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The Band Quit the Band

5095 days ago

Said the Gramophone — Miles Davis - "All Blues/Theme" (Live in Stockholm, 1960) You can learn a lot about a band from a song in which its members trade solos. You can isolate the soul of a group, as in the Jeff Parker-dominated Tortoise... more info

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Don Cheadle - Finance Problems Holding Up Don Cheadle's Miles Davis Film

5101 days ago

ContactMusic — Don Cheadle's dreams of playing Miles Davis on the big screen have been stalled by financial problems. The Hotel Rwanda star admits financiers have been put off the ongoing project because it isn't "your standard middle of the road studio fare". He t... more info

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Marilyn Mazur: Celestial Circle – review

5102 days ago

Guardian Music — (ECM) Former Miles Davis percussionist Marilyn Mazur sits inside an exotic kit of gongs, bells and drums that could fill a small room, but her instincts are world-musical and very outgoing. She could hardly be in better company than on this unusual s... more info

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Album Review: Shabazz Palaces' 'Black Up'

5104 days ago

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — Two decades ago, Ishmael Butler flapped his wings as Butterfly, one-third of the seminal ’90s New York hip-hop trio Digable Planets. Claiming coolness as its birthright and Miles Davis and two Herbies (Hancock & Mann) as elemental building blocks, ... more info

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What would you include in your version of the history of jazz?

5108 days ago

Guardian Music — In a seven-part series, Guardian and Observer writers are trying to tell the history of modern music. Rounding everything off, today they pick out 50 key moments in the story of jazz – but what did they miss?Drug busts, razor-sharp tailoring and br... more info

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Buddy Bolden 'invents' jazz

5108 days ago

Guardian Music — Early 1900s: Number 1 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of jazz musicWhether or not the cornetist Buddy Bolden invented jazz (Jelly Roll Morton is one of the best known other claimants to the title), he certainly created the enduring ... more info

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Sonny Rollins records Saxophone Colossus

5108 days ago

Guardian Music — 1956: Number 25 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of dance musicSonny Rollins is still a full-blown saxophone giant today at the age of 80, but they were calling him the Saxophone Colossus back in 1956.Rollins is one of the few surviv... more info

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Miles Davis improvises a soundtrack for Lift to the Scaffold

5108 days ago

Guardian Music — 1957: Number 26 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of dance musicIt was in the late 1950s that film directors began to call on jazz musicians to provide atmospheric soundtracks. Among the most notable were the scores for Shadows (Charl... more info

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Miles Davis releases Kind of Blue

5108 days ago

Guardian Music — 1959: Number 28 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of dance music1959 saw the release of several key jazz albums, each of which found new ways of developing and challenging the innovations of bebop. Dave Brubeck's Time Out transformed ... more info

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Miles Davis plays to 600,000 people at the Isle of Wight

5108 days ago

Guardian Music — 29 August 1970: Number 38 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of Jazz musicThe coolest man on the planet took the stage at the Isle of Wight festival towards the end of the afternoon on Saturday 29 August 1970. He followed Joni Mitchell... more info

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The Band Quit the Band

Don Cheadle - Finance Problems Holding Up Don Cheadle's Miles Davis Film

Marilyn Mazur: Celestial Circle – review

Album Review: Shabazz Palaces' 'Black Up'

What would you include in your version of the history of jazz?

Buddy Bolden 'invents' jazz

Sonny Rollins records Saxophone Colossus

Miles Davis improvises a soundtrack for Lift to the Scaffold

Miles Davis releases Kind of Blue

Miles Davis plays to 600,000 people at the Isle of Wight

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