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Harvey Brooks (born July 4, 1944, New York City as Harvey Goldstein) is an American bassist. He has played in many styles of music (notably jazz and popular music), and was folk rock's first notable bass guitarist.[citation needed] Brooks came out of a New York music scene that was crackling with activity in the early 1960s. One of the younger players on his instrument, he was a contemporary of Andy Kulberg and other eclectic players in their late teens and early 20s, who saw a way to bridge the styles of folk, blues, rock, and jazz. Columbia Records producer Tom Wilson gave Brooks his first boost to fame when he picked him to play as part of Bob Dylan's backing band on the sessions that yielded the song "Like a Rolling Stone" and the album Highway 61 Revisited �" in contrast to the kind of folkie-electric sound generated by the band on his previous album, Bringing It All Back Home

Article: So You Don't Like Jazz

All About Music—My AAJ Experience

by Alan Bryson
September 8, 2025

Music & Taste Music and food have a lot in common. Variety is the key--without it, even the best prepared food loses its appeal. It is telling that we speak of “musical taste," even though we experience music through our ears. Genres like jazz and classical music weave together themes, patterns, harmonies, and mathematical ...

Album

The Electric Years Box Set

By Miles Davis

Label: Columbia Records / VMP Anthology
Released: 2023

Article: Extended Analysis

Columbia Years 1968-1969

by Maurizio Comandini
August 1, 2016

La piccola ma intraprendente casa discografica statunitense, Light in the Attic, in collaborazione con la major Sony/Columbia, piazza un uppercut formidabile che toglie il velo ad uno dei misteri meglio preservati della discografia del secolo scorso. Vengono infatti pubblicati per la prima volta i cinque brani che Betty Davis, nata Betty Mabry e sposata con Miles ...

Article: Film Review

Michael Bloomfield: From His Head to His Heart to His Hands

by Maurizio Comandini
September 17, 2014

Michael Bloomfield From His Head to His Heart to His Hands Sony Legacy Music 2014 Il ricordo dell'arte chitarristica sopraffina di Mike Bloomfield va adeguatamente tenuto vivo per i molti estimatori, ma anche per le giovani generazioni che non hanno avuto modo di conoscerlo direttamente. Questo è il compito importante ...

Article: Cymbalism

Don Alias and Miles Davis

by Melanie Futorian
March 21, 2012

[Editor's Note: Cymbalism is an All About Jazz column featuring excerpts from an upcoming autobiography on the late, great percussionist Don Alias, co-written by Melanie Futorian, his companion for the last seven years of his life. This installment covers Alias' work on trumpeter Miles Davis' iconic Bitches Brew (Columbia, 1970)]It was [drummer] Tony Williams ...

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Article: Interview

Louie Shelton: In Session

by Alan Bryson
January 27, 2010

Hundreds of millions of people have heard him play without having heard of him. A veteran session guitarist, Louie Shelton played on a slew of million-selling records during his three decades in Los Angeles. His credits include female vocalists such as Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Peggy Lee, Barbra Streisand, Diana Ross, Gladys Knight, and Whitney Houston; ...

Album

Impulsions

By Gilles Rivard

Label: Sonogram
Released: 1975
Track listing: Garder Le Silence; Bachelier; Les Oiseaux Noirs; Derrière Tous Les Visages; En Dedans Comme En Dehors; Un Quart De Siècle; C'é L'Temps; Les Rêves; Je M'en Vais;

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What Ever Happened To The Girl That Was

By Rosalie Sorrels

Label: Big Pink
Released: 1973
Track listing: Just A Country Girl; Nobody's; Roadrunner #2; Too Many Strangers; Come And Be My Driver; Elegant Hobo; First Fall Of Snow; Hall Of Fame; Rock, Salt And Nails; Another Woman's Man; The Toast; Brightwood Fire;

Album

Bitches Brew

By Miles Davis

Label: Sony Records
Released: 1970
Track listing: CD 1: 01. Pharaoh's Dance; 02. Bitches Brew; 03. Spanish Key; 04. John McLaughlin. CD 2: 01. Miles Runs the Voodoo Down; 02. Sanctuary; 03. Spanish Key (alternate take); 04. John McLaughlin (alternate take); 05. Miles Runs The Voodoo Down (single edit); 06. Spanish Key (single edit); 07. Great Expectations (single edit); 08. Little Blue Frog. CD 3: 01. Bill Graham introduction; 02. Directions; 03. Bitches Brew; 04. The Mask; 05. It's About That Time; 06. Sanctuary; 07. Spanish Key/The Theme; 08. Miles Runs The Voodoo Down; 09. Bill Graham outro. DVD 01. Directions; 02. Miles Runs The Voodoo Down; 03. Bitches Brew; 04. Agitation; 05. I Fall In Love Too Easily; 06. Sanctuary; 07. It's About That Time/The Theme.