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"This music says so much, particularly in revealing the warmth these musicians feel for each other, their interest in experimentation, and their love of their craft. In their choice of fine songs, performed in new and different settings, they invite you to become involved. Listen, and you will understand and appreciate the shade of difference here." - Marian McPartland, liner notes...
Music icon Miles Davis has long been revered as a jazz pioneer — but what exactly did he pioneer? To some purists, jazz music can be broken into two distinct eras: Before Miles and After Miles. A student and bandmate of Bebop legends Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker, Miles’ musical education took place [...]
On Saturday, July 12th, 2008 Drummer, Mike Clark will be bringing his group Prescription Renewal to the Cervantes Masterpiece Ballroom in Denver, Colorado. Mike will have his legendary rhythm partner Paul Jackson on Bass and the amazing Donald Harrison on saxophone. WHO: Mike Clark's Prescription Renewal: Mike Clark - Drums Paul Jackson - Bass Donald Harrison - Sax...
Happy Canada Day. Here's some Gil Evans -- with a searing French horn solo from John Clark -- seriously, people need to give it up for John Clark -- and Billy Cobham laying it down on, like, a 29-piece drum...
Boz Scaggs told Billboard.com his September album, “Speak Low,” will be a set of standards but still “a sort of progressive, experimental effort along the lines of some of the ideas that Gil Evans explored.”
Tribute concerts and returning regulars will be featured at the 1988 JVC Jazz Festival The lineup, announced yesterday by its producer, George Wein, and its sponsor, the JVC Company of America, ranges through jazz history, from concerts dedicated to Louis Armstrong to the Latin-jazz pioneer. Taking place June 24 to July 2...
Barring the stage play soundtrack “The Time Of The Barracudas” (available on the CD reissue of this album), Quiet Nights marked the last collaboration between Miles Davis and Gil Evans. It was thoroughly panned on its release, and at less than 25 minutes long, it’s barely an album at all. Its reputation has never really [...]
Gil Evans, a Canadian-born pianist and composer, "enormously expanded the vocabulary of the jazz orchestra," as writer Gene Lees pointed out, reducing the standard big-band instrumentation, restraining its vibrato, and adding flutes, oboes, English and French horns, and tubas. Self-taught as an arra...
A brilliant addition to Blue Note's Connoisseur series, Head On not only resuscitates vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson's fascinating but obscure 1971 album of the same name, it also--with 43 minutes of previously unissued material--reveals another album altogether, made during the second half of the same three-day session, of the same high quality but with a markedly different feel...
Your birthday today: You are honest, sincere, intellectual and rather retiring ; moody sometimes, but kind and lovable most of the time. You like travelling because of the educational value and you make the most of your opportunities to better yourself. As there is no name written into the book whom you might seek in celebration, you may wish to throw a big birthday party and invite a few of these...
Miles Davis - Porgy and Bess (1958)mp3@320Kbps | 135Mb | cover | Sony Master Sound Series | Total time: 59:41The musical and social impact of Miles Davis, his collaborative efforts with Gil Evans, and in particular their reinvention of George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess are indeed profound. However, the most efficient method of extricating the rhetoric and opining is to experience the recording. Few...
The cover on top “Music for Your Vacation” is an easy listening lp from Columbia Records Argentina that shares the same stock photo as “Miles Ahead” below. “Miles Ahead” by Miles Davis was released in 1957. This was the first album Davis recorded with Gil Evans, who combined the ten pieces that make up the [...]
