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Miles Davis: Kind Of Blue
by Jeff Stockton
If you're reading this, chances are you already own a copy (or copies) of Kind Of Blue, widely acknowledged to be the best-selling jazz record of all time. The funny thing, and what makes it a phenomenon, is how many people who don't visit All About Jazz own a copy of the record. It's usually the first jazz title someone buys and it's probably the one record that has appeal to listeners regardless of their prevailing tastes.Just what ...
Continue ReadingMiles Davis: Kind of Blue (50th Anniversary Collector’s edition)
by AAJ Italy Staff
Kind of Blue, il capolavoro del jazz, compie cinquant'anni. E la Columbia lo festeggia con una riedizione ricca di suggestioni e di fascino. Un box di grande formato, elegante e autorevole, racchiude la replica in vinile blu particolarmente spesso dell’album originale, due CD e un DVD. Ad accompagnare le fonti musicali troviamo un volume di grande formato, ricchissimo di foto e di commenti, un poster di grande dimensioni che racchiude a mo’ di trittico rinascimentale tre scatti in bianco e ...
Continue ReadingMiles Davis All-Stars: Broadcast Sessions 1958-59
by Stuart Broomer
Jazz has been shaped in large part by a few great bands; few, however, would challenge the late '50s Miles Davis bands for collective achievement and sheer brilliance and influence at each instrument, with Davis, John Coltrane (tenor), Red Garland (piano), Paul Chambers (bass) and Philly Joe Jones (drums). It was an extraordinary collocation of the raw and refined, the exploratory and decorative, the hesitant and explosive, sometimes within a single piece. Even the early alterations were remarkable, whether it ...
Continue ReadingAa.Vv.: Blue Note Perfect Takes [CD/DVD]
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by AAJ Italy Staff
La serie di ristampe RVG è una delle operazioni discografiche più riuscite degli ultimi tempi. Rudy Van Gelder è l’uomo che ha definito il sound ottimale di un disco jazz, partendo dai combo che la Blue Note catturava alla fine degli anni Quaranta per arrivare alle grandi orchestre prodotte da Creed Taylor nei primi anni Settanta. In mezzo collaborazioni con Prestige, Impulse, Verve ecc. E’ solo con l’avvento della ECM che appare un’estetica alternativa, nella sua glaciale e claustrofobica bellezza ...
Continue ReadingMiles Davis: Someday My Prince Will Come
by Samuel Chell
Miles Davis Someday My Prince Will Come Sony BMG 2008 Recorded over the course of three days in April of 1961, Someday My Prince Will Come is at once a curiosity and a masterpiece, a recording that not only captures trumpeter Miles Davis' group in flux but practically crystallizes the very moment of transition. As on Kind of Blue (Columbia, 1959), for which the leader brought back pianist Bill ...
Continue ReadingMiles Davis, Miles Smiles, and the Invention of Post Bop
by David Rickert
Miles Davis, Miles Smiles, and the Invention of Post Bop Jeremy Yudkin Indiana University Press ISBN: 978-0-253-21952-7 184 pages
More books have been written about trumpeter Miles Davis than any other jazz musician, leaving authors who want to tackle him with little option other than to present their own unique take on his legacy.
Jeremy Yudkin, a professor of music at Boston University's College of Fine Arts, tackles the subject with an ...
Continue ReadingThe Miles Davis Reader
by Francis Lo Kee
The Miles Davis Reader: Interviews and Features from DownBeat Magazine Frank Alkyer Hardcover; 356 pages ISBN: 142343076X Hal Leonard 2007
Miles Davis (1926-1991) was more than a trumpet player and bandleader. He was also well known for his outspoken personality, sometimes viewed as the epitome of an idolized jazz musician and an 'object' of obsession. Or as Frank Alkyer says in the preface to this book, “Miles made for great ...
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