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Film Review

Miles Davis: The Definitive Miles Davis at Montreux DVD Collection 1973-1991

by John Kelman
November 8, 2011

Miles Davis Miles! The Definitive Miles Davis at Montreux DVD Collection 1973-1991 Eagle Eye Media 2011With 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 28, 1991, ...

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Book Review

Brian Morton & Richard Cook: The Penguin Jazz Guide - The History of the Music in the 1001 Best Albums

by C. Michael Bailey
August 27, 2011

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 ...

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Film Review

Miles Davis: Live at Montreux - Highlights 1973-1991

by John Kelman
July 27, 2011

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 ...

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Mix Tape

Now's the Time: Miles Davis 1945-1989

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
May 27, 2011

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 ...

Album Review

Miles Davis: Bitches Brew Live

Read "Bitches Brew Live" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
April 26, 2011

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 ...

Album Review

Miles Davis: The Unissued Japanese Concerts

by AAJ Italy Staff
April 11, 2011

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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Album Review

Miles Davis: Bitches Brew Live

Read "Bitches Brew Live" reviewed by Doug Collette

by Doug Collette
February 24, 2011

Bitches Brew Live documents Miles Davis, as he moved off the cusp of acoustic and electric jazz. The hour-long disc contains two live performances that constitute concert corollaries to the studio albums of their time, with which The Man With The Horn revolutionized modern jazz. The three recordings from the Newport Jazz Festival in 1969 have the streamlined clarity of In A Silent Way (Columbia, 1969), in part because saxophonist/composer Wayne Shorter missed the gig. There is none ...