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Yo Miles! Revisited: Lightning and Shinjuku

by John Kelman
March 14, 2011

Amongst the plethora of tributes to trumpet icon Miles Davis' electric period on Columbia, beginning with 1969's In a Silent Way and ending with 1975's Agharta and Pangaea, only a few stand out as being truly reverential--not just to the electrified energy and jungle funk of the music, but to its undeniably avant leanings as well. ...

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Steve Smith and Vital Information: Vitalive!

Read "Vitalive!" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
November 25, 2009

Recorded on tour in 1988 and originally released in 1991, Vitalive! is, in the words of drummer Steve Smith, “the most 'jazz' version of Vital Information to date." It would be easy to argue with Smith, even though he's the group's leader, that VI has always been a jazz band, as evidenced by Come On In ...

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From Me to You

By Tom Coster

Label: Samson Music
Released: 1990

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Tom Coster: Ivory Expedition

Read "Ivory Expedition" reviewed by Dave Hughes

by Dave Hughes
November 1, 1999

This CD presents two albums recorded by Tom Coster in 1981 and 1983. These sessions took place just a few years after Coster's six-year stint with Santana. Many hints of the music Coster composed and performed with Santana show through on some songs, such as the ballads "Magical Moments" and "I Give My Heart to You", ...

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Ivory Expedition

By Tom Coster

Label: Fantasy Jazz
Released: 1998
Track listing: You Said; Magic Moments; I Give My Heart To You; Angels Have Wings; The Dragon; The Prince; Can't You Stand It; Ciao; Zulu Queen; Caravan; Gigu; Till We Meet Again; Caught In The Act; Ivory Expedition; Monkey See Monkey Do; I Give You My Love; Sacrifice At Dawn; Journey's End.

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Tom Coster: Ivory Expedition

Read "Ivory Expedition" reviewed by Ed Kopp

by Ed Kopp
December 1, 1998

Back in the early '80s, when I was a beer-swilling, poverty-stricken, disco-hating, post-college naif, my favorite kind of music was jazz-fusion. My early-80s self was particularly smitten by Tom Coster's first two solo records. I regretted having to sell those albums to a graduate student prior to one of my many cross-town moves. When I learned ...

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