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The Miles Davis Quintet: Live In Europe 1967: The Bootleg Series Vol. 1
by AAJ Italy Staff
Questo cofanetto comprende 3 CD e un DVD e presenta, per la prima volta ufficialmente, le registrazioni di cinque date del tour europeo dell'autunno 1967 del quintetto di Miles Davis. Buona parte del materiale qui proposto era già nota ai super collezionisti attraverso lo scambio di preziose registrazioni pirata. Evidentemente, la Sony Legacy, con grande ironia, ha deciso di evocare quello spirito sacrilego, battezzando Bootleg Series la collana di cui questo cofanetto rappresenta il primo volume. I concerti sono qualitativamente ...
Continue ReadingMiles Davis: The Definitive Miles Davis at Montreux DVD Collection 1973-1991
by John Kelman
Miles Davis Miles! The Definitive Miles Davis at Montreux DVD Collection 1973-1991 Eagle Eye Media 2011 With the release of Live at Montreux: Highlights 1973-1991 (Eagle Eye Media, 2011) a couple of months back, notice was served of a much more ambitious collection, bringing together all of Miles Davis' concerts at the esteemed Swiss festival, from the summer of 1973 through to less than 90 days before the trumpet legend's untimely passing on September ...
Continue ReadingBrian Morton & Richard Cook: The Penguin Jazz Guide - The History of the Music in the 1001 Best Albums
by C. Michael Bailey
The Penguin Jazz Guide: The History of the Music in the 1001 Best Albums Brian Morton and Richard Cook Paperback; 768 pages ISBN: 9780141048314 Penguin Books 2010 Attention: The Penguin Jazz Guide: The History of the Music in the 1001 Best Albums does not equal The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. The former, new publication has been roundly criticized for not being the latter in all of its exhaustive glory, when it ...
Continue ReadingMiles Davis: Live at Montreux - Highlights 1973-1991
by John Kelman
Miles DavisLive at Montreux--Highlights 1973-1991 Eagle Eye Media2011 When Miles Davis plugged in towards the end of the 1960s, it may have been a huge shot fired across the bow of the jazz intelligentsia, who loudly cried foul and began the first of many accusations of “selling out," but for the trumpet icon, it was business as usual. In a career that ultimately spanned five decades before he passed away, all ...
Continue ReadingNow's the Time: Miles Davis 1945-1989
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
Franck Bergerot's Miles Davis: Introduction à l'écoute du jazz moderne (Seuil, 1996) suggests that you can hear a lot of Davis' musical world in his 45-second solo on Charlie Parker's “Now's the Time," beginning at 1:45. This is one among many dimensions of Davis' musicianship—nocturnal, blues-tinged, largely without the mute, alternating between a tenderness and a kind of aggression, as on the desultory attitude toward the composition on “Stella by Starlight." The spacious, ethereal nature of the 1945 solo is ...
Continue ReadingMiles Davis: Bitches Brew Live
by AAJ Italy Staff
A volte anche un piccolo dettaglio fa la differenza. Il saxofonista Wayne Shorter rimase imbottigliato nel traffico e non raggiunse in tempo Newport per il concerto che il quintetto di Miles Davis doveva tenere il 5 luglio del 1969 nella frizzante località balneare del Rhode Island che ospitava il festival jazz forse più famoso del mondo di quei tempi. Il quintetto diventò un quartetto e la tromba magica di Miles si trovò a scorrazzare liberamente sulle trame fornite da un ...
Continue ReadingMiles Davis: The Unissued Japanese Concerts
by AAJ Italy Staff
Questo doppio CD, quanto mai prezioso, va finalmente a integrare la sparuta documentazione (un solo album, l'ufficiale Columbia Miles in Tokyo) riguardante il fugace passaggio - fra George Coleman e Wayne Shorter - di un Sam Rivers ancora lontano dai fasti degli anni Settanta nel quintetto davisiano. Ciascun dischetto si riferisce a un diverso concerto (presumibilmente non in versione integrale, visto che nessuno dei due supera i tre quarti d'ora): il primo a Tokio il 12 giugno 1964 (quindi due ...
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