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

6289 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

Albums you love from genres you hate

6289 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

the first batch of monday updates

6289 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

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

6292 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

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

6293 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

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

6293 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

Kind of Bloop: Miles Davis as Video Game Music

6293 days ago
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Rashied Ali: 1933-2009

6294 days ago
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

MUSIC INDUSTRY: Boosey and Hawkes Lands Global Synch Deal with Savoy Label Group

6296 days ago
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

Hey, what's that sound: Tuba

6296 days ago
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

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