Results for "Miles Davis"

Miles from India in a Guru Jacket

June 3, 2008

JAZZ REVIEW Miles From India at Grand Performances The performance tries to reconcile disparate musical cultures and sometimes succeeds. Two compelling forces, improvisation and surging rhythms, drove Sunday's Miles From India performance, which opened the 2008 Grand Performances season at California Plaza with an exploration of the commonalities shared by jazz and ...

"Miles from India" for One Night in L.A.

May 31, 2008

Everything is coming up Miles Davis these days: two film projects, remixes, box sets, books galore and “Miles From India," a new release of interpretations of some Miles classics by Indian musicians aided by Miles sidemen. This Sunday, a concert -- one of only three planned nationwide -- seeks to bring that recording project to the ...

Boplicity

Featuring the music of Miles Davis
Duration: 3:42
May 25, 2008

Miles Davis, Miles Smiles, and the Invention of Post Bop

by David Rickert
May 15, 2008

Miles Davis, Miles Smiles, and the Invention of Post Bop Jeremy Yudkin Indiana University Press ISBN: 978-0-253-21952-7 184 pages More books have been written about trumpeter Miles Davis than any other jazz musician, leaving authors who want to tackle him with little option other than to present their ...

The New Yorker's 100 Essential Jazz Albums

May 15, 2008

While finishing “Bird-Watcher," a Profile of the jazz broadcaster and expert Phil Schaap, I thought it might be useful to compile a list of a hundred essential jazz albums, more as a guide for the uninitiated than as a source of quarrelling for the collector. First, I asked Schaap to assemble the list, but, after a ...

The Miles Davis Reader

by Francis Lo Kee
February 2, 2008

The Miles Davis Reader: Interviews and Features from DownBeat Magazine Frank Alkyer Hardcover; 356 pages ISBN: 142343076X Hal Leonard 2007 Miles Davis (1926-1991) was more than a trumpet player and bandleader. He was also well known for his outspoken personality, sometimes viewed as the epitome of ...

Original Album Classics

By Miles Davis

Label: Sony Records
Released: 2007

The Savoy Recordings

By Miles Davis

Label: Sony Records
Released: 2007

Live In France 1969

By Miles Davis

Label: Sony Records
Released: 2007

Chaos Theory -Lost Quintet Last Stage-

By Miles Davis

Label: Sony Records
Released: 2007