Scott Williams played two pieces of spacey music, one from big band leader Don Ellis, then one from The North Sea. Ellis specialized in complex time signatures, and was u...
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Late legends Miles Davis and Edith Piaf are to be honoured this summer Jun12 with an international stamp tribute Officials at the U S Postal Service and their counterpart...
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It's been 12 years since the reclusive soul genius released Voodoo, and now there is mounting evidence he's ready to re-enter the game, albeit in his own weird wayReclusi...
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Actor says his long anticipated film will be a 'cubist' take on the jazz legend's later life and not a conventional biopicAlmost two years after it was announced that Don...
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Jazz legend Miles Davis one-time saxophonist Sam Rivers has died in Florida aged 88 The influential musician who also performed with Billie Holiday died from pneumonia on...
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Bishopsgate Centre, LondonYou can generate all kinds of similes listening to The Necks: a picture gallery, an urban landscape, the surface of the moon. But the metaphor t...
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Pints of beer, a table, a pig – anything can be a musical instrument for the ever innovative Hermeto Pascoal. 'In my head there is always more stuff,' he tells Tom ...
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The director who brought slain rapper Notorious B I G s life story to the big screen is reportedly working on a Miles Davis biopic Men of Honor director George Tillman Jr...
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To a jazz fan, the combination of the names Medeski Scofield Martin and Wood is inherently intriguing. Between the famous trio’s ability to craft beat-driven, catch...
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The man behind Biggie Smalls film Notorious to helm picture based on Dark Magus, a book by Davis's eldest son, GregoryA biopic of jazz legend Miles Davis looks set to go ...
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(Deutsche Grammophon)French accordion maestro Galliano brings this band to the London jazz festival on 17 November and the mix is certainly tempting – Nino Rota's t...
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People music somehow manages to express an entire decade in seven short minutes of syncopated grooving, sweet melody, angry stabs of funk and then glorious noise People M...
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(ECM)There's probably some arcane formula that proves the presence of trumpeter Enrico Rava, trombonist Gianlucca Petrella and young pianist Giovanni Guidi on the same se...
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Pearl Jam Twenty, Cameron Crowe's long awaited documentary about the band, is finally in stores today. The Bridge School Concerts 25th Anniversary Edition, which features...
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