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...
Blogcritics: Music (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Side Steps is another great John Coltrane box-set from Prestige.
SteveAudio (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
There's a certain connection between sophisticated country music and jazz. Both rely on good musicianship, and improvisation that blurs the lines, yet remains true to the genre. And in the beginning, rock shared most of these roots as well. Rock has moved in different directions, some good, some . . . And as I've said frequently here, the average country guitarist is miles above the average rock guitarist....
Mainstream Isn't So Bad...Is It? (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
The CTA, Redline Here's a classic bebop cut from an album recently remastered by recording engineer Rudy Van Gelder , featuring a handful of musicians just tuning into their personal musical paths. Its freneticness calls forth images of rush hour on the C.T.A. The Red Garland Quintet with John Coltrane - C.T.A. : Dig It! (Rudy Van Gelder Remaster) Visit the Prestige Records website.
Jazz & Blues Music Reviews (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
Disc Four of this collection of tenor saxophonist John Coltrane's recordings as a sideman for the Prestige label finds him continuing to serve under the leadership of pianist Red Garland, taking selections from several Garland LP's of the period (1957.) Joining Garland and Coltrane are Donald Byrd on trumpet, George Joyner (Jamil Nasser) on bass and Art Taylor on drums. "All Mornin' Long"...
Jazz & Blues Music Reviews (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
Disc three of this collection of John Coltrane’s recordings for Prestige as a sideman find him in familiar territory, recording with the pianist Red Garland, whom Coltrane would perform with on several occasions during his tenures with the Miles Davis Quintet. This was a very important period of time for Coltrane, he had recently given up narcotics after being dismissed from the Davis band and...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
Side Steps the third and final set in a series of Coltrane Box Sets, hits stores today via Prestige Records. The 5-CD set captures Coltrane in a supporting role, as a sideman to leaders like Sonny Rollins, Gene Ammons, Red Garland, Tadd Dameron and others. The collection of 43 tracks represents the entirety of Coltrane’s session work as a Prestige sideman, from mid-1956 to early 1958, with...
Blogcritics: Music (Free subscription) | 09/28/2009
Prestige reissues the fourth and final in a series of collaborations between Red Garland and John Coltrane.
JazzHQ (Free subscription) | 09/25/2009
PRESTIGE RECORDS RELEASES SIDE STEPS, A 5-CD BOXED SET OF JOHN COLTRANE’S PRESTIGE RECORDINGS AS A SIDEMAN TO A HOST OF JAZZ LUMINARIES Over the past three years, Prestige Records has released boxed sets of Coltrane’s numerous sessions from the mid- to late ’50s, each spotlighting a specific dimension of his tenure with the label. Fearless Leader – released in September 2006,...
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...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 09/23/2009
Pianist Don Friedman arrived on the New York scene just as Bill Evans was making his mark as a solo player. Both were classically trained, both had similar sounds, and both played and recorded with bassist Scott LaFaro. But where Bill was Euro-centric, influenced primarily by George Russell and relatively conservative in his approach, Don was more experimental and had more Bud Powell and Red Garland...
01Date Dating (Free subscription) | 08/30/2009
Miles Davis Quartet - My Funny Valentine (1956 Prestige Records Version) Personnel: Miles Davis (trumpet), Red Garland (piano), Paul Chambers (bass), Philly Joe Jones (drums) from the album ‘COOKIN” Miles Davis Quintet - Tune Up / When Lights Are Low www.dailymotion.com
The Pomlog (Free subscription) | 08/24/2009
HOW COOL IS THIS ? Jazz Covers Mini Wall Calendar Today, jazz recordings reach more fans than ever via electronic media, yet there’s something magical about the music of yesteryear, when the tunes were issued mainly on vinyl discs wrapped in covers large enough for the accompanying art to make its own impact. Harking back to that classic era in jazz history, this calendar features a dozen album...
Bemsha Swing (Free subscription) | 08/17/2009
Here's a pretty good but not quite good enough explanation of the importance of Kind of Blue . There are a couple of inaccuracies. The author, Fred Kaplan, states that a "scale" consists of the 12 notes in an octave. Well, that would be the chromatic scale--but most music is not based on the chromatic scale but on the seven notes of a major or minor scale. All the "modes" are selections...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 07/25/2009
Tim Ries and The Rolling Stones Project July 31st, 7:30pm, Two sets Regatta Bar at the Charles Hotel One Bennett Street Cambridge, MA 02138 Boston, MA 617-395-7757 Featuring: Jay Azzolina - Guitar, Andy Eulau - Bass, Bernard Fowler - Vocals, Magos Herrera - Vocals, Alex Kautz - Drums, Ron Oswanski - Organ, Piano, and Accordion...
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