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Miles Davis Goes 8-bit

5834 days ago

XLR8R — On the 50th anniversary of Miles Davis' jazz classic, Kind of Blue, Kickstarter.com CTO and Portland-based chiptunes enthusiast Andy Baio commissioned a reinterpretation of the album's tracks by 8-bit artists Ast0r, Disasterpeace, read mor... more info

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tuesday afternoon updates

5835 days ago

Totally Fuzzy — Little Tony Negri said...I.H.C. Founded in 1998 by producer/drummer David Nerattini and brothers Paolo and Pino Pecorelli in Rome, Italy, I.H.C. is a band that reaches beyond the confines of any single musical category. Drawing from a broad scope of ... more info

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Dancing About Architecture 8.25.09

5836 days ago

411 Mania — Thoughts on the Tyondai Braxton and The XX albums, Deerhunter and Oneida live. Plus, news on the new Built To Spill record, new Atlas Sound music, a new R.E.M. live collection, Patrick Wolf apologies, a new album from Do Make Say Think, a gigantic M... more info

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Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash and Miles Davis: Photos by Don Hunstein

5836 days ago

Rolling Stone — Photograph by Don Hunstein courtesy of the RockArchive.com As the photographer for Columbia Records, Don Hunstein had a front-row seat for some of rock’s most iconic moments — in fact, he shot them. As an exhibit of his legendary photos begins i... more info

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Albums you love from genres you hate

5836 days ago

Guardian Music — If Miles Davis's Kind of Blue is a jazz album for people who hate jazz, what about reggae albums for people who hate reggae? Or metal records for those who detest metal?Fifty years ago this week, Columbia released Kind of Blue. It's widely regarded a... more info

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the first batch of monday updates

5837 days ago

Totally Fuzzy — Azbest said...The Velvet Underground "Sweet Sister Ray"Older Stuff: Mikirurka, Antigama, Brian Eno, Yanka Dyagilevahttp://proskynesis.blogspot.comroy rocket said...Hiya Fuzzies!David Krakauer's Klezmer Madness live at Royal Albert Hall, 2001.Klezmer ... more info

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EVENT: The Score: Rebirth of the Cool - Seattle Jazz Composers Ensemble Pays Tribute to Miles Davis

5840 days ago

All About Jazz — By Christopher DeLaurenti Was any other revolution in jazz so suave? When Miles Davis led a two-week stand at New York's fabled Royal Roost in 1948, the music—composed and arranged for a nonet by Gil Evans, John Lewis (later of the Modern Jazz... more info

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WEB/TECH: Kind of Bloop: Miles Davis as Video Game Music

5840 days ago

All About Jazz — {{Miles Davis = 6144}} probably never played Nintendo. It's technically possible; the genre-bending, stereotype-defying jazz legend lived until 1991, six years after the first Nintendo Entertainment System was released in North America. Who knows how... more info

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How Miles Davis's Kind of Blue shaped 50 years of music

5840 days ago

Guardian Music — The jazz landmark, which celebrates its 50th anniversary in August, has forever changed the way in which we listen to musicSince Columbia/Sony reissued its 50th anniversary box set of Miles Davis's Kind of Blue a year prematurely in 2008, it feels as... more info

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