Artist: Miles Davis

Loving covers of popular music is a grand jazz tradition. From blues vamps to show tunes to popular song of the day, jazz musicians have explored the harmonic opportunities found in pop music. Results, as you might expect, have varied. Miles Davis' version of "Someday My Prince Will Come" became a jazz standard. On the other hand, did the world [...]

Miles Davis. En 1969, Jimmi Hendrix y Miles Davis unieron fuerzas junto a Tony Willims (baterista del segundo) para formar un súper grupo. El trío tenía planes para entrar al estudio en el mes de octubre, y tenían muy claro a quién querían para la posición de bajista: a Paul McCartney . El 22 de octubre de 1969, le mandaron un telegrama al Beatle que decía: Grabaremos un LP juntos este fin de semana. ¿Qué te parece venir a tocar el [...]

Kick start the week, with Mr B's selection of downtempo loving. Enjoy! Brian Eno, Lizard Point Download here (Right Click, Save As). Badun, Small Things Download here (Right Click, Save As). Miles Davis, Blue In Green Download here (Right Click, Save As). System, Park Download here (Right Click, Save As). Mind Over MIDI, Home Download [...]

¿Os imagináis qué hubiera pasado si hubiéramos juntado a Jimi Hendrix, Miles Davis y Paul McCartney en una misma banda? Según apunta la edición estadounidense de la Rolling Stone , Hendrix, Davis y el baterista Tony Williams -uno de los más influyentes del jazz de los 60 y baterista de Miles- llegaron a ensayar juntos en el año 1969. Como les faltaba un bajista, no se les ocurrió otra cosa que mandarle un telegrama a Paul McCartney para que se uniera a la fiesta. Desafortunadamente, Sir Paul estaba de vacaciones y nunca acabó viajando a Estados Unidos. [...]

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 http://www.prefixmag.com/news/ jimi-hendrix-miles-davis-and-p aul-mccartney-almost/73664/

Jimi Hendrix y Miles Davis pretendían armar un supergrupo con Paul McCartney En 1969, Jimi Hendrix , Miles Davis  y Tony Williams , ensayaban juntos con la idea de grabar un disco, aunque los tres coincidían en que sería sumamente atractivo si se uniera Paul McCarteny al proyecto. Sus poderosas mentes pretendían formar un supergrupo, quizás el mejor de la historia. El 21 de octubre de ese mismo año, Hendrix envió un telegrama al estudio de la discográfica de The Beatles , Apple [...]

Eat your heart out Asia, this would have been the supergroup to beat. Jimi Hendrix and Miles Davis had it in mind to start jamming together and according to Rolling Stone , the two, along with jazz drummer Tony Williams, wanted to tap bassist and world-renowned legend Paul McCartney for the group. On October 21st, 1969, Hendrix actually sent a telegram to The Beatles' studio Apple Records hoping to grab the attention of McCartney. "We are recording and LP together this weekend in New York," the telegram [...]

Have a tissue handy? Good 'cause you're gonna need one. Until recently, it was not known that once upon a smokey morning in 1969, Miles Davis , Paul McCartney , Jimi Hendrix and drummer Tony Williams would have stood under one roof to record perhaps the most eargasmic jam ever.  This is like an auditory Justice League. With the musical legends each playing their mastered instruments, no recording studio in the world would have been ready to equip such an undertaking. A telegram has been discovered with a request for Paul McCartney's presence on bass for [...]

Filed under: News , Holy Hell LONDON (AP) - Miles and Jimi. Jimi and Miles. Fans of the late trumpet and guitar masters have long known that Miles Davis and Jimi Hendrix had been making plans to record together in the year before Hendrix's sudden death in 1970. But less attention has been paid to the bass player they were trying to recruit: Paul McCartney , who was busy with another band at the time. [...]

A must if you enjoy exceptional piano. This recording is some 30+ years old, which is early in Keith Jarrett's career. Although, it is after Jarrett decided the digital world wasn't for him. After a short gig with Miles Davis on the electric keyboard, Jarrett swore he'd never play anything that had a plug.  Rumor has it that this piano at Köln was damaged and that Jarrett was ill, but you’d never know it by listening. Jazz aficionados will tell you this is not jazz, which I guess means that it does not have syncopated [...]

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Jonas Fehr aka Fehrplay has been making some noise in recent months with hit releases like " Incognito " and " Nightride ." Jonas is a very versatile producer whose musical productions go beyond dance music. He cultivates the use of different genres and is consistently changing his sound. Having garnered the support from the  likes of Eric Prydz and Pete Tong, it's only a matter of time before the London0-based DJ/producer causes some commotion in the US. This Saturday he joins Pete Tong and Riva Starr at the Avalon in Los Angeles. I caught up with him prior to [...]

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In 2011 Sony issued Volume 1 in the Miles Davis bootleg series - three audio CD's and a DVD of his famous quintet with Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, Wayne Shorter and Tony Williams in full 1967 force. (Read my droolings over that box here - http://ripplemusic.blogspot.co m/2011/10/miles-davis-live-in- europe-1967-bootleg.html ). I had high hopes for Volume 2 but this box totally blew me away. For decades I'd heard of the "lost quintet" that Miles led in 1969 with Wayne Shorter, Dave Holland, Chick Corea and Jack DeJohnette. I figured that the live show from 1970 at The Fillmore East was all [...]

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Filed under: Exclusive , The Hit List , Spinner Says Arcade Fire Vinyl and Cocktails is a site that pairs good music with good drinks. As a guest post for Spinner, editors Cameron and Levi were kind enough to share their picks for the 25 albums you have to own on vinyl. Here is their list, and follow their adventures here . Below is a list of what we consider [...]

At this point the importance of Miles Davis groundbreaking work on his 1959 release Kind of Blue is well-established. Recorded over two dates in 1959 (March 2nd and April 22nd at Columbia's 30th Street Studio) and featuring the legendary "First Sextet" lineup of  Davis, Julian Adderley, John Coltrane, Wynton Kelly/Bill Evans (Kelly was on "Freddie Freeloader"), Paul Chambers and James Cobb. This is the band that Davis started his experimentation with modal jazz and the move away from his hard bop style. Though Kind of Blue is heralded as the pinnacle of modal style, Davis had [...]

Photo by Alan Leeds' friend. Geoffrey Dicker and Alan Leeds Alan Leeds is a god!  If you like funky music, you could argue that Alan Leeds has had (and is still having) one of the best careers possible in the music industry.  In the 70s, he road managed James Brown and he later won a Grammy for his liner notes on a James Brown anthology ("Star Time").  He tour managed Prince from 1983 to 1992 and became the head of Prince's Paisley Park Studios.  His brother [...]

We were rather fascinated to see the recipe for Freddie Mercury's favorite chicken dhansak turn up on the internet recently, courtesy of his onetime personal assistant, who published the secret behind the dish at the late singer's official website . We're not surprised to discover that Mercury was a good cook, nor that his favorite recipe draws on his Parsi heritage — and anyway, the whole thing got us thinking about what some of our other favorite musicians might eat. Cooking is an extension of creativity, after all, and as it turns out, there's a heap of good recipes to [...]

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