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) | 11/05/2009
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...
Buns O'Plenty (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Drums Around The World: Philly Joe Jones Big Band Sounds was on the Riverside label in 1959 and includes some quality soloists. A lot of it consists of Philly Joe Jones drums solos. It was released on CD and included are the scanned liner notes. Speaking of drummers, I created a new jazz drummer poll. I expanded the list of candidates greatly and made it so you can vote for multiple drummers. Vote...
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.
Edinburgh Evening News (Free subscription) | 08/28/2009
SO there they were, 50 years ago, in Columbia Records' studio in a former Armenian Greek orthodox church located on New York City's East 30th Street. 2 March, 1959, to
DeRosaWorld (Free subscription) | 08/17/2009
Fred Kaplan (1959: The Year Everything Changed) has a very scholarly article on Mile Davis' Kind Of Blue album on SLATE. An album some consider the greatest jazz album ever recorded. It was my first jazz purchase. This article even...
NewMexiKen (Free subscription) | 08/17/2009
Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue, which was released 50 years ago today, is a nearly unique thing in music or any other creative realm: a huge hit—the best-selling jazz album of all time—and the spearhead of an artistic revolution. Everyone, even people who say they don’t like jazz, likes Kind of Blue. It’s cool, romantic, [...]
Yours for Good Fermentables ™ (Free subscription) | 08/17/2009
Today is the 50th anniversary of the release of Miles Davis' album Kind of Blue . Kind of Blue is a studio album by American jazz musician Miles Davis, released August 17, 1959 on Columbia Records. The sessions featured Davis's ensemble sextet, which included pianists Bill Evans and Wynton Kelly, drummer Jimmy Cobb, bassist Paul Chambers, and saxophonists John Coltrane and Julian "Cannonball"...
Musical Stew Daily (Free subscription) | 08/16/2009
Widely considered the most influential guitarist of modern jazz, Wes Montgomery shaped and inspired the career paths of Pat Metheny, Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughan, etc. Dan Biele of Jazz Improv Magazine on Wes: “Wes Montgomery was certainly one of the most influential and most musical guitarists to ever pick up the instrument….He took the use [...]
Buns O'Plenty (Free subscription) | 08/08/2009
The Jamaican born pianist released this 1964 record on Verve. Wynton is best known for his work on Miles Davis' Kind of Blue . Though the cover mentions the Wynton Kelly Trio, five musicians appear on the record. 1. It's All Right (2:50) 2. South Seas (5:28) 3. Not A Tear (5:58) 4. Portrait Of Jenny (4:35) 5. Kelly Roll (3:50) 6. The Fall Of Love (2:05) 7. Moving Up (3:52) 8. On The Trail (4:29) 9....
BLUES TOWN (The City Of Blues) (Free subscription) | 08/07/2009
For a grand slice of Joe's career, check out the Blue Note box set, "The Blue Note Years." It will give you a taste of his sideman experience with the likes of Kenny Dorham, Lee Morgan, Renee Rosnes (one of his protogees), McCoy Tyner, Horace Silver, Freddie Hubbard, Blue Mitchell, Grant Green, Duke Pearson, Bobby Hutcherson, Mel Lewis and Thad Jones, and many others. He's also racked up...
Buns O'Plenty (Free subscription) | 07/28/2009
This is Lee Morgan's third album on Blue Note and he was only 18 at the time of recording. Around this time he would also join Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers and contribute to John Coltrane's Blue Train record. 1. Hasaan's Dream - 8:46 2. Domingo - 9:21 3. I Remember Clifford - 7:09 4. Mesabi Chant - 6:10 5. Tip-Toeing - 6:41 Lee Morgan - trumpet Benny Golson - tenor saxophone Gigi Gryce - alto saxophone,...
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 07/17/2009
Music Reviews »Edward SimonRAY COMISKEYPoesía CamJazz *****Bill Evans once wrote of Wynton Kelly’s ability to be spontaneous, yet instinctively organised musically. Edward Simon, a very different pianist, has that same gift for balancing intellect and emotion, and the creative tension of that yin and yang is a characteristic of his superb trio with John Patitucci (bass) and Brian...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 05/30/2009
In honor of the 83rd anniversary of Miles Davis' birth this past Tuesday, today we offer a video tribute with samples of sounds from various periods of the trumpeter's storied career, plus an interview with Davis himself. A couple of these clips have been featured before here on StLJN, but it's been...
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