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Article: Album Review

Naked Truth: Ouroboros

Read "Ouroboros" reviewed by Jeff Dayton-Johnson

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
January 9, 2013

With apologies to the late guitarist Pete Cosey (who led a band by the name), the members of Naked Truth are bona fide “children of Agharta." That is, the group--led by bassist-guitarist Lorenzo Feliciati--has absorbed and adapted the lessons of trumpeter Miles Davis's exhausting, tectonic live recording Agharta (Columbia, 1975) so well that Davis' disc can ...

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Article: Film Review

Miles Davis: The Definitive Miles Davis at Montreux DVD Collection 1973-1991

by John Kelman
November 8, 2011

Miles Davis Miles! The Definitive Miles Davis at Montreux DVD Collection 1973-1991 Eagle Eye Media 2011With the release of Live at Montreux: Highlights 1973-1991 (Eagle Eye Media, 2011) a couple of months back, notice was served of a much more ambitious collection, bringing together all of Miles Davis' concerts at the ...

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Article: Film Review

Miles Davis: Live at Montreux - Highlights 1973-1991

by John Kelman
July 27, 2011

Miles DavisLive at Montreux--Highlights 1973-1991 Eagle Eye Media2011 When Miles Davis plugged in towards the end of the 1960s, it may have been a huge shot fired across the bow of the jazz intelligentsia, who loudly cried foul and began the first of many accusations of “selling ...

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News: Recording

40th Anniversary of Marvin Gaye's Landmark "What's Going On" Celebrated with Super Deluxe Edition & Events

May 18, 2011

On May 21, 1971, Motown Records released an album unique to its vast, already classic catalog: a suite of protest songs, railing, albeit softly and with an undeniable groove, about the planet's woes and the pain of war. With What's Going On, Marvin Gaye forever changed the sound and subject matter of popular music, influencing and ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Yo Miles! Revisited: Lightning and Shinjuku

by John Kelman
March 14, 2011

Amongst the plethora of tributes to trumpet icon Miles Davis' electric period on Columbia, beginning with 1969's In a Silent Way and ending with 1975's Agharta and Pangaea, only a few stand out as being truly reverential--not just to the electrified energy and jungle funk of the music, but to its undeniably avant leanings as well. ...

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News: Website

All About Jazz Musician Database Tops 24,000 Profiles

June 18, 2010

The All About Jazz Musician Center is growing by the day and has just eclipsed 24,000 musician profiles. AAJ profiles work a little like Wikipedia, where musicians, fans, industry folks can create and maintain them. Most of the profiles are created by an individual, but we now create skeleton profiles from CD reviews and calendar date ...

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Article: Album Review

Iron Kim Style: Iron Kim Style

Read "Iron Kim Style" reviewed by Nic Jones

by Nic Jones
May 2, 2010

It could be argued that the music Miles Davis was cutting about forty years ago still casts a shadow. Iron Kim Style stands in its shade, and for all of the original, offbeat stuff going on it's hard to shake the impression. According to the slipcase, all the music was freely improvised, which might be a ...

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News: Recording

Top Ten Electric Miles Davis Recordings

February 8, 2010

I decided to list my top ten favorite Miles Davis recordings of the electric period. Miles is not just one of the biggest musicians of all time, but one of the biggest artists of all time—regardless of discipline. His entire career output is of the highest quality, extremely forward thinking, and extremely varied. I am a ...

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Article: Interview

Badal Roy: Keeping the Groove

by Chris Kompanek
July 17, 2009

India-born tabla player Badal Roy has spent the past four decades playing with some of jazz's greatest giants, including John McLaughlin, Miles Davis and Ornette Coleman. He has been playing with fellow On the Corner alum Michael Henderson, as part of the Miles from India tour. Backstage before a recent concert at the Iridium in New ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Michael Henderson Begins Summer Tour 2008 in Hotlanta

July 3, 2008

Internationally Acclaimed Fusion/Funk/Jazz, R&B Singer/Songwriter, Bass Player Extraordinaire, and Producer Michael Henderson is one of today's most enduring personalities in the entertainment business! His unique vocal power, ability and charismatic persona make him one of the most respected, admired, loved and sought after performers in modern popular music! Henderson takes the stage at Georgia's 7th Annual ...