto classico di Miles Davis registrato al culmine della sua parabola artistica, con una musica raffinata e potente allo tesso tempo, tecnicamente complessa eppure resa con grande scioltezza, proprio grazie alla ...