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Miles Davis: Merci Miles! Live at Vienne
by Ian Patterson
So great was Miles Davis' legend, so magnetic his aura, that the crowds and the adulation only increased towards the end of his lifea period when he was playing arguably the least progressive music of his career. This double-CD recording of a concert at the Jazz à Vienne Festival from 1991 is a case in point. Ten thousand people packed into the Roman amphitheatre that July evening, while another two-and-a-half thousand who had turned up without tickets were shepherded onto ...
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by Maurizio Comandini
Miles Davis ha sempre avuto un rapporto speciale con la Francia. Il suo primo tour in Europa, a maggio del 1949, lo vide proprio protagonista a Parigi con il quintetto che lo vedeva co-leader assieme al pianista Tadd Dameron. Miles era poco più che ventenne e subito fu adorato dagli artisti che si radunavano alla corte del filosofo Jean-Paul Sartre per condividere i principi dell'esistenzialismo. Il trombettista rimase colpito dalla bellezza di Juliette Greco che ricambiò appassionatamente e diventò la ...
read morePeter Karp and Sue Foley Collaborate on New CD and Tour
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Just Roots PR
Blind Pig Records has announced the signing of U.S. singer/songwriter Peter Karp and Canadian Juno award winner Sue Foley for a joint recording project entitled He Said - She Said."
He Said - She Said" is an inspired collaboration of original songs adapted from correspondence the two shared through letters written over a two year period.
These letters started as a casual exchange between two committed performers sharing their common bond of the loneliness of the road, the pain of ...
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The Replacements Drummer Steve Foley Dead at 49
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All About Jazz
Drummer Steve Foley, who played drums on the Replacements' final All Shook Down tour, died last weekend in Minneapolis after accidentally overdosing on prescription medicine. He was 49.
Foley was recruited to join the Replacements after original drummer Chris Mars left following the All Shook Down sessions. Foley joined the band after meeting Paul Westerberg and Tommy Stinson in a bar and offered them a ride. When they got in the car, they noticed a copy of All Shook Down, ...
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