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

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

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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Guardian Music — Innovative drummer credited with steering John Coltrane towards free jazz in the 1960sWhen the drummer Rashied Ali, who has died aged 76, was a young man in the late 1950s, he sometimes sat in a Philadelphia park listening to the sound of a saxophone... more info

All About Jazz — Boosey and Hawkes (B&H) is pleased to announce its representation of Savoy Label Group, home to veteran jazz label, Savoy Jazz, for synchronization on a worldwide basis. The deal includes all of Savoys label imprints, including the jazz catalogs o... more info

Guardian Music — Often viewed as a cartoonish instrument, the Big Daddy of brass bands has trumped its way into popular music, even lending its round, bassy tones to hip-hopWhat is it? The Big Daddy of the brass section. Tubas are treated by a lot of people as funny,... more info

All About Jazz — Regarding Terry Teachout's "Can Jazz Be Saved?The audience for America's great art form is withering away" (Leisure and Arts, Aug. 8): Miles Davis once said that "jazz is folk music"a music enjoyed by folks for entertainment, inspiration and even som... more info

Totally Fuzzy — mike-floyd said...... some more weird avantgarde experimental music from Czechoslovakia by:- INTERPRETACE - lost & found tapes from the eighties (CZCH 198?) (mp3-zip, 2 tracks, 132,3 MB, 95 min)Enjoy!HOMEMADE LOFI PSYCH HEADS UNITE!http://homemade-lo... more info

All About Jazz — The Jazz Institute of Chicago presents "Sketches of Brazil: Robert Irving III's Orchestral Homage to Miles and Gil" in Chicago and its free... more info