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Great moments in jazz: How Miles Davis plugged in and transformed jazz...all over again

5084 days ago
Guardian Music — How the tireless musical innovator came to make, in Bitches Brew, one of the biggest-selling jazz albums of all timeBetween 1945, when he hustled his way on to New York's new bebop scene as Charlie Parker's teenage trumpeter, and the turbulent year o... more info
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50 great moments in jazz: How Miles Davis's second quintet changed jazz

5156 days ago
Guardian Music — In 1964, Miles Davis responded to free jazz by enlisting a group of untried talents who would challenge, rather than flatter, his remarkable trumpet sound. It was a gamble that paid off ...It's hard to think of a more significant influence on the sma... more info
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The muse who changed Miles Davis

5195 days ago
Guardian Music — Forty years ago, Miles Davis rewrote the jazz rulebook with his album Bitches Brew – but he never would have made it without the inspiration of the amazing Betty Mabry, as she now reveals in a rare interviewAs the incendiary year of 1968 dawned, Mi... more info
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RADIO/PODCAST: Jimmy Cobb and the Kind of Blue Sessions

5203 days ago
All About Jazz — It's eerily appropriate, in a way—Jimmy Cobb is the only musician missing from the photos of the famous "Kind of Blue" recording sessions that decorate his bedroom. He's also the last one still living, a fact he's reminded of every day he awake... more info
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Miles Davis: Bitches Brew 40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition | CD review

5204 days ago
Guardian Music — (Sony)As with last year's Kind of Blue 50th-birthday extravaganza, this 40th-year equivalent for Bitches Brew is more of a luxury gift than an essential. The electric sound and thundering Latin-rock grooves might have broken with the cool-jazz trad... more info
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Hail, Hail, Rock'n'Roll

5204 days ago
Guardian Music — There's no greater joy than singing with your family, when it doesn't matter whether you're in tune, or if you don't know the wordsWe were floating in canoes down the Aveyron valley in southern France, the water shining and still, the banks silent. ... more info
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BOOK/MAGAZINE: Aural History

5218 days ago
All About Jazz — For fans of Miles Davis's legendary 1959 record, and for jazz fans in general, Ashley Kahn's Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece is a compelling read. It's an insider's look at people involved in the recording of this most popular... more info
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50 great moments in jazz: John Coltrane's giant step for improvisation

5221 days ago
Guardian Music — Perhaps the most influential saxophonist all of time, Coltrane produced an intensely soulful sound that reached way beyond the jazz cognoscentiMiles Davis was a good authority on the saxophonist John Coltrane, who played in one of the trumpeter's ban... more info
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CD/DOWNLOAD/ALBUM: 50 Great Moments in Jazz: Miles Davis and Kind of Blue

5256 days ago
All About Jazz — This groundbreaking 1959 album is as close to perfection as jazz gets without sacrificing its spontaneity I had hoped that a blog on the popular and funky Hammond organist Jimmy Smith might attract more than the average number of commentators, but I... more info
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50 great moments in jazz: Miles Davis and Kind of Blue

5256 days ago
Guardian Music — This groundbreaking 1959 album is as close to perfection as jazz gets without sacrificing its spontaneityI had hoped that a blog on the popular and funky Hammond organist Jimmy Smith might attract more than the average number of commentators, but I w... more info
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