Paul Chambers News

Any chance to see archival footage of Miles Davis in performance is a treat, mainly because, for a career that spanned six decades, so little of it seems available.

Segregating Coltrane's sessions as a leader and placing them in chronological order presents a clearer picture of an artist who, while not advancing in the giant steps he would in another couple of years, was already demonstrating at least some of the building blocks that would become increasingly evident in years to come.

Following the success of Bill Evans: The Complete Village Vanguard Recordings, 1961 the Concord Music Group has slated for release several historically complete thematic sets.

This was not the plaintive, lyrical Coltrane of 'Round Midnight' and 'Bye, Bye, Blackbird,' This was Coltrane at his next level... He appeared on a bandstand that was at least two football fields away, at the Randall's Island Jazz Festival in 1960.