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Miles-Davis

Arts Reconsideration: The 1971 Project – Celebrating a Great Year in Music (December Entry)

Arts Fuse writers continue their countdown of great music celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. This month’s diverse list includes Elton John, Paul and Linda McCartney, Humble Pie, Miles Davis, and Nick Drake.

By: Allen Michie Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Rock Tagged: Adam Ellsworth, Allen Michie, Brett Milano, Bryter Later, Elton John, Humble Pie, Live-Evil, Madman Across the Water, Miles-Davis, Milo Miles, Nick Drake, Paul and Linda McCartney, Ram, Rockin’ the Fillmore

Jazz Album Review: “Merci Miles! Live at Vienne” — Of Historic as well as Musical Value

Davis solos less on Merci Miles than I wish he had, but he plays with precision, taste, and expression.

By: Allen Michie Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: Allen Michie, Merci Miles! Live at Vienne, Miles-Davis

Jazz CD Review: Miles Davis’ “Rubberband” — Stretch Your Ears

Heard as a Miles Davis record pure and simple, Rubberband is one of the strongest from the comeback period.

By: Allen Michie Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: Allen Michie, Miles-Davis, Rubberband

Jazz Album Review: Miles Davis — An Excellent Homage to the Master

This album does an excellent job of recapturing some of the glory of the original Miles Davis recordings.

By: Steve Feeney Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: Dave Liebman, Miles-Davis, On The Corner Live: The Music Of Miles Davis, Steve Feeney

Rock Preview: Lettuce — Stirring up a “Witches Stew” at the House of Blues

“I want our music to be genre-less. Actually I want it to be genre-more.”

By: Scott McLennan Filed Under: Featured, Preview, Rock Tagged: Lettuce, Miles-Davis, Scott McLennan, Witches Brew

Jazz CD Review: Miles Davis at Newport — Indispensable

Miles Davis at Newport, 1955-1975 has its drawbacks, but I wouldn’t want to be without this four-disc collection

By: Michael Ullman Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: 1955-1975: The Bootleg Series, Columbia/Legacy, Miles Davis at Newport, Miles-Davis, Newport, Volume 4

Theater Interview: Actor Marc Labrèche — On Robert Lepage’s “Needles and Opium”

“It is just when we delve deeper into the sorrows of our lives, the sorrows we have all endured, that our humor saves us.”

By: Robert Israel Filed Under: Featured, Theater Tagged: ArtsEmerson, drugs, Jean Cocteau, Marc Labrèche, Miles-Davis, Needles and Opium, Robert Lepage

Music Review: Becoming Coltrane: Part One

By J. R. Carroll This review/commentary will focus on Coltrane’s recordings with the Miles Davis Quintet for Columbia (in October 1955 and June and September 1956) and Prestige (in November 1955 and May and October 1956), as well as a variety of sideman dates and nominally leaderless sessions, many of which have recently been reissued […]

By: J. R. Carroll Filed Under: Jazz Tagged: bebop, blowing-session, Blue-Note, Charlie-Parker, Columbia, Concord-Music-Group, discography, Elmo-Hope, Henry-Martin, Interplay, J-R-Carroll, Jazz, John-Coltrane, Johnny-Griffin, Lewis-Porter, Mal-Waldron, Miles-Davis, Mosaic-Records, Music, Paul-Chambers, Pepper-Adams, Prestige, Riverside, Sonny-Rollins, Tadd-Dameron, Thelonious Monk

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