Results for "Miles Davis"

The Complete On The Corner Sessions

by John Kelman
November 28, 2007

Much has been written about what is perhaps trumpeter Miles Davis' most controversial album, On The Corner (Columbia, 1972). Already shaken from the electric onslaught of Bitches Brew (Columbia, 1969), A Tribute To Jack Johnson (Columbia, 1970), and a series of live or, in the case of Live-Evil (Columbia, 1970), largely live releases, it was the ...

Jazz Museum Events: Miles Davis on Film, November 20, 2007

November 19, 2007

The National Jazz Museum in Harlem 104 East 126th Street New York, NY 10035 212 348-8300 Miles Davis on Film November 20, 2007, 7pm In previous weeks the Jazz Museum featured big band swing by Duke Ellington and Count Basie. This week, Jazz Film Month continues with a ...

Miles Davis: The Complete On The Corner Sessions

by Doug Collette
November 12, 2007

Encased and bound in metal, its colorful artwork raised on the surface of the outer box, The Complete On The Corner Sessions documents the final studio recordings of the late Miles Davis before he went on his hiatus from the mid-seventies to early eighties. This six-CD set depicts how skillfully the man with the horn expanded ...

Miles Davis: Live at the 1963 Monterey Jazz Festival

by AAJ Italy Staff
November 6, 2007

Il concerto che si tenne il 20 settembre del 1963 ai Fairgrounds di Monterey, in una California alle prese con le prime avvisaglie dei nuovi fermenti che matureranno di lì a qualche anno, è una eccellente dimostrazione di come Miles sapesse guardarsi attorno e risolvere i problemi di formazione immettendo nel suo quintetto elementi giovanissimi di ...

The Complete On The Corner Sessions

by Greg Masters
October 31, 2007

“There is no architecture and no build-up. Just a vivid, uninterrupted succession of colors, rhythms and moods." --Arnold Schoenberg describing his Five Pieces For Orchestra in a letter to Richard Strauss, 1909, quoted in The Rest Is Noise, Alex Ross (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007) The music that trumpeter Miles Davis forged in the first ...

Miles Davis: Miles Davis: Live at the 1963 Monterey Jazz Festival

by Samuel Chell
October 27, 2007

This recording is so fresh and alive sonically and so rich and rewarding musically that forty-five years literally melt away upon hearing it. One doesn't know whether to express gratitude to the producers for releasing a recorded event of such historic significance and rare beauty, or annoyance at those responsible for keeping it on ice for ...

Orchestre National de Jazz: Electrique

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
July 4, 2007

In the wake of the magnificent Close to Heaven (Le Chant du Monde, 2006), the French national jazz orchestra's tribute to the Led Zeppelin songbook, musical director Franck Tortiller found himself attracted to the early 1970s plugged-in jazz-rock fusion of the Headhunters, Weather Report and Lifetime. The result is Electrique. That's his story, anyway, and it's ...

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Featuring the music of Miles Davis
Duration: 5:52
May 26, 2007

Miles Davis: The Very Best of Miles Davis: The Warner Bros. Sessions 1985-1991

by John Kelman
April 14, 2007

Miles Davis' final decade was filled with controversy. Accusations of “sell-out became even more vehement in 1985 when, after thirty years with Columbia, the late trumpeter jumped ship and signed with Warner Bros. That said, he issued two highly successful studio albums, participated on two soundtracks, and hit the road hard with a series of must-see ...

Miles Davis Quintet: Cookin'

by Martin Gladu
March 26, 2007

Miles Davis dared to be different. Staying true to his lifelong pugilistic passion/inspiration, he shook the jazz world many times throughout his career. To many he is remembered as the Prince Of Darkness, the raspy-voiced and hip-ly dressed maverick that poured out cool licks from his Harmon-muted red trumpet. But, above and beyond his larger-than-life persona ...