Do you remember what it was? Do you remember the tune, the song, the album, the artist that started you on the path to becoming a jazz fan? What was it about that particular item that made it all make sense? In this post, the first in a series of posts dedicated to the songs [...]
Look out world. After having written a post about an original Blue Note album, here comes my first post about an original Prestige album. Mama I made it. The Music The Tune: "Airegin" Recorded: 29 June, 1954 in Hackensack, NJ Personnel: Miles Davis- Trumpet Sonny Rollins- Tenor Sax Horace Silver- Piano Percy Heath- Bass Kenny [...]
This is one of my favorite Miles albums. Tastefully recorded under electric circumstances, this live album comes from a 1964 benefit concert, and the material from this concert was put out on two records, this being one of them. Interestingly, Columbia decided to put the more upbeat, faster tunes on one album (Four And More) [...]
Miles Davis. What's there to be said about Miles that hasn't been already said? He was a cool dude who played an even cooler trumpet. Throughout his nearly fifty-year career, Miles touched on and explored numerous styles of jazz, from bebop in the 1940's to a fusion of rock, electric, and jazz in the 1970's. [...]
It's A Raggy Waltz 