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Miles Davis: Bitches Brew 40th Anniversary

Read "Bitches Brew 40th Anniversary" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
December 16, 2010

Lussuria. Se ci fosse una legge che limita ad una sola parola le recensioni dei capolavori, questa sarebbe la nostra scelta per il cofanetto Bitches Brew 40th Anniversary, senza alcun dubbio. Per fortuna una legge del genere (per ora) non c'è e quindi possiamo aggiungere altre riflessioni per raccontare meglio la straordinaria importanza di Bitches Brew nel panorama delle arti di ogni tempo e per sottolineare il senso di meraviglia che questo splendido cofanetto ha suscitato anche in chi di ...

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Album Review

Miles Davis: Bitches Brew: 40th Anniversary Collectors' Edition

Read "Bitches Brew: 40th Anniversary Collectors' Edition" reviewed by Chris M. Slawecki

by Chris M. Slawecki
December 6, 2010

Historic debate over the relevance and merits of trumpeter Miles Davis' seminal jazz-rock fusion masterwork Bitches Brew (Columbia), especially upon this year's 40th anniversary of its original 1970 release, could fill every page of even a paperless internet jazz e-zine (a body of work to which Greg Tate's companion essay adds: “Bitches is a multi-clawed, multi-tentacled, multi-brained creature whose center of gravity never stays preoccupied with one body part for too long"). But one point seems certain: two live performances ...

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Extended Analysis

Miles Davis: Previously Unreleased 1980s Recordings

by Chris May
October 25, 2010

Miles DavisPerfect Way: The Miles Davis Anthology: The Warner Bros. YearsWarner Jazz2010 The composer John Cage related a funny story about an encounter with trumpeter Miles Davis. It happened at a US airport sometime in the mid 1980s. Cage was travelling with the choreographer Merce Cunningham, and the two were waiting in the same holding pen as Davis and his party. Someone pointed Cage and Cunningham out to Davis--then around 60 but ...

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Opinion

Miles: The Autobiography... Two Decades Later

by Victor L. Schermer
September 19, 2010

Miles: The AutobiographyBy Miles Davis with Quincy TroupeNew York: Simon and Schuster Paperbacks, 2005(Originally published in 1989)Miles Davis knew how to keep himself on the radar screen. He did it musically throughout his life, except for a five year period of “silence" when he isolated himself in his Manhattan townhouse, by his own admission musically inert and completely caught up in drugs, alcohol, and sexual escapades, inaccessible to even his closest friends. ...

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Album Review

Miles Davis: Bitches Brew: 40th Anniversary Edition

Read "Bitches Brew: 40th Anniversary Edition" reviewed by Doug Collette

by Doug Collette
August 24, 2010

The 40th anniversary of the groundbreaking fusion album Bitches Brew offers an opportunity to expand upon the context of its original unveiling. The impact of this recognition can't even be mitigated by a collision of commerce and creativity that echoes some of the furor over the original 1970 release. The larger of the two packages follows what has become a template for such releases, the selling points of which include vinyl LPs and a book (including an engrossing ...

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Jazz Art

We Want Miles: A Series of Reinventions

by Greg Masters
June 23, 2010

We Want Miles: Miles Davis vs. Jazz Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Montreal Through August 29, 2010 Treasures await fans of Miles Davis up in Montreal, Canada: Photos, letters, film clips, paintings, instruments, wardrobe and enough information on wall placards to bring visitors on the full journey through the life and times of one of America's greatest artists. For anyone who has read a biography of Davis, there are ...

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Multiple Reviews

Miles of Miles: Nefertiti, In a Silent Way & Bitches Brew

by Russ Musto
May 15, 2010

Miles DavisNefertitiSony-Legacy2009 Miles DavisIn a Silent WaySony-Legacy2009 Miles DavisBitches BrewSony-Legacy2009 Taken together, Nefertiti, In A Silent Way and Bitches Brew, recorded over a period of slightly more than two years from June of 1967 to August of 1969, present a reasonably representational overview of the (r)evolution ...