Jimi Hendrix and Miles Davis wanted Paul McCartney to form supergroup
Sir Paul McCartney missed out on the chance to form a supergroup with fellow music icons Jimi Hendrix and Miles Davis in 1969 - because he was on holiday.
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A Supergroup That Could Have Been: Paul McCartney, Jimi Hendrix
The music universe did not know it at the time but it was deprived of one of the most unique endeavors ever proposed.
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Jimi Hendrix, Miles Davis, Paul McCartney , Tony Williams: Jimi Hendrix, Miles Davis, And Paul McCartney Almost A Supergroup
As Jimi Hendrix's bizarre character and virtuosic guitar playing beguiled audiences across the world at Woodstock Festival and Monterrey Pop ... Read the full article at...
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New DVD: Miles Davis, Quincy Jones at Montreux in '91
In their last collaboration, the pair revisited material Davis recorded with Gil Evans
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Miles Davis: So What - The Complete 1960 Amsterdam Concerts
Some performances get talked about decades after they happened. It's all about "you had to be there" and if you would believe all the people who claimed to be present a...
→ 27 December 2012 4.58pm — Comment on this
Classic jazz in spotlight as Moody jazz fest salutes Miles Davis, Gil Evans
There were French horns at the James Moody Democracy of Jazz Festival last night.
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Eddie Bert obituary
American jazz trombonist and big-band sideman who played with Stan Kenton and Benny GoodmanThe American jazz trombonist Eddie Bert has died aged 90. A big-band sideman, B...
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Miles Davis Quintet: Swiss Radio Days – review
(TCB)Davis completed recording the most celebrated jazz album in history, the revolutionary Kind of Blue, in April 1959. It changed the way jazz would be played and heard...
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How to invent shoegaze without trying
A week after joking at a party that he was in a band, Rudy Tambala found himself at the start of a journey that produced some of the 80s' most extraordinary musicThe way ...
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Carlos Santana: 'My daughter beat me at Guitar Hero'
He once did so much acid he thought his guitar was a snake. But don't worry, these days Carlos Santana is more interested in singing through his fingers and comparing him...
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Enrico Rava: Rava on the Dance Floor – review
(ECM)It's taken Enrico Rava, the Miles Davis-inspired trumpeter from Trieste, until his 70s to hit the dance floor. This live album is dedicated to Michael Jackson, who R...
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Readers recommend: songs about circles – results
The time has come round again for this week's RR playlistAnother week, another Readers Recommend theme, regular as clockwork. Last week's call for songs about circles sol...
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A guide to Olga Neuwirth's music
This remarkable creator – of orchestral pieces and chamber works as well as hybrids of film and performance art – draws on a plethora of influences, yet devis...
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