Damn Fine Day (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
We at Rhino realize that jazz is not the genre of choice for many DFD regular’s, but the aim of Damn Fine Day is to expose you to music we think is great, even if that means leaving your comfort zone. This track from Coltrane’s classic 1959 Atlantic Records debut Giant Steps, produced by the [...]
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Thaksin Shinawatra's visit to Phnom Penh benefits the ousted Thai leader and his Cambodian host but could drag the two countries back into a simmering border conflict.
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Gerald Wilson Orchestra Detroit Mack Avenue Records 2009 Composer / arranger / ageless wonder {{Gerald Wilson = 11438}}, most of whose recent albums (Monterey Moods; New York, New Sound; Theme for Monterey; State Street Sweet) have been built around sectional themes, returns "home" on Detroit to paint an earnest musical portrait of his adopted city, one that not only spawned the nation's...
France24 (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
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.
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Miles Davis Miles: The New Miles Davis Quintet Prestige Year Miles Davis Kind of Blue:Legacy Edition Columbia/Legacy Year In 1955, after a few years working with pick-up bands and fuelled by a legendary comeback appearance at the Newport Jazz Festival, {{Miles Davis = 6144}} assembled the band that's since become known as the First Great Quintet. Miles, sub-titled The New Miles Davis Quintet, represents...
What we're doing right now... (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Fri 6th Nov 09, 5.12am A hero always emerges from our November 5th shows and last night was no exception. From the wet and windy northern lights of Liverpool & Leeds to the clearer skies down south our teams have chalked up another Bonfire Night success. But it was at Ibstock Place School in south west London that the story of the night emerged. As he was nearing ther finale of the show our senior...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
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...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Attn: Musicians! You're invited to participate in AAJ's new etiquette column, "Mr. P.C.'s Guide to Jazz Etiquette and Bandstand Decorum." Read our October questions and answers here. Have a question for Mr. P.C.? Send it to him here. Have fun! About Mr. P.C...
[BB-Blog] (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
Miles and Trane make rainy days better. "So What" is the first track on the 1959 Miles Davis and John Coltrane album Kind of Blue and is often credited as one of his best works. It is one of the most well-known examples of modal jazz, set in the Dorian mode and consisting of 16 bars of D minor7, followed by eight bars of Eb minor7 and another eight of D minor7. This AABA structure puts it...
10 Daily Things (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
A rare parasite which burrows into host fish before eating and replacing their tongues with itself has been found off the Jersey coast. Fishermen near the Minquiers – islands under the jurisdiction of Jersey – found the isopod, a type of louse, inside a weaver fish. Marine researcher Paul Chambers, from the Société Jersiaise, was one [...]
Chinese Myths (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
The Guardian Paul Chambers is one of HenanDid not eek fame on several occasions to obtainTianbao the early years ofPlaying on the day drinkingWould be for a drink and a friend are drinking from the sameOften invited friends to the hotel to drink East MarketOne dayOccasionally met a treeVery speculative to talk aboutAbout him on [...]
Jazz & Blues Music Reviews (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
Concord Records is wrapping up its epic reissue program of saxophonist John Coltrane’s music recorded for the Prestige label in the late 1950’s. As the name implies, this set tracks Coltrane’s appearances as a sideman for the label. His most notable sideman appearances during this period are outside the scope of this set, and those performances with Thelonious Monk and Miles Davis...
Buns O'Plenty (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
Members of Miles Davis Sextet come together with Cannonball, recorded at Universal Studios in Chicago. Liner notes are here . "Wabash" is an Adderley tune while "Grand Central" and "The Sleeper" are Coltrane compositions. This was rereleased as Cannonball & Coltrane . Look for more Cannonball in the next couple of days. 1. Limehouse Blues - 4:40 2. Stars Fell on Alabama...
Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
Jimmy Cobb could hardly imagine he would be making history when he arrived at Columbia Records' 30th Street Studio 50 years ago for the first of two recording sessions with Miles Davis.
Jazz & Blues Music Reviews (Free subscription) | 09/24/2009
The original liner notes to this archival release note that this is a blowing session, where the individual emotion of the musicians takes precedence over the material composition. Stating that the blowing session was the essence of jazz in New York in the 1950's, they make the case for the primacy of hard bop as the lingua franca of jazz. These statements are borne out by the music which is mostly...
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