Created in Conjunction with the Miles Davis Family, New Headphones Feature Sleek Styling Designed to Capture the Essence of the Man and His Music Engineered to the Most Demanding Sonic Specifications October 21, 2009 , NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Monster, renowned for its many advanced consumer electronics accessories and fast becoming one of the...
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Kind of Blue was both a radical stylistic experiment and an album parents could put on after dinner without waking the kids. It's a manifesto, a meeting of musical minds, and it's moved millions of copies to remain the bestselling jazz record of all time. Miles Davis' "Kind of Blue," released in August 1959, featured what might be the finest group in jazz history; it virtually founded a new mus...
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Fifty years ago today, the Miles Davis Sextet began recording for Columbia Records the music that ultimately made up the album called Kind Of Blue. To observe the occasion, Jan Stevens of The Bill Evans Web Pages commissioned an essay about that imperishable recording and its most recent CD reissue. The piece, by John Varrallo, is exclusive to the Evans site. It is worth reading. Evans, who was...
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It really is a cliche: "Kind Of Blue" is the best music album ever. Not best jazz or instrumental album, is the best MUSIC album ever produced. It would be my choice if I only had to live with one album for the rest of my life. A full mosaic of deep emotions and feelings, "Kind Of Blue" is perfect when you feel sad, happy, upbeat, downbeat, creative, introspective, kinky, you name it, is the pe...
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Depending on your opinion of Miles Davis' plunge into serious funk with his 1972 album, On The Corner, you'll either be thrilled to hear that Columbia/Legacy is releasing a SIX DISC set, The Complete On the Corner Sessions, or will look at this as a cynical move to get Miles' fans to part with more of their dough.On the Corner cover art.Me, I'm in the former camp. While the original album was c...
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Review of reissue of Sketches of Spain, by jazz legends Miles Davis and Gil Evans
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The secret to creating music that stands the test of time is to create timeless music: Sketches of Spain was, and remains, quite unlike anything else created in the jazz idiom.
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The Miles Davis Quintet featuring: Miles Davis (trumpet) John Coltrane (tenor sax), Wynton Kelly (piano), Paul Chambers (bass), Jimmy Cobb (drums) Has anyone ever seen the Cameron Crowe movie, Jerry Maguire? How about the scene where the jazz-nut baby sitter...uh, child-technician, Chad is talking at (certainly not talking to....) Jerry about Miles Davis and John Coltrane: "This (hol...
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So Momma B & I were talking yesterday & being that she is really into the book I am working on, she had some great suggestions for me. One thing she really wanted me to impart to all you is an author that both she & I adore. Frank Conroy. He's a music prodigy & one hella writer... brought jazz to Nantucket... sadly it's my Mum who should be writing this post - hopefully she will & I can add ...
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Miles From India (Times Square). Producer Bob Belden wound up a monumental series of Miles Davis reissue box sets for Sony/Columbia, then he and fellow arranger Louiz Banks turned to interpreting the trumpeter's immense output of recordings after 1959. This two-CD set considers the intersection of Indian music with Davis's adventures in scales and modes from Kind of Blue forward. Belden laid do...
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Listen and read. Enjoy Jazz on Saturday.It may or may not be common knowledge that Cody B. and I are pretty good friends. We met on MOG and have seen each other a few times, we even call each other on a semi regular basis and talk about whatever (MOG politics and happenings mostly and of course music). Well one of our conversations turned to ideas for posts. It was Cody's idea for me to do a an...
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Fillmore East - March 6, 1970 Unreleased Shows - Miles Opens For NeilFrom The Boat's March '07 ArchivesYou’re at the Fillmore East to see Neil Young & Crazy Horse and The Steve Miller Blues Band when out walks the Miles Davis Quintet (Miles, Wayne Shorter, Chick Corea, Dave Holland and Jack DeJohnette... with Airto Moreira). It's your first experience in front of the coolest SOB on planet Earth.
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The Miles Davis Quintet featuring: Miles Davis (trumpet) John Coltrane (tenor sax), Wynton Kelly (piano), Paul Chambers (bass), Jimmy Cobb (drums) Has anyone ever seen the Cameron Crowe movie, Jerry Maguire? How about the scene where the jazz-nut baby sitter...uh, child-technician, Chad is talking at (certainly not talking to....) Jerry about Miles Davis and John Coltrane: "This (hol...
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So Momma B & I were talking yesterday & being that she is really into the book I am working on, she had some great suggestions for me. One thing she really wanted me to impart to all you is an author that both she & I adore. Frank Conroy. He's a music prodigy & one hella writer... brought jazz to Nantucket... sadly it's my Mum who should be writing this post - hopefully she will & I can add ...
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Mine is: ...and it's one of the FINEST albums in my collection. The rumors surrounding the recording sessions, the interplay between Miles and Sonny Rollins.... wow. gives me goosebumps just thinking about it. So...POST 'EM UP! What's the oldest full album in your collection? I have several older sitting on the shelf but in my enormous Itunes library, this one happens to be the current old...
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