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Miles Davis
Bitches Brew Live (Sony) by Phil Freeman Buy Bitches Brew Live from Amazon During the six years between Miles Davis‘s full-scale embrace of electric music in 1969 and his retirement in 1975, he...
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The 50 Greatest Saxophonists…EVER!!! 20-11
We’re heading into the home stretch with our countdown of the 50 Greatest Saxophonists…EVER!!! Here are #s 20-11, followed by a bonus list: Rudresh Mahanthappa picks his 5 favorite saxophonists! 20....
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Miles Davis Live In 1971
Photo: Anthony Barboza Here’s some amazing video of Miles Davis live in Oslo on November 9, 1971. This is a band that was never documented in the recording studio—Gary Bartz on soprano and alto sax;...
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Miles Davis In 1970
Is it weird that 1970 has become the most documented year of Miles Davis’s life? At the time, that wasn’t the case at all. He only released two albums that year—Bitches Brew, recorded the previous...
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Two Octets
The octet is an uncommon format for a jazz group. With a standard rhythm section of piano, bass, and drums, that leaves five spots left to fill, and that can make for a cluttered bandstand....
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Best Jazz Of 2015: 15-11
We’re at the midpoint of our countdown of the 25 best jazz albums of 2015. (Click to read Part 1; Click to read Part 2.) Let’s keep going! 15. Nick Hempton, Catch And Release Amazon Australian alto...
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BA Podcast 6: Stanley Cowell
Burning Ambulance has launched a podcast series, which will feature interviews with artists from the realms of jazz, modern composition, metal, noise, and whatever else interests us—much like the site...
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McCoy Tyner In The ’70s: Part 1
by Phil Freeman Pianist McCoy Tyner is one of the most important musicians in modern jazz. He first popped up on some folks’ radar as a member of the Jazztet, a group co-led by flugelhornist Art Farmer...
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McCoy Tyner In The ’70s: Part 2
by Phil Freeman This week, we’re exploring the 19 albums McCoy Tyner released between 1970 and 1979, all but two of them on the Milestone label. Here’s Part 1 of our rundown, in case you missed it....
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McCoy Tyner In The ’70s: Part 3
by Phil Freeman All this week, we’re looking at the 19 albums pianist McCoy Tyner recorded between 1970 and 1979. Here are Part 1 and Part 2. On August 31 and September 1, 1974, Tyner and his road...
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McCoy Tyner In The ’70s: Part 5
by Phil Freeman This is the final installment of our series looking at every album McCoy Tyner recorded between 1970 and 1979. In case you need to catch up, here’s Part 1; here’s Part 2; here’s Part 3;...
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Sonny Rollins might be the greatest tenor saxophonist who ever lived. But in the 21st century, his reputation mostly rests on the albums he made in the 1950s and 1960s, on the Blue Note, Riverside,...
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Chiminyo is a London-based drummer and producer who works entirely from behind a drum kit combined with a laptop and self-coded software. Each drum hit triggers a synth or a sample, allowing him to...
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In the introduction to his 1985 book Rhythm-a-Ning, Gary Giddins writes, “When we talk about a renaissance in jazz, we are talking about a wealth of interesting music, not a broad-scaled awakening of...
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