Jazz Articles about Miles Davis

Miles Davis All-Stars: Broadcast Sessions 1958-59

by Stuart Broomer
December 9, 2008

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 ...

Aa.Vv.: Blue Note Perfect Takes [CD/DVD]

by AAJ Italy Staff
October 22, 2008

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 ...

Miles Davis: Someday My Prince Will Come

by Samuel Chell
June 29, 2008

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 ...

Miles Davis, Miles Smiles, and the Invention of Post Bop

by David Rickert
May 15, 2008

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 ...

The Miles Davis Reader

by Francis Lo Kee
February 2, 2008

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 ...

Miles Davis: The Complete On The Corner Sessions

by Graham L. Flanagan
December 12, 2007

What better gift could you think of bestowing on the Miles Davis fan in your family this holiday season than the exhaustively comprehensive The Complete On The Corner Sessions--a set that expands on the legendary trumpeter's 1972 release that some interpreted as a “f*#k you to his loyal fan base. Although On The Corner might exist in the minds of many as Davis' most unapologetically “different entry in his vast canon, it might actually be the most ...

Miles Davis: The Complete On The Corner Sessions

by AAJ Italy Staff
December 3, 2007

Immaginate la situazione: è il primo giorno di giugno del 1972. Tardissima mattinata. Il saxofonista Dave Liebman è dal dentista e sta pazientemente attendendo il suo turno. Arriva una telefonata della madre. “Miles Davis sta registrando materiale per il nuovo album negli studi di registrazione della Columbia sulla 52esima strada e ti sta aspettando. Devi correre perché sono già tutti lì”. Dave non se lo fa ripetere due volte, esce dallo studio del suo dentista, prende la macchina, guida a ...