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Zion Space Station – “Orbital-minded”

4820 days ago
SwedespleaseMore electronica, this time of the space age variety; trippy and interstellar. What begins with a muted Miles Davis solo quickly becomes a diaspora of synthy beats, weird samples, and otherworldly chants. Here’s “The Icarus Vessel” from the alb... more info

First Listen: Miles Davis - Live In Europe 1967: The Bootleg Series Vol. 1 (album stream)

4821 days ago
Totally Fuzzy After three years of playing together, Davis' "second great quintet" had evolved into a tight, athletic and adventurous crew. When the band toured Europe in 1967, it made some music for the ages — and luckily, much of that trip was recorded. R... more info

Greek/Music Theatre Wales – review

4823 days ago
Guardian MusicTraverse, Edinburgh; Royal Albert Hall, LondonIn Greek the thuggish hero Eddy commits murder, inadvertently sleeps with his mother and gouges his eyes out. When the young Mark-Anthony Turnage wrote his first opera, he spotted early the power of ancie... more info

The Unthanks get tender with brass

4825 days ago
Guardian MusicA new baby boy and a new project with brass bands have given the Unthanks' Adrian McNally two great reasons to be thankfulHe's the best. A lovely midsummer's baby. Beautiful like his mother, Rachel Unthank. My son was born nine whole pounds exactly... more info

Top jazz and world-music picks for autumn

4829 days ago
Guardian MusicWayne Shorter headlines a much-anticipated gig, followed by the London Jazz festival in November, while the blind duo Amadou and Mariam tell their life story – in the darkWayne Shorter Quartet and PhronesisA much-anticipated gig from sax star Short... more info

Barry Harris – review

4834 days ago
Guardian MusicPizza Express Jazz Club SohoBarry Harris, the jazz musician who worked alongside pioneers from Coleman Hawkins to Miles Davis and roomed with Thelonious Monk, has been playing the piano for 77 years. He still exhibits the relaxed fluency that experie... more info

Michael Mantler: For Two – review

4860 days ago
Guardian Music(ECM) Vienna-born composer Michael Mantler came to prominence on the American free-jazz scene in the late 1960s, with challenging music for the improv piano virtuoso Cecil Taylor. Since his return to Europe in the 1990s, however, he has favoured a ... more info

Pentangle – review

4861 days ago
Guardian MusicRoyal Festival Hall, LondonBy pulling together folk, jazz and blues into evocative, melodic albums, Pentangle were ahead of the curve in the late 1960s. An early "supergroup", they set the scene for more celebrated artists. Long before singer-songwri... more info

Bugge Wesseltoft/Henrik Schwarz: Wesseltoft/Schwarz Duo – review

4874 days ago
Guardian Music(Jazzland) Conversations between improvising jazz players and computer musicians have often left the former struggling to find space within the machine's strutting rigidities, or the latter clacking hopefully along behind jazz's athleticism. This dia... more info

John Lee Hooker & Miles Davis :: Bank Robbery

4877 days ago
Aquarium DrunkardA high point on the soundtrack to director Dennis Hopper’s 1990 film The Hot Spot, “Bank Robbery” finds John Lee Hooker collaborating with Miles Davis alongside Taj Mahal, Roy Rogers, Earl Palmer, and Tim Drummond. Scored by Jack Nitzchse, the ... more info

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