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Buddy Miles

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Best known as the drummer in Jimi Hendrix's Band of Gypsys, Buddy Miles also had a lengthy solo career that drew from rock, blues, soul, and funk in varying combinations. Born George Miles in Omaha, NE, on September 5, 1947, he started playing the drums at age nine, and joined his father's jazz band the Bebops as a mere 12 year old. As a teenager, he went on to play with several jazz and R&B outfits, most prominently backing vocal groups like Ruby & the Romantics, the Ink Spots, and the Delfonics. In 1966, he joined Wilson Pickett's touring revue, where he was spotted by blues-rock guitarist Mike Bloomfield

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Article: Album Review

Mitch Towne: Refuge

Read "Refuge" reviewed by Kyle Simpler


After organ trios came to prominence during the 1950s, jazz groove has never been the same. Performers like Jack McDuff, Jimmy McGriff, and most notably Jimmy Smith introduced a new level of soul to jazz music. With Refuge, organist Mitch Towne makes a compelling debut as a leader, adding his name to a who's who of ...

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Electric Lady Studios: A Jimi Hendrix Vision

Label: Experience Hendrix/Legacy Recordings
Released: 2024
Track listing: CD 1: Ezy Ryder; Valleys Of Neptune; Straight Ahead; Drifter’s Escape; Astro Man; Astro Man; Drifting; Night Bird Flying; Farther Up The Road; The Long Medley [Astro Man / Beginnings / Hey Baby (New Rising Sun) / Midnight Lightning (Keep On Groovin’) / Freedom. CD 2: Earth Blues; Dolly Dagger; Angel; Beginning; Lover Man; Tune X/Just Came In; Heaven Has No Sorrow; Freedom; Valleys Of Neptune; Come Down Hard On Me; Dolly Dagger; Messing Around; Tune X/Just Came In; Drifting; Freedom; Belly Button Window. CD 3: Dolly Dagger; Night Bird Flying; Freedom; Midnight Lightning/Beginnings; Straight Ahead; In From The Storm; Bolero / Hey Baby (New Rising Sun); Drifter’s Escape; Astro Man; Bleeding Heart; Drifting; Angel. Blu-ray (with both vinyl and CD versions of package): First Rays of the New Rising Sun Bonus Tracks 5.1 Mixes; Electric Lady Studios: A Jimi Hendrix Vision (film).

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Article: Album Review

Jimi Hendrix: Electric Lady Studios: A Jimi Hendrix Vision

Read "Electric Lady Studios: A Jimi Hendrix Vision" reviewed by Doug Collette


Dyed-in-the-wool cynics, Jimi Hendrix fans or not, may well perceive Electric Lady Studios: A Jimi Hendrix Vision as a thinly-veiled means to camouflage the reality that the late guitar hero's vault may have been archived to its fullest possible extent. But the film at the heart of the collection acts as a prism of sorts, shedding ...

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Article: Book Review

Jimi by Janie Hendrix and John McDermott

Read "Jimi by Janie Hendrix and John McDermott" reviewed by Doug Collette


Jimi Janie Hendrix and John McDermott 320 Pages ISBN: # 978-1797220017 Chronicle Chroma 2022 Released to coincide with what would have been Jimi Hendrix's 80th birthday, this archetypal coffee table book is yet another in a long line of biographies recounting the life and times of the archetypal guitar ...

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Article: Interview

Benjamin Koppel: Curiosity Won't Kill This Cat

Read "Benjamin Koppel: Curiosity Won't Kill This Cat" reviewed by R.J. DeLuke


Benjamin Koppel is an extraordinary Danish musician from an illustrious music family. He is all about music—of just about any kind. He's always absorbing it, discovering what there is to derive from it. A kind of restless desire to explore envelops him. He simplifies it in his own words: he's curious. It comes naturally to him. ...

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Article: Book Review

Hear My Train A Comin': The Songs Of Jimi Hendrix

Read "Hear My Train A Comin': The Songs Of Jimi Hendrix" reviewed by Ian Patterson


Hear My Train A Comin':The Songs Of Jimi Hendrix Kevin Le Gendre 240 Pages ISBN: 97818000500143 Equinox 2020 Few artists have burned as briefly and brightly as Jimi Hendrix, the Afro-American guitarist and singer who set the late 1960s alight with his virtuosity and showmanship. Fifty years after he ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Benjamin Koppel: Room to Roam

Read "Benjamin Koppel: Room to Roam" reviewed by Doug Collette


In his two simultaneously-released double CDs, Danish saxophonist Benjamin Koppel illustrates how fine a line exists between authentic rhythm and blues and healthily-improvised jazz. It might otherwise go without saying it takes the caliber of world-class singers and players to traverse such broad and fertile territory-- bassist Scott Colley and trumpeter Randy Brecker are just two—but, ...

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Article: Live Review

Jazzkaar 2020

Read "Jazzkaar 2020" reviewed by Martin Longley


Jazzkaar Tallinn, Estonia October 9-13, 2020 In this year of cancellations and postponements, the Jazzkaar festival opted to jump from April to October, successfully presenting a shorter version that nevertheless managed to include between four and six sets on most of its days. Giant-size American artists were unavoidably absent, but ...

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Article: Book Review

Guitar King: Michael Bloomfield's Life in the Blues

Read "Guitar King: Michael Bloomfield's Life in the Blues" reviewed by Doug Collette


Guitar King: Michael Bloomfield's Life in the Blues David Dann 776 Pages ISBN: #978-1477318775 University of Texas Press 2019 Through a combination of journalistic objectivity, scholarly attention to detail and the passion of a fan, author David Dann accomplishes exactly what he professes to achieve in his 'Prologue' to ...


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