Miles Davis News

“I guess to see what would happen.”

It was a gentle evening at Steve's Guitars. On stage, ambient, wordless tunes were flowing. via Glenwood Post Independent

If you didn't know better, the slightly built, unassuming guy in the gray sweater and jeans might have been your neighbor ready for his Saturday chores. via Reading Eagle/Reading Times

“It was such a great experience.”

Burlingame High School graduate Steven Lugerner has performed jazz for a packed house at Carnegie Hall, and now he's completed a recording and released it over the Internet. via Inside Bay Area

The word classic is thrown around haphazardly nowadays, as it can be used to describe a YouTube video or a clever pun. via The Eastern Progress

Posted by: Ken Blanchard - 03/29/2008 11:16 PM If you want to appear cool among jazz cats, just refer to "Nat Cole," without using the famous entertainer's nickname. via KELO-TV Sioux Falls

From the start, it's been a wonderful ride for jazz drummer Billy Hart. Beginning with when he first started his career, he scored a major gig: Flying from his Philadelphia home to California to play with ... via Kalamazoo Gazette

With a career that spanned six decades and spearheaded every significant stylistic innovation during that time , Davis remains the genre's and music's quintessential modernist. via The Austin Chronicle

The cool was born in New York. It was in Manhattan that Miles Davis and the nine-piece group he convened in the late 1940s forged a tightly understated alternative to the hot expressionism of bebop and recorded ... via New York Times

“He's just one of the true great fiddle players”

This January, local jazz guitarist Bruce Forman and his band Cow Bop looked out at a sea of cowboys clad in cowboy hats, bolo ties and shiny brass belt buckles before performing at the National Cowboy Poetry ... via The Coast Weekly

BATTLES OF THE SAXES It's a generational cross-town battle this week with tenor saxophonist Pharoah Sanders , a veteran of the John Coltrane '60s, at the Jazz Bakery and alto saxophonist Kenny Garrett , a ... via Los Angeles Times

“To be bringing Dudamel, who is the hottest young conductor worldwide, with the Israeli Philharmonic, is unbelievable.”

The Kimmel Center has come out with its 2008-2009 season. Anne Ewers , president and CEO of the Kimmel Center, says this town is going to rock: "There is something for everyone in what we offer. via KYW-AM Philadelphia

“He is to rock "n' roll what Miles Davis is to jazz.”

The keynote address to this year's South by Southwest Music Conference wasn't a speech. via Sun-Journal

“I always felt he was to rock 'n”

Lou Reed is notorious for a brusque tone that sometimes borders on surly, dating all the way back to his famously cantankerous interviews with Creem writer Lester Bangs in the '70s.

It was a rare treat, then, to hear the Velvet Underground front man and influential solo artist in (relatively) good humor Thursday morning at the 22nd South by Southwest Music and Media Conference, where he talked about his career and the state of the music industry in a loosely structured keynote 'conversation' with record producer Hal Willner. Read more

“You tell a story through notes and how you play them.”

From Eric Clapton to Miles Davis to Yo-Yo Ma, we've long heard that when musicians improvise, they're engaged in an intensely personal pursuit. via WisInfo

Sitting in the jazz cafe along with a few friends, sipping Chamomile tea, singer/visual artist Tony Adamo enters the stage offering us a sweet deal. via All About Jazz

“It's one thing to come up with a ditty. It's another thing entirely to come up with a masterpiece, an hourlong idea after idea”

American jazz trumpeter Miles Davis is shown in concert in the old Roman Amphitheater in Caesarea, North of Tel Aviv, Israel, in this June 1, 1987 photo. via Lubbock Avalanche

Posted by: Ken Blanchard - 03/09/2008 3:40 AM Here is a nice clip from 1967 , featuring Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter on bass, and Tony Williams on drums. via KELO-TV Sioux Falls

Celebrations of the 50th anniversaries of two landmark jazz albums, John Coltrane's "Giant Steps" and Miles Davis' "Kind of Blue" are among the thousands of events planned for the 2008-09 Jazz at Lincoln Center ... via Variety

“Public Library of Science ONE.”

Improvising music is personal; brain scans show how March 7, 2008 From Eric Clapton to Miles Davis to Yo-Yo Ma, we've long heard that when musicians improvise, they're engaged in an intensely personal pursuit. via Star-Gazette.COM

Miles Davis, Miles Smiles , and the Invention of Post Bop By Jeremy Yudkin Indiana University Press Of all the various styles of jazz, "post bop" has been the slipperiest to define for my SCPS classes. via J.B. Spins