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Article: Reassessing

The Tony Williams Lifetime: Emergency!

by Trevor MacLaren
November 16, 2005

The Tony Williams Lifetime Emergency! Polydor 1969 A few months back I came across a great book written on the last forty years of jazz, Howard Mandel's Future Jazz. The book covered a lot of stylistic ground, including avant-garde, fusion, and free. It basically touched on ...

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Seven Steps: The Complete Columbia Recordings, 1963-1964

By Miles Davis

Label: Legacy Recordings
Released: 2004
Track listing: CD1: Joshua; I Fall in Love Too Easily; Baby Won't You Please Come Home; So Near, So Far; Basin Street Blues; Seven Steps to Heaven (take 3); Seven Steps to Heaven (take 5); Summer Night. CD2: Seven Steps to Heaven (rehearsal take); Seven Steps to Heaven; So Near, So Far; Joshua; Introduction by Andre Francis; Autumn Leaves; Milestones; I Thought About You. CD3: Joshua; All of You; Walkin'; Bye Bye Blackbird; Bye Bye (Theme). CD4: Introduction by Mort Fega; Autumn Leaves; So What; Stella By Starlight; Walkin'; All of You; Go-Go (Theme and Announcement).CD5: Introduction by Billy Taylor; All Blues; My Funny Valentine; Joshua; I Thought About You; Four; Seven Steps to Heaven; There is No Greater Love; Go-Go (Theme and Re-Introduction). CD6: Introduction by Teruo Osono; If I Were a Bell; My Funny Valentine; So What; Walkin'; All of You; Go-Go (Theme). CD7: Milestones; Autumn Leaves; So What; Stella By Starlight; Walkin; Go-Go (Theme).

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Counterpoints

By McCoy Tyner

Label: Milestone
Released: 2004
Track listing: The Greeting; Aisha; Sama Layuca; Prelude to a Kiss; Iki Masho Lets Go.

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Believe It

By Tony Williams

Label: Columbia Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Snake Oil; Fred; Proto-Cosmos; Red Alert; Wildlife; Mr. Spock
Bonus Tracks: Celebration; Letsby

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Article: Reassessing

Miles Davis: In a Silent Way

by Trevor MacLaren
October 8, 2004

Miles Davis In a Silent Way Columbia 1969Recording in February 1969, Miles Davis seemed to pick up the vibe of what was going to go down that crazy summer. It was a tumultuous time as the sixties came to a close. First came the Manson Family, then the ...

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Article: Album Review

The New Tony Williams Lifetime: Believe It

Read "Believe It" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
June 1, 2004

By the time drummer Tony Williams left Miles Davis in '69, he had moved even farther away from the acoustic tradition than his former employer. His first recordings with his new band, Lifetime, were characterized by the sleeve instructions: “Play it Loud!" While the energy level was high and the music was infused with a rock ...

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Article: What is Jazz?

Ginsberg's 'America' and Jazz

by AAJ Staff
April 8, 2003

Current events, such as they are, prompted me to go back and re-read Allen Ginsberg's poem “ America ." There is much good literature on the relation between the Beat movement and jazz, I'll not try and revisit that topic here. I will however dwell on one characteristic all great jazz players' posses and which this ...

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Supertrios

By McCoy Tyner

Label: Milestone
Released: 1977
Track listing: Wave; Blues on the Corner; I Mean You; The Greeting; Prelude to a Kiss; Moments Notice; HymnSong; Consensus; Four by Five; Stella by Starlight Washington Young; Lush Life Strayhorn; Blues for Ball.

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The Rudy Van Gelder Blue Note Editions

by C. Andrew Hovan
June 1, 1999

As far as jazz goes from the hard bop era, two names are synonymous with their groundbreaking work of the period-Blue Note Records and recording engineer Rudy Van Gelder. Blue Note released a canon of recordings that have been revered by collectors and musicians alike over the years and Van Gelder was the man behind the ...

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