Results for "Miles Davis"

Article: Year in Review

2014: The Year in Jazz

by Ken Franckling
January 5, 2015

The year 2014 turned out to be a year noteworthy for its numbers. Newport turned 60, Blue Note turned 75, International Jazz Day's third edition featured 900 events in more than 190 countries. The jazz world lost seven of its NEA Jazz Masters, and New Orleans trumpeter Lionel Ferbos died at 103. Sad but not unexpected, ...

Article: Take Five With...

Take Five with Brad Myers

by AAJ Staff
January 5, 2015

Meet Brad Myers: Brad Myers has spent his life in the pursuit of making music that is tasteful and driven by a deep connection to the soul, regardless of stylish trends or prognosis for financial success. Currently residing in Cincinnati, Ohio, he is an ever evolving improvising musician who has played the guitar since he ...

Article: Rediscovery

Gong: Gazeuse!

by John Kelman
January 2, 2015

Gong Gazeuse! Virgin1976 Today's Rediscovery is Gazeuse! (released in North America as Expresso, by Canterbury-related band Gong, caught in a period of significant transition. The group first came together under the leadership of Australian-born Daevid Allen, an early member of Soft Machine who, after being denied reentry into the ...

Article: Album Review

Rhythm Method: By The Bye

by Ian Patterson
January 1, 2015

Rhythm Method--a quintet of some of Dublin's finest contemporary musicians--was founded by guitarist Shane Latimer and bassist Cormac O'Brien in 2009. Trumpeter Bill Blackmore, Rhodes keyboardist Darragh O'Kelly and Latimer form a probing three-pronged front-line, with O'Brien and drummer Shane O'Donavan plying lithe grooves. The division of labor, however, is not quite that simple, for like ...

Article: Extended Analysis

All of You: The Last Tour 1960

by C. Michael Bailey
January 1, 2015

The problem with Miles Davis' 1960 European Tours has been one of programming. First to know is that Davis toured Europe twice in 1960: the first time with John Coltrane, March 21st to April 109th, and then with Sonny Stitt from September 27th to October 13th. The second thing to know is not every performance of ...

Article: Profile

Herbie Hancock: A Life Of Possibilities

by Chuck Schultz
December 31, 2014

Herbie Hancock is a world treasure. The following are a review of his memoir Possibilities and an interview. The Book Review During more than a half-century in the public eye, Herbie Hancock has been acclaimed as a jazz pianist and composer and an explorer of new musical forms. He rose to fame ...

Article: What is Jazz?

Jazz Meets Death

by Matt Lavelle
December 31, 2014

There once was a great music. It was born in America and branded with the name Jazz. The music was later re-named madam Zzaj, by one of her lovers, the Duke. She grudgingly accepted the moniker of Jazz over the years. It was how she was bought and sold after all. Jazz had several intimate relationships ...

Album

We Want Miles (Bonus Track Version)

By Miles Davis

Label: Columbia Records
Released: 2014
Track listing: Jean-Pierre; Back Seat Betty; Fast Track; Jean-Pierre; Ursula; Aida; My Man’s Gone Now; Kix; Fat Time.

Album

All of You: The Last Tour 1960

By Miles Davis

Label: Acrobat Music
Released: 2014
Track listing: CD1: So What; Fran Dance; All Blues/The Theme; John Coltrane Interview; So What; On Green Dolphin Street. CD2: Walkin’/The Theme; So What; On Green Dolphin Street All Blues/The Theme; So What. CD3: All of You; So What; ‘Round Midnight; Walkin’; So What; If I were a Bell; Fran Dance. CD4: So What; All Blues; The Theme; On Green Dolphin Street; So What; ‘Round Midnight’ Walkin’; The Theme.

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Miles at the Fillmore - Miles Davis 1970: The Bootleg Series Vol. 3

By Miles Davis

Label: Legacy Recordings
Released: 2014
Track listing: CD 1 (Fillmore East, June 17, 1970): Introduction; Directions; The Mask; It's About That Time; Bitches Brew; The Theme; Paraphernalia (bonus track from Fillmore West, April 11, 1970); Footprints (bonus track from Fillmore West, April 11, 1970).

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CD 2 (Fillmore East, June 18, 1970): Directions; The Mask; It's About That Time; Bitches Brew; The Theme; Spanish Key (encore); The Theme.

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CD 3 (Fillmore East, June 19, 1970): Directions; The Mask; It's About That Time; I Fall in Love Too Easily; Sanctuary; Bitches Brew; The Theme; Miles Runs the Voodoo Down (bonus track from Fillmore West, April 11, 1970).

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CD 4 (Fillmore East, June 20, 1970): Directions; The Mask; It's About That Time; I Fall in Love Too Easily; Sanctuary; Bitches Brew; Willie Nelson; The Theme.