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Miles Davis' Influence On Jazz Piano, Jazz Composition, And Jazz Leadership
by DIG 9000
Miles Davis is widely regarded as one of the most important figures in the history of jazz music. Over the course of his career, he had a significant impact on jazz piano, jazz composition, and jazz leadership. Here is a closer look at Davis' influence in these three areas. Jazz Piano Davis was a trumpet player, but his influence on jazz piano cannot be overstated. He worked with some of the best pianists in the business, including Bill ...
Continue ReadingMiles Davis: Miles Davis With Tadd Dameron Revisited
by Chris May
1949 was a year of massive change for Miles Davis, and not in a good way. It began, in January, with him fronting the first of the recording sessions, made with a nonet, that became generically known as The Birth Of The Cool and which, if he had achieved nothing else of note, would have secured him a lasting place in jazz history. It ended with him strung out on heroin, a habit that reversed his ascent and which took ...
Continue ReadingHow Do You Rate Miles Davis’ Music, On Record and Live, In The 1980s?
by Ian Patterson
The release of The Bootleg Series Vol. 7: That's What Happened 1982-1985 invites renewed reflection on Miles Davis' music in the 1980s. A few tracks aside, these studio outtakes from the recording sessions that produced Star People (Columbia, 1983), Decoy (Columbia, 1984) and You're Under Arrest (Columbia, 1985) don't amount to a whole heap of beans, which is hardly surprising if they were not good enough to make the official album releases. But the previously unreleased live album ...
Continue ReadingMiles Davis: The Bootleg Series Vol. 7 That's What Happened 1982-1985
by Ian Patterson
Eventually the steam roller that is the Miles Davis Bootleg Series was going to trundle into the trumpeter's 1980s comeback era. The preceding six volumes in this series have all been uniformly excellent--essential listening for the Davis completist. Volume 7, however, does not reach those heights. It is an uneven bag, much like Davis's 1980s output you might say. In a nutshell, there are three discs. The first two are studio outtakes from the Star People (Columbia, ...
Continue ReadingMiles Davis Quintets: Stockholm 1967 & 1969 Revisited
by Mark Corroto
Let me ask you, how many versions of Miles Davis do you recognize? Let us employ the word 'recognize' in terms of both, to identify and to approve. Listeners new to the world of Miles would be hard pressed to associate the artist seen and heard with Charlie Parker at New York's Three Deuces in 1947 with the same man performing in Montreux, Switzerland some forty years later. Both his look and his sound had changed, making him unrecognizable to ...
Continue ReadingBye Bye Blackbird
by Dan McClenaghan
Carter Johnson quad-caned his way out to his patio with a glass of whiskey and water in his hand, ice cubes tinkling like piano notes as he did his damnedest not to spill a drop. The cane steadied his unsteady gait. The whiskey had been measured out parsimoniously by Carter's wife, Olivia. In her mind, a weak drink or two wouldn't hurt her husband, and it might help him wrap his head around his situation of diminished verbosity and mobility. ...
Continue ReadingEarly '80s Miles & More
by Bob Osborne
On this show music from a box set of Miles Davis recordings from the early '80s, plus new albums from Vladimir Samardžić, Seajun Kwon, Nichunimu, Avi Adrian, and Matt Gill, and a single from the new album from Timo Vollbrecht. Playlist Show Intro 00:00 Miles Davis “Santana" from That's What Happened 1982-1985: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 7 (Columbia Legacy) 00:50 Vladimir Samardžić “Grisignana Part I (Night)" from Catching The Wind (SKC NS) 14:29 SeaJun Kwon “Commune" from Micro ...
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