Results for "Miles Davis"

Article: Interview

Rob Mazurek: The Abstractivist

by Marco Iacoboni
April 20, 2026

Dalle registrazioni ambientali dei pesci elettrofori nel Rio delle Amazzoni alle sculture di specchi che catturano l'alba nel deserto di Marfa (Texas), la carriera di Rob Mazurek è un'infinita stratificazione di esperienze. Ha fatto della risonanza la sua bussola, mescolando cornetta, tromba, sintetizzatori modulari, pittura e scultura in un unico, potente, linguaggio. Erede dello ...

Article: Film Review

Köln 75

by Maciej Stasiowski
April 19, 2026

Köln 75One Two Films / Extreme Emotions / Gretchenfilm / MMC Studios Köln GmbHDIrector: Ido Fluk2025 There is a scene mid-way through Ido Fluk's whimsical dramedy that plays like an European art-house tune. Three figures are traveling at night in a tiny Renault 4. Keith Jarrett (musician, played by John Magaro) ...

Article: Book Review

Listen to Prestige Now, Think Later

by Patrick Burnette
April 19, 2026

Listening to Prestige: Chronicling its Classic Jazz Records, 1949-1972 Tad Richards 250 Pages ISBN: 979-8-8558-0495-9 State University of New York Press 2025 Most jazz histories end up focusing on individual musicians, understandably enough. Talk about movements in jazz all you want: dixieland, swing, be-bop, hard-bop. You will end up talking ...

Article: Interview

Charlie Ballantine Establishes Himself on the East Coast

by Robert Middleton
April 18, 2026

Jazz guitarist Charlie Ballantine has been on the move for the past decade. In that time, he's released ten albums, with his first official live recording set to arrive later this month--and another new studio album already finished and waiting in the wings. Originally based in Indianapolis, Ballantine moved to Baltimore in 2022 to ...

Article: Album Review

Cecil Taylor Unit: Fragments: The Complete 1969 Salle Pleyel Concerts

by Dan McClenaghan
April 18, 2026

Cecil Taylor, a pioneer of free jazz, pared down his Cecil Taylor Unit ensemble for a trip through Europe to partake in a 15-date tour in late 1969, in support of the Duke Ellington Orchestra and the Miles Davis Quintet. This foray was billed as the Newport Jazz Festival In Europe. Taylor's Unit of the day--Taylor ...

Article: Album Review

Michel Petrucciani: Kuumbwa

by Pierre Giroux
April 18, 2026

Michel Petrucciani's Kuumbwa is the type of release that reminds us why live jazz recordings still matter. This is not a vault-cleaning exercise, nor just a historical note. Recorded at the Kuumbwa Jazz Center in Santa Cruz, California, in 1987, it is now released by Elemental Music, first as an exclusive two-LP Record Store Day set, ...

Article: Album Review

Mehmet Ali Sanlikol: The Electric Oud Man Speaks And You Listen…

by Kyle Simpler
April 17, 2026

Jazz has long operated with something like an open-door policy, absorbing influences from classical, folk, rock, and beyond. Turkish-American composer Mehmet Ali Sanlikol extends that tradition in a particularly personal way on The Electric Oud Man Speaks...And You Listen, a five-track project that brings Turkish makam, jazz improvisation, and rock energy into a shared musical language.

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Miles Davis and John Coltrane

Featuring the music of Miles Davis
Duration: 08:22
April 12, 2026

Miles Davis and John Coltrane were both born in 1926, and they played together from 1955 to 1960. For a pair that created such iconic albums as Milestones (Columbia Records, 1958) and Kind Of Blue (Jazz Images, 1959), one might expect more stylistic similarity from the two artists. However, their end-of-period recordings shined precisely because of the contrast in improvisational style they had each refined. By the end of the ‘50s, Davis had diminished the amount of bebop he was playing and instead was concentrating on an "in the pocket" cool jazz form, often with lush harmonies. Meanwhile, Coltrane had liberated himself from bop to begin exploration of raw "sheets of sound." This also was modal but in an avant garde way and more focused on a lead horn melody. Dare it be said, their chemistry and eventual breakup feel analogous to the luminescent path of McCartney and Lennon. Here, Davis and 'Trane are joined by Wynton Kelly (piano), Paul Chambers (bass) and Jimmy Cobb (drums), forming one of the greatest jazz ensembles ever. Trumpet and sax solos start at 0:08 and 1:55.

Article: So You Don't Like Jazz

5 Epic Jazz Songs That Forever Changed the World

by Alan Bryson
April 9, 2026

So You Don't Like Jazz normally focuses on ways to turn people on to jazz, but this column focuses on five jazz songs whose impact profoundly changed modern music. In the process they also demonstrated that jazz could be successful in a modern culture dominated by pop, rock & roll, and rhythm & blues. Arguably the ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

New Music from Smith, Wendel, Fraser, Sweenie & More

by Bob Osborne
April 9, 2026

This selection offers a sophisticated journey through the expansive landscape of contemporary and classic jazz, seamlessly blending intricate post-bop textures with avant-garde exploration and orchestral grandeur. From the evocative, cinematic atmospheres to the raw, legendary improvisations, the tracks traverse a broad spectrum of emotional and technical brilliance. Modern leaders provide a fresh dialogue between tradition and ...