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Hace 3 días · A PAINTING by a jazz icon is set to go on sale in York this week. The picture, called ‘White and Naked’, was painted by the great American jazz trumpeter Miles Davis and is expected to make between £8,000-£12,000 when it goes under the hammer in a Fine Art Auction at the York Auction Centre on Friday, May 10. It was one of many pieces ...
Hace 4 días · Our Song of the Day is “Sippin at Bell’s,” an unconventional 12-bar blues written by Miles Davis as a tribute to one of his favorite bars in Harlem. It’s the sound of jazz history in the making.
Hace 3 días · 50 years ago this month, the Miles Davis octet traveled to Brazil for three-night stands in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo – a stretch of gigs featuring the same personnel that recorded the Dark Magus live set at Carnegie Hall earlier that spring. While Dark Magus documented guitarist Dominique Gaumont’s incendiary first night with the band, the tapes from Brazil capture Miles’ well-oiled ...
Hace 4 días · Reinventing Miles: Miles Davis in the 1980s. by Brian Zimmerman. Not for the first time, Miles Davis changed his music and changed the jazz world in the 1980s. Here are some of the albums that defined an era and divided listeners.
Hace 4 días · In honor of the 70th anniversary of this groundbreaking album, which helped give rise to the cool jazz moment, Universal Music Enterprises in association with Ingenuity Studios has created a brand new video interpretation of one of the album’s most enduring tracks: “Moon Dreams.”.
Hace 10 horas · In this ode to Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans and more, James Kaplan evokes a pivotal moment in modern music. It was modern jazz's annus mirabilis. As Kaplan writes in his book about trumpeter Davis, saxophonist Coltrane and pianist Evans — three mid-century geniuses — 1959 brought on “jazz's future with ruthless speed.”.
are there any known recordings of Miles Davis performing live with John McLaughlin OTHER than Cellar Door complete/Live-Evil? I'm totally fine with bootlegs or obscure YouTube links. Just find it hard to believe there's not more of these two playing together out there.
