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Jazz Musician of the Day: Miles Davis
All About Jazz is celebrating Miles Davis' birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Miles DavisThroughout a professional career lasting 50 years, Miles Davis played the trumpet in a lyrical, introspective, and melodic style, often employing a stemless harmon mute to make his sound more personal and intimate... more ...
Miles Davis' 1970 Fillmore East Concert Available as Free Download
Attention Miles Davis fans: The Web site Big O has a free download of a 1970 Davis concert at the Fillmore East that has never been commercially released.It features two sets from shows that Davis opened for singer/guitarist Neil Young (!) on March 6, 1970, after the initial release of the album Live/Evil but ...
The Stanley Clarke Trio: Jazz In the Garden
by Jeff Winbush
Is there a more prodigiously talented, but more annoyingly inconsistent artist than Stanley Clarke? A trip through the Clarke catalog reveals some brilliant masterpieces, many that are merely okay and a few that are bona fide turkeys. Doing things with an electric bass that no one else can, it's precisely because he is so good that ...
National Endowment for the Arts Announces the 2010 NEA Jazz Masters
Nation's highest honor in jazz is bestowed on eight living legends Washington, DC - The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) today announced the recipients of the 2010 NEA Jazz Masters Award -- the nation's highest honor in this distinctly American music. The eight recipients will each receive a $25,000 grant award and be publicly honored ...
Stan Getz: At The Shrine
by Chris May
This latest reissue in the Verve Originals series--which in early 2009 brought us the superb five-CD box set Stan Getz: The Bossa Nova Albums--tends to be overlooked when lists of tenor saxophonist Stan Getz's early classics are compiled. A 1954 live recording from The Shrine in Los Angeles, it was originally released on Norman Granz's Norgran ...
The Photography of Francis Wolff on Display at WBGO Gallery
WBGO Jazz88.3 FM Presents Photo Exhibition in Honor of Blue Note Records’ 70th Anniversary. As part of WBGO’s continuing celebration of the 70th anniversary of Blue Note Records, the WBGO Gallery presents The Photography of Francis Wolff, an exhibition of iconic photographs by one of Blue Note’s founders, Francis Wolff, now through June 6th at the ...
Top 5 Albums to Blast into Space
When Col. Timothy L. Korpa blasts off for the International Space Station next month, he plans to pack a copy of Echo & The Bunnymens storied 1984 full-length Ocean Rain aboard the space shuttle. Now its official, the bands singer Ian McCulloch told Chartattack. We are the coolest band in the universe. A surprising pick, perhaps, ...
Ximo Tebar: Steps
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Steps, by guitarist extraordinaire Ximo Tebar, may be his most deceptive yet. At first blush, it appears to channel the funky grooves of latter-day Miles Davis and Marcus Miller. But then, with complex melodic invention and accelerated rhythmic accentuation it soon becomes evident that this music embodies an ebullient sound of surprise. If anything, Tebar channels ...
Frank Sinatra: On The Radio: The Lucky Strike "Lite-Up Time" Shows (1949-1950)
by Graham L. Flanagan
With its recently launched Premier Collection, British outfit Acrobat Music makes a strong case for the title of Best Up-and-Coming Label. Along with rare radio sessions by Dave Brubeck, Sarah Vaughan, the classic Miles Davis Quintet and more, one of the highlights of the series has to be an unearthed gem from none other than Frank ...
Nicole Herzog: Time Will Tell
by C. Michael Bailey
Slight and striking, the coquette-voiced German Nicole Herzog has the stones to lead her own septet on Time Will Tell. Rather than opting for a trio or quartet format as her ride, Herzog employs the little big band" concept developed and perfected by Miles Davis with his famous 1949 nonet and 1958 sextet. ...

