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Miles Davis

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Throughout a professional career lasting 50 years, Miles Davisplayed the trumpet in a lyrical, introspective, and melodicstyle, often employing a stemless harmon mute to make hissound more personal and intimate. But if his approach to hisinstrument was constant, his approach to jazz was dazzlinglyprotean. To examine his career is to examine the history ofjazz from the mid-'40s to the early '90s, since he was in thethick of almost every important innovation and stylisticdevelopment in the music during that period, and he often ledthe way in those changes, both with his own performancesand recordings and by choosing sidemen and collaboratorswho forged the new directions. It can even be argued that jazzstopped evolving when Davis wasn't there to push it forward.

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Doo-Bop-A-Lu-Wah: The Musical!

Label: Kick-a-Verse
Released: 2025
Track listing: Overture; The Doo-Bop Song; Chocolate Chip; Chocolate Chip (reprise); Rappin' Is Fun-damental; Vanilla Brownie; Duke's Beauty; Sonya (and Jane and Loretta and Alice); On the Next Corner; Blow; My Funny Snickerdoodle; I Said Hands Off My Chocolate Chips, Mothe$(@*&^%#; Mystery; Fun-Damentally Freaky; Fantasy; The Next Mystery; Another Doo-Bop Song (I Mean It (Again)); Softly As In a Morning Sunrise.

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Miles '55: The Prestige Recordings

Label: Craft Recordings
Released: 2025
Track listing: I Didn't; Will You Still Be Mine; I See Your Face Before Me; A Night in Tunisia; A Gal in Calico; Dr. Jackle; Bitty Ditty; Minor March; Changes; Stablemates; How Am I To Know/ Just Squeeze Me; There Is No Greater Love; The Theme; S'posin.

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Article: Multiple Reviews

The "Jazz Detective" Finds A New Muse, Reissues Lost Classics

Read "The "Jazz Detective" Finds A New Muse, Reissues Lost Classics" reviewed by Joshua Weiner


Joe Fields (1929-2017) was a jazz producer and record executive who worked for Columbia, MGM, Verve, and, most impactfully, at Prestige in the 1950s and 1960s. Shortly after Prestige was sold to Fantasy in 1971, ending a classic era for the storied label, Fields founded Muse Records to document the next phase in jazz. Muse brought ...

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Article: Album Review

Ted Piltzecker: Peace Vibes

Read "Peace Vibes" reviewed by Jack Bowers


With the world desperately in need of more Peace Vibes in these times of seemingly endless strife and division, vibraphonist Ted Piltzecker is happy to oblige, putting his Colorado-based “quartet" to work on the problem via a series of bright and handsome themes whose gracefulness and charm are designed to calm even the most savage beast. ...

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Article: Album Review

Yakir Arbib & Conti Bilong: Afro Baroque

Read "Afro Baroque" reviewed by Neil Duggan


The fusion of jazz, baroque piano, vocals and traditional Central African and Middle Eastern rhythms might sound like an ambitious overreach, with too many influences competing for space. Yet Afro Baroque proves that what could have been a chaotic collision of styles instead shows how rhythm, melody and cultural expression can complement each other to produce ...

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Article: Album Review

Christy Doran's May 95 Sextet: Same But Different

Read "Same But Different" reviewed by Ian Patterson


Curse or blessing? A festival handing a musician carte blanche for a one-off adventure sounds liberating, but the allure of artistic freedom can be tempered by pressure: what if the personalities do not gel? What if it bombs? Christy Doran, the Ireland-born Lucerne-based guitarist, has never been one to dodge a challenge. His entire ...

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Article: Album Review

Jim Witzel Quartet: Very Early (Remembering Bill Evans)

Read "Very Early (Remembering Bill Evans)" reviewed by Pierre Giroux


Guitarist Jim Witzel's Very Early (Remembering Bill Evans) serves as both a heartfelt homage and a poetic reinterpretation of the pianist's timeless work. Joined by pianist Phil Aaron, bassist Dan Feiszli, and drummer Jason Lewis, Witzel approaches this project with the qualities that define Evans' artistry: lyricism, subtle interplay, and harmonic sophistication, all while maintaining his ...

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Article: Live Review

Nels Cline Consentrik Quartet at Littlefield

Read "Nels Cline Consentrik Quartet at Littlefield" reviewed by Max Kutner


Nels Cline Consentrik Quartet Littlefield Brooklyn, NY October 1, 2025 Nels Cline's Consentrik Quartet returned to the stage to make a rare Brooklyn appearance at Littlefield. The formidable ensemble also included saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock, bassist Chris Lightcap and drummer Tom Rainey. One of the most striking aspects of the group is ...

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Article: Take Five With...

Take Five with Pianist & Guitarist Justin Fitzgerald

Read "Take Five with Pianist & Guitarist Justin Fitzgerald" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Meet Justin Fitzgerald I think of myself primarily as a composer, and jazz is my favorite form of music to write. I've always been surrounded by music--my mother was an opera singer before I was born, my wife is a singer, and her father was a skilled guitarist.I used to perform in restaurants and ...


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