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... Crow (um...), Elton John , Yo-Yo Ma, Bruce Springsteen (not the God but certainly a god), Jay-Z and jazz greats Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Charlie Parker. The story notes that one of Obama's favorite songs is Dylan's ' Maggie's Farm ' whose ...
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... last year, is returning with guitarist and fellow jazz-rock pioneer John McLaughlin, who was his bandmate in Miles Davis's band during the trumpeter's innovative period of the late 60s, which delivered albums like the classic Bitches Brew . Corea's ...
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Nat Adderley; Credit: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images
... by Nat, often drew from R&B and bebop in a way that came to be known as "soul jazz." Among their champions was Miles Davis , who immediately recognized the Adderley brothers' talent and urged manager John Levy to handle their careers. A 'Straw Boss' ...
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... by Nat, often drew from R&B and bebop in a way that came to be known as "soul jazz." Among their champions was Miles Davis , who immediately recognized the Adderley brothers' talent and urged manager John Levy to handle their careers. A 'Straw Boss' ...
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The Return of Evan Horne: Tangled Up in "Blue"
... Hughes may have been involved in the writing and recording of Birth of the Cool and Kind of Blue , the seminal Miles Davis albums, but never credited or compensated for his work. And so another mystery begins, paralleling an even more amazing ...
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... Herbie Hancock - Inventions and Dimensions, Maiden Voyage Brad Shepik - The Flood Tony Williams - Believe It Miles Davis - Miles Davis in Europe (Live), Miles Smiles, Kinda Blue, Bitches Brew, Nefertiti Don Grolnick - Medianoche Kenny Burrell - ...
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An Event Apart: The Framework Age
... provide ways to shape behavior. Modal jazz: framework for creative instability and improvisation. Pioneered by Miles Davis on Kind of Blue. Modal jazz is a framework. It provides a rough set of broad strokes. In classical music all the notes most be ...
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... of musicians - Jaco Pastorius, Mike Stern, George Duke - and encouraged more established figures, such as Miles Davis, Gil Evans and Joe Zawinul, to reinvent their careers. The jazz-funk guitarist Hiram Bullock, who has died aged 52, was one of the ...
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Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood also writes for chamber orchestra
... first performance on the West Coast. You read it right. Greenwood, whose influences range from jazz trumpeter Miles Davis to French visionary composer Olivier Messiaen, has penned the work "Popcorn Superhet Receiver" for a 36-piece string orchestra. ...
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Me And Mrs. Jones - Billy Paul
... broadcasts in Philadelphia at age 11 and had an extensive jazz background. He worked with Dinah Washington, Miles Davis, and Roberta Flack, as well as Charlie Parker, before forming a trio and recording for Jubilee. His original 1959 recording of ...
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Chicago's New Sir Miles Davis Academy Rolls-Out Official...
Miles Davis Properties, LLC: WHO: A Producer/musician Erin Davis , son of Miles Davis , Nef Drum Productions CEO /Chicago native, Vince Wilburn, Jr.
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... to raise the listener's spirits. Unlike many other retro-fusion bands, Oddjob's explicit debt to trumpeter Miles Davis's electric innovations on Bitches Brew (Columbia, 1969) and beyond is slight. Instead, the band's style is shaped by the work of a ...
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Return to Forever: United Palace Theatre, New York, NY
... attendees, RTF mitigated this tacit expression of ego, at least to a degree, with the pre-recorded strains of Miles Davis that heralded their appearance. Yet it might've been more appropriate still for the group to play a tribute to the man with the ...
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Stars Line Up for Bernie Mac Service
... my husband's mother." -- Madonna fears Guy Ritchie's mom. Tony Barson, WireImage.com "There's brilliant jazz - Miles Davis. And there's brilliant rock - Coldplay. And there's brilliant rap - Jiggaman!" -- Jay-Z , tooting his own horn. Gareth ...
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Carl Fischer and Organic Groove Ensemble at Mirelle's
... once the "Cork 'n' Bib" nite spot, which featured extended stay jazz acts such as Maynard Ferguson's big band, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie and Horace Silver, among many others. Fischer and his mates did everything but bring those spirits back to ...
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Babylon set in N.O. between hurricanes
... a couple of northern transplants, Ed Flank and Ariel May and their children, Miles (named for jazz musician Miles Davis) and Ella (named for jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald). Ed and Ariel have moved to Orchid Street from Minnesota. Ed is a "house ...
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... t mostly it's Wilkes in a loungey neo-soul/R&B mode with saxophonist Chelsea Baratz, bassist Junius Paul, former Miles Davis keyboardist Robert Irving III and others. (David R. Adler) Disqus
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... the streets in September as a five-LP vinyl box set, via Columbia Records. Later in the fall, when the legendary Miles Davis album "Kind of Blue" gets the deluxe box set reissue treatment from Legacy records, a vinyl corollary will hit the streets ...
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Reminder: Patchwork album release party
... What kind of jazz? I got to the point where I was pretty comfy with standards. I was really into Wes Montgomery, Miles Davis, Dave Brubeck. But my interests shifted and I started doing really minimalist folk music. Why did you drop out of the ...
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Jazz At Sherlock's August 29th
... sax, Glenn Martin on trombone, and Wayne Ray on alto sax and flute. We will play tunes by such composers as Miles Davis, Jobim, the Duke, Gershwin, Gerry Mulligan, and a host of others. You can drive in less than 30 minutes using this magic route: ...
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