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One of the premier bassists in jazz history, Paul Chambers had it all: a beautiful tone, a fluid technique, a great choice of notes, impeccable time and a magnificent sense of swing. He could even take a bowed solo and keep it interesting and in tune. Paul Chambers was born in Pittsburgh in 1935, and grew up in Detroit, where he became part of the city's growing jazz scene. He moved to New York, where he played in the {{J.J. Johnson = 8101}}-{{Kai Winding = 11467}} quintet. He joined Miles Davis' first legendary quintet along with {{John Coltrane = 5851}}, {{"Philly" Joe Jones = 8188}}, and {{Red Garland = 6951}}, at the age of 20
That's Him
Label: Craft Recordings
Released: 2026
Track listing: Strong Man; Happiness is Just a Thing Called Joe; My Man; Tender as a Rose; That's Him; I Must Have That Man; Porgy;
When a Woman Loves a Man; Don't Explain.
Miles '56: The Prestige Recordings
By Miles Davis
Label: Craft Recordings
Released: 2026
Track listing: CD 1: In Your Own Sweet Way (March 16, 1956 version); No Line; Vierd Blues; In Your Own Sweet Way (May 11, 1956 version); Diane; Trane’s Blues; Something I Dreamed Last Night; It Could Happen to You; Woody’n You; Ahmad’s Blues. CD2: Surrey with the Fringe on Top; It Never Entered My Mind; When I Fall in Love; Salt Peanuts; Four; The Theme (Take 1); The Theme (Take 2); If I Were a Bell; Well, You Needn’t. CD3: ’Round Midnight; Half Nelson; You’re My Everything; I Could Write a Book; Oleo; Airegin; Tune Up; When Lights Are Low; Blues by Five; My Funny Valentine.
John Coltrane in Detroit: A Brief History
by Paul Rauch
When the calendar turned to 2026, a spirit of celebration was sparked in the jazz community. It marked one hundred years from the birth dates of two jazz titans in John Coltrane and Miles Davis. Coltrane departed us in 1967 from cancer, a life of barely more than forty years that changed the course of jazz. ...
The Tension Is Where the Music Lives: Miles Davis at 100, Part 3
by Kofi Adjepong-Boateng
Herbie Hancock Celebrates Miles Davis Hollywood Bowl Los Angeles, CA August 19, 2026 The Hollywood Bowl began as a picnic ground called Daisy Dell, a canyon chosen for its acoustics, willed into being largely by women, chief among them Artie Mason Carter, a music teacher who believed music was for everyone ...
Fillmore Dreams, Part 2
by Blue Note Portal
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 The transition was not at all what Xample expected. Dr. Kovac had walked him through the neural integration protocol multiple times. He had read the technical documentation--all 1,400 pages of it. He had sat in the chamber on the seventy-seventh floor, felt the interface nodes calibrate ...
Miles Davis: Miles '56: The Prestige Recordings
by Mark Corroto
The ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus never met Miles Davis, but his famous observation, “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man," seems tailor-made for the trumpeter. Few artists transformed themselves as completely or as often as Davis. Listeners encountering his music today can ...
Miles Davis: Miles '56: The Prestige Recordings
by Mike Jurkovic
Let us imagine for the moment that it is a day or two after the Big Spirit Beyond Wonder has separated the wheat from the chafe. The terrible, unwanted wars have ceased. Global climate change is no longer a threat. Autocracy is in the dustbin of history where it rightfully belongs. Illness has passed. The world, ...
Rafael Enciso: Bassist Intends To Search, Remember And Evolve
by Dean Nardi
Turn your ears on jazz heads, and you'll hear Rafael Enciso and his quartet playing around New York City's five boroughs. And somewhere nearby, someone will surely be listening to his cooling and coiling debut record Crossfades (2025) on Dayna Stephens' Contagious Music label. It slithers down bowling alley lanes and soda pop convenience store aisles ...
Miles Davis At 100: A Global Perspective
by Ian Patterson
Miles Davis' centenary has arrived. The second century begins. What changes jazz has undergone in the 100 years since Miles Dewey Davis was born in Alton, Illinois on May 26, 1926! Davis was all about change, evolution, growth, and reinvention. A driving force behind many of the changes in direction jazz took during his ...
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