JamsBio (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
The album has become such an emblem for a specific moment in jazz that it came as little surprise when we learned that an NYU music professor recorded an album of reggae covers back in 1981. Somewhat more surprising, however, was last year's Kind of Bloop: An 8 Bit Tribute to Miles Davis . The vamping and jamming of reggae is one thing, but can you rearrange Kind of Blue for NES?
Miami New Times | Complete Issue (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
The flagship band of the West Coast Black Rock Coalition wing, beloved by artists including the late Miles Davis and OutKast, Fishbone has long persisted as a vital pioneer of stateside ska, striving tirelessly toward an equivalence of diverse styles and visions. Sadly, 'Bone's adherence to 2-Ton...
Herohill (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
It's not surprising that Matthew Barber's upcoming release - True Believer - is flying under the radar of most of the sites I read and most of the music loving public in general. Barber is easy to classify - essentially he's a rock solid song writer that could charm you with just an acoustic or a piano - but the surprising range he presents when he writes songs makes it almost to lock into a sound...
Bemsha Swing (Free subscription) | yesterday
Cross post to Writing Jazz There's an interesting give and take between vocal and instrumental jazz, beginning with Armstrong who was both the first great recorded jazz singer per se and the greatest soloist of the earliest period of recorded jazz. Really great horn players listen to singers and often model themselves after vocal stylings. (I've heard classical wind and brass players say the same thing...
The Rehearsal Studio (Free subscription) | yesterday
One of my friends reminded me of a Master Class we had attended at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music conducted by Robert Mann . She recalled Mann telling a first violin in a string quartet that she had a very polished sound but that her playing was "without direction." I realized that his observation resonated closely with my tendency to invoke a metaphorical use of the noun "journey,"...
The New Confusion (Free subscription) | yesterday
Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong - Ella and Louis (1956) I'd like to give you all a nice album for the week to come. That album is Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong's Ella and Louis (1956). As if they weren't good enough on their own, Ella and Louis teamed-up for a full studio album back in the mid-50s, and, to be honest, few things (e.g. snow & hot chocolate, Bob Marley & weed, Miles...
breath of life (Free subscription) | 02/08/2010
Love songs from Smokey Robinson, new African lyrics from Somi, and interpretations of "My Funny Valentine" from Whirimako Black, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Nancy Wilson, Hank Jones, Kevin Mahogany, Eddie Harris, Dianne Reeves, Roy Hargrove, Ian Shaw, Jean-Michel Pilc, Sarah Vaughan, Keith Jarrett, Rachelle Ferrell, Miles Davis, Eve Cornelious, Billy Harper and Etta James. Love hugs all [...]
Collin Kelley...Modern Confessional (Free subscription) | 02/07/2010
The trip down to Savannah for my reading at the Savannah College of Art & Design was quick, but fun. It was gloomy and rainy for the entire the three-and-half hour drive (I listened to Miles Davis the whole way -- good driving music). I stayed in a gorgeous new hotel in the historic district called Springhill Suites (it's a Marriott hotel) that I booked on Priceline. I'd never done the bit where...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 02/07/2010
I decided to list my top ten favorite Miles Davis recordings of the electric period. Miles is not just one of the biggest musicians of all time, but one of the biggest artists of all time--regardless of discipline. His entire career output is of the highest quality, extremely forward thin...
Destructoid (Free subscription) | 02/06/2010
[ Editor's Note: We're not just a (rad) news site -- we also publish opinions/editorials from our community & employees like this one, though be aware it may not jive with the opinions of Destructoid as a whole, or how our moms raised us. Want to post your own article in response? Publish it now on our community blogs .] We all have our favorite videogame soundtracks that move us in indescribable...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 02/06/2010
Four decades ago, Miles Davis called then-burgeoning saxophonist Steve Grossman "an important voice in this music." One of the people who heard that voice was pianist Antonio Ciacca . Lagos Blues, Ciacca's second disc for Motema, not only shows Grossman's influence as Ciacca's former teacher; it also includes the now-legendary tenor player's direct influence, as he joins Ciacca's regular...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 02/06/2010
When I first saw this image of Miles Davis playing the tenor saxophone, I had a "what's wrong with this picture" moment. The photo of the trumpeter clearly was taken in the early 1960s, and Davis was never known to have doubled on the instrument. The blurry nature of the image also signified urgency. So I asked the person who sent it to me and was told the image is from Swing, Bop and Free,...
Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword P (Free subscription) | 02/05/2010
Constructor: Joe Krozel Relative difficulty: Medium-Challenging THEME: none Word of the Day: AHMAD Jamal (25D: Jamal of jazz) — Jamal was one of Miles Davis 's favorite pianists and was a key influence on the trumpeter's "First Great Quintet" (featuring John Coltrane on tenor saxophone, Red Garland on piano, Paul Chambers on bass, and Philly Joe Jones on drums). Davis had long admired...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 02/05/2010
DAVE HOLLAND OCTET DEBUT RECORDING PATHWAYS AVAILABLE MARCH 23 Dave Holland A master of tone and rhythm; bassist, composer, and band leader Dave Holland is now in his fifth decade as a performer. Though he got his big break from Miles Davis - with whom he played during the trumpet legend's epochal Bitches Brew period, and collaborated with the biggest names in jazz - it is Holland's own contributions...
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