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

All About Jazz — Claude Thornhill was a pianist, composer, and arranger whose 1940s big band helped shape the sound of modern jazz, with orchestral bop and ethereal ballads tinged with classical influences that set the stage for later masterpieces by Miles Davis and ... more info