Jazz Articles about Miles Davis

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 ...

Thanks for Covering Every Corner

by Chris M. Slawecki
November 29, 2007

Dear Miles,

It's hard to believe that you've already been gone for sixteen years now. And I know you don't miss much from your perch up there, but I wanted to make sure that you knew what we've been doing with your music down here, in case you and Hendrix have been busy working out changes with Monk or something and missed it.

In August, Columbia/Legacy released Evolution of the Groove. Your nephew Vince Wilburn Jr. ...

The Complete On The Corner Sessions

by John Kelman
November 28, 2007

Much has been written about what is perhaps trumpeter Miles Davis' most controversial album, On The Corner (Columbia, 1972). Already shaken from the electric onslaught of Bitches Brew (Columbia, 1969), A Tribute To Jack Johnson (Columbia, 1970), and a series of live or, in the case of Live-Evil (Columbia, 1970), largely live releases, it was the album that finally sent most jazz critics running for the hills, but not before weighing in with strong condemnation of what was universally considered ...

Miles Davis: The Complete On The Corner Sessions

by Doug Collette
November 12, 2007

Encased and bound in metal, its colorful artwork raised on the surface of the outer box, The Complete On The Corner Sessions documents the final studio recordings of the late Miles Davis before he went on his hiatus from the mid-seventies to early eighties. This six-CD set depicts how skillfully the man with the horn expanded his skill as a bandleader and recording artist by drawing on the skills of others with complementary talent.

The garish hot pink and blue ...

Miles Davis: Live at the 1963 Monterey Jazz Festival

by AAJ Italy Staff
November 6, 2007

Il concerto che si tenne il 20 settembre del 1963 ai Fairgrounds di Monterey, in una California alle prese con le prime avvisaglie dei nuovi fermenti che matureranno di lì a qualche anno, è una eccellente dimostrazione di come Miles sapesse guardarsi attorno e risolvere i problemi di formazione immettendo nel suo quintetto elementi giovanissimi di grande valore. Il caso esemplare è rappresentato da Tony Williams, il batterista allora diciassettenne che si apprestava a trasformare radicalmente l’approccio al suo strumento, ...

Miles Davis: The Complete On The Corner Sessions

by Greg Masters
October 31, 2007

“There is no architecture and no build-up. Just a vivid, uninterrupted succession of colors, rhythms and moods." --Arnold Schoenberg describing his Five Pieces For Orchestra in a letter to Richard Strauss, 1909, quoted in The Rest Is Noise, Alex Ross (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007) Miles DavisThe Complete On The Corner SessionsSony-Legacy Music2007 The music that trumpeter Miles Davis forged in the first half of the 1970s, his ...