At circle time on Thursday, Lorenzo declared that when he makes smores for Julian (which I wasn’t aware that he’d ever done) he makes them with bricks, sticks and snow. He has become an anoriginal king of comedy. When everybody stopped laughing all the other jokes started flying around. “Have you ever seen a Bethany [...]
All About Jazz is celebrating Jimmy Cobb's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Jimmy CobbLegendary jazz drummer, Jimmy Cobb, was born in Washington, D.C. on January 20, 1929. A superb, mostly self-taught musician, Jimmy is the elder statesman of all of the incredible Miles Davis bands. Jimmy\'s inspirational work with Miles... more...
Incredible footage of Coltrane performing in 1960 with Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers and Jimmy Cobb beginning his epic quest, with his Atlantic and Prestige recordings behind him and his Impulse ones to come. They follow what was by then the standard Miles Davis repertoire such as "Walkin'" and "Autumn Leaves." There is a special treat at the end of this session with Oscar Peterson...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Fifty years after jazz legend {{Miles Davis = 6144}} recorded Kind of Blue, the House voted Tuesday to honor the landmark album's contribution to the genre. Davis collaborated on the record with saxophonists {{John Coltrane = 5851}} and {{Julian "Cannonball" Adderley = 3270}}, pianists {{Bill Evans = 6592}} and {{Wynton Kelly = 8317}}, bassist {{Paul Chambers = 12455}}...
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Many museums, restaurants, clubs, ice rinks, zoos and other places are open on Christmas Day in New York City in 2009. Here’s the list, which will update as more locations confirm their holiday hours: Shows Radio City Spectacular - shows at 1, 4 and 7 p.m. Broadway’s Christmas Day shows includes 8 p.m. performances of “The 39 Steps,” “Billy Elliot,” “Burn...
Legendary drummer Jimmy Cobb's So What Band paid tribute to Miles Davis' Kind of Blue on its 50th birthday. It was a fitting tribute to the most cherished album in jazz. On August 17, 1959, Columbia Records issued what would become one of the best-selling and most influential recordings in jazz. Over the next half-century, Miles Davis's Kind of Blue, featuring a cadre of up and coming jazz stars including...
Standing in the queue for the museum of the Cité de la Musique’s wide hall, the air that should have been chilling is more than warm. It’s Love. It’s Miles Davis love. From 16 of October until 17 of January, the exhibition We Want Miles celebrates Miles Davis‘ genius, inspiration and prolific work. Numerous shy, rare, [...]
New York, NY (CNS) – Sirius XM Radio has announced the launch of a new 24-hour commercial-free channel devoted to the music of jazz legend Miles Davis. The Miles Davis Radio will run on a limited basis from November 20 to 25 on Sirius channel 72 and XM channel 70. Miles Davis Radio will be hosted [...]
In 2009 Kind of Blue, the album that symbolizes jazz music for more people the world over turned an astounding 50 years old. Originally released in August 1959, jazz' most influential album is also its best seller ever; having sold untold millions of copies worldwide, it's turned quadruple platinum (4 million copies) in the US alone...
Widely considered one of the most influential jazz musicians of the 20th century, Miles Davis will soon have a channel dedicated to his life and music, starting this Friday, November 20th....
NEW YORK, Nov. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SIRIUS XM Radio (Nasdaq: SIRI) announced today that it will launch Miles Davis Radio, a 24-hour commercial-free channel devoted to the music and career of Miles Davis, one of the greatest visionaries and most important figures in jazz history.
Fifty years on, drummer Jimmy Cobb still can't believe what he, Miles Davis and five other jazz musicians achieved over two days in a converted church in New York. "Nobody could have conceived that 50 years later this would be going on," he said of the extraordinary success of "Kind of Blue", the best-selling jazz album ever which still sells in the thousands every week.
For the new segment of our adventure in letting bassists be our guides, author, critic and sometime Rifftides commentator Larry Kart has a fine idea. May I suggest, for Part 4, Paul Chambers behind Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Wynton Kelly and Jimmy Cobb on "So What." Like Heath and LaFaro in their various ways, where Chambers puts "one" is a place where no one who's playing with...
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