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Early '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 ...
Continue ReadingMiles Davis Quintet: 2nd Session 1956 Revisited
by Chris May
Rough round the edges some of the performances might be, but that is part of their real-time, first-take charm. The twelve tracks collected on 2nd Session 1956 Revisited are, nonetheless, arguably the most perfect Miles Davis ever recorded. Over the years they have been issued and reissued, anthologised and repackaged, almost as often as Louis Armstrong's Hot Fives and Hot Sevens. But never with as much attention to sonic detail as on this album, remastered by the ezz-thetics label's Michael ...
Continue ReadingLive recordings from Miles Davis John McLaughlin and Alex Machacek
by Len Davis
Live recordings from Miles Davis from The Bootleg Series Vol 7, John McLaughlin, from The Heart of Things-Live in Paris and Alex Machacek from The New Universe Music Festival 2010.Playlist Miles Davis “Katia" from The Bootleg Series Vol 7(Columbia) 00:00 Miles Davis “Miles Runs The Voodoo Down" from Miles at Filmore 1970 (Columbia) 11.00 Alex Machacek “Strafe" from The New Universe Music Festivalo (Abstract Logix) 22:05 John McLaughlin “Acid Jazz" from The Heart of Things-Live in Paris (Verve) ...
Continue ReadingMiles Davis Quintet: Live Europe 1960 Revisited
by Chris May
A high proportion of the studio albums recorded by Miles Davis from the mid 1950s until Bitches Brew (Columbia) in 1970 are landmark ones, so frequent and so momentous were the occasions on which Davis adjusted his direction. With a few exceptions, notably My Funny Valentine (Columbia, 1964), this is less true of the live albums until the early 1970s, when Davis' live performances increasingly anticipated changes later heard on studio recordings, especially as regards his choices of repertoire.
Continue ReadingSam, Miles and Trane
by Bob Osborne
For the 500th episode of the World of Jazz show some of my favourite musicians with a focus on Sam Rivers, a new album from Nate Wooley, and a selection of music from Miles Davis and John Coltrane. To kick off jazz meets afrobeat in 1972 with Hugh Masakela. Playlist Show Intro 00:00 Hugh Masakela “Part Of The Whole" from Home Is Where the Music Is (Chisa/Blue Thumb) 00:42 Nate Wooley “(... ..)" from Ancient Songs of Burlap ...
Continue ReadingMiles Davis: Bitches Brew
by Mick Raubenheimer
Bitches Brew, (Columbia, 1970) 52 years old this year, can be seen as the elder statesman of jazz fusion, but old it is not, trapped, or rather insulated as it is in its youthfully electric vortex. This ink is daunting. In preparing to tease this retrospective into view, I am listening to Bitches Brew for the first time in a long, highly eventful decade. And the opening strains, instructively, and deceptively placid (the proverbial ellipse preceding rupture), displace me: I ...
Continue ReadingMilestones: Miles Davis Pre 1960 And His Collaborators
by David Brown
This week, a mix to mirror book one of the 1983 Miles Davis biography by Jack Chambers that I'm reading. Two full hours, celebrating the music of Miles and his collaborators pre-1960. Playlist Thelonious Monk “Esistrophy (Theme)" from Live at the It Club-Complete (Columbia) 01:30 Miles Davis Quintet “Milestones" from single (Columbia) 02:20 Lee Konitz Sextet “Ezz-Thetic" from single (Prestige) 07:50 George Russell Sextet “Nardis" from Ezz-Thetics (Riverside) 10:41 Miles Davis Quintet “'Round Midnight" from “Round About Midnight ...
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