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Music matters: Fifty years later Davis is still Miles ahead of the …
Edinburgh Evening News
No one could have guessed that. This shouldn’t have gone on to sell more than four million copies. This was jazz music after all the sole preserve of goatee-stroking black beret-wearing beatniks. It’s almost a cliché to say but Kind f Blue is the one jazz album owned by those who don’t like jazz. Some people don’t like to admit that but it’s the way it is. Not without reason this 1959 release is the best-selling jazz album ever.
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Jazz music
Akron Beacon Journal
Multi Cultural Music Fest — Doors open at 7 p. Saturday John Hay High School 2075 Stokes Blvd. Featuring Gerald Albright and Kirk Whalum.
Robert Glasper Loves the Groove
PopMatters
There are so many different elements that make it up. You have to have a certain amount of chops to play it correctly because you’re gonna have to play fast at some point. You don’t need to play fast in R&B or in that kind of thing or have the facility as you do when you’re playing jazz music. ” However if asked to elaborate on what kind of music he plays he politely responds “‘h I play other kind of music as well. ’”If the harmonic repetitiveness and lack of solos in R&B or hip-hop music leave some bored Glasper quickly disagrees. “See that’s the thing.
Music Review | Marc Ribot’s Sun Ship
New York Times
It resurfaced on Wednesday night at Rose Live Music in Williamsburg Brooklyn drawing largely from the album. “Sun Ship” was recorded in late August 1965 a time of steep transition for Coltrane. Two months earlier he had made his large-canvas free-jazz album “Ascension. ” He still had his quartet but his music was pulling away from its foundations. n one level “Sun Ship” reflects Coltrane’s attunement to younger saxophonists like Ayler. n another it represents a moment of late grace for his landmark first band. (It was released in 1971 four years after Coltrane’s death.
Willie Nelson goes ‘Classic’
San Jose Mercury News
place_ad_here(“adPosBox”); sound pioneered by Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys. “It all fits together” Nelson says. “Western swing is just jazz. The musicians Bob had the musicians Asleep at the Wheel has “. these are jazz musicians who can play anything; it just so happens they settled in on western swing… these are jazz musicians who can play anything; it just so happens they settled in on western swing. ” Having recently passed the three-quarters-of-a-century mark Nelson decided the time was right to return to that fertile trove of songs in “American Classic” released earlier this month. Nelson is surrounded by a crew of jazz pros starting with Joe Sample the esteemed Crusaders keyboardist who wrote the arrangements. Nelson is nothing if not laid-back about revisiting songs that have been recorded by many of the greatest singers of the last century. He has been down this road before.
Jazz Listings
New York Times
55 Bar 55 Christopher Street West Village (212) 929-9883 55bar. com; no cover with a two-drink minimum. (Chinen)20090827★ JHN SURMAN QUARTET (Tuesday through Thursday) The baritone and soprano saxophonist John Surman has long been a leading figure in British jazz and improvised-music circles and he doesn’t surface here nearly often enough. He’s celebrating the release of “Brewster’s Rooster” (ECM) with that album’s sterling cast: the guitarist John Abercrombie the drummer Jack DeJohnette and the bassist Drew Gress. ) At 8:30 and 11 p.