Results for "Milestones"

Strange Bedfellows: Jazz and Pop and Heinrich Schenker?

by Kurt Ellenberger
March 27, 2024

I. A Brief Introduction to Schenkerian Analysis Heinrich Schenker (1868-1935) was an Austrian musician, composer, and most notably, music theorist whose ideas about analyzing and explaining music were groundbreaking and successful. Along with other mathematically oriented theories, like Allen Forte's “Set Theory" and Arnold Schoenberg's “Serialism," Schenker's theories were very popular in academia. These theories were ...

Alessandro Bertozzi

Born: January 25, 1965

Alessandro Bertozzi ha pubblicato numerosi album da solista, il suo primo disco, Big city dreamer, è stato pubblicato nel 1998. Il disco è stato registrato in Italia con la collaborazione di Alberto Tafuri, Lorenzo Poli, Enzo Zirilli, Franco Cristaldi e Alberto Venturini. Nel 2003 ha pubblicato il suo secondo album, Talkin'back. Il disco è stato registrato a New York e ha visto la partecipazione di ospiti americani come Bob James e Hiram Bullock, e ha portato Bertozzi a suonare al Blue Note di New York. Nel 2009 ha pubblicato il suo terzo album, Crystals. Il disco, prodotto da Lorenzo Poli, ha visto la partecipazione di alcuni strumentisti della musica internazionale tra i quali John Patitucci, Andrea Braido, Randy Brecker e Hiram Bullock.

Brian Czach

Born: October 8, 1976

Nashville session drummer Brian Czach (pronounced "Zack") is currently playing sessions and live shows around Music City. Czach has devoted his life to being as creative and versatile anyone with a pair of sticks could hope to be. Born in Schenectady NY, he has experience playing in every imaginable musical setting, from live shows, film & TV scores, artist sessions, tours, dance bands, and live theater, Brian’s musical experience is vastly extensive. With a BA in percussion performance from Ithaca College (’98), Brian moved to New York City in 2001, where he toured internationally and played nearly every major jazz club in the USA (including Birdland & Blue Note) with Tony DeSare and recorded 3 records (Telarc Records)

Miles Davis: Milestones

by C. Michael Bailey
July 31, 2017

Milestones was Miles Davis' third Columbia release after 'Round About Midnight (1957) and Miles Ahead (1957). The recording was made during one of Davis' most creatively intense periods, preceding his recording of the soundtrack for Ascenseur Pour L'echafaud (Fontana, 1958) in late 1957 and the subsequent recordings of Cannonball Adderley's Somethin' Else (Blue Note, 1958) and ...

Milestones

Featuring the music of Lionel Hampton
Duration: 6:05
September 27, 2009

Milestones

By Miles Davis

Label: Columbia Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: Dr. Jackle; Sid

Miles Davis: Milestones

by Jim Santella
April 1, 2001

The calibre of personnel Miles Davis enlisted for his Sextet was the very best. Davis knew he couldn't keep this unit together for long. It was obvious to him that each was developing into a sensation. This was 1958, and history was being made with the emergence of Davis' modal sound. His sweet, open trumpet tone ...

Milestones

By Michael Weiss

Label: SteepleChase Records
Released: 1999

Michael Weiss: Milestones

by C. Andrew Hovan
October 1, 1999

One of many yeoman New York musicians who goes about his work without much fanfare, pianist Michael Weiss is certainly one of the city's finest despite his low profile. Since 1981, he has been an active jazz educator and musician who has spent time with such masters as Art Farmer, Johnny Griffin, and Junior Cook. With ...

Milestones

By Miles Davis

Label: Sony Records
Released: 1998