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Miles Davis

  • Jazz at 100 Hour 83: Road to Fusion (1967 – 1972)

    Oct 19th, 2018 | By Russell Perry
    Tags: Gary Burton, Joe Zawinul, John McLaughlin, Larry Coryell, Larry Young, Miles Davis, Tony Williams

    Miles Davis Jazz-rock fusion or, often, simply “fusion” emerged in the late 60s as the child of many mothers. Characterized by electric instruments and rock rhythms, it could be loud and fast, but just as likely, could be melodic or lyrical or funky. The Charles Lloyd Quartet, the Gary Burton Quartet, Tony Williams Lifetime and […]

  • Jazz at 100 Hour 77: Miles Davis and the Second Great Quintet (1963 – 1968)

    Sep 7th, 2018 | By Russell Perry
    Tags: George Coleman, Herbie Hancock, Miles Davis, Ron Carter, Tony Williams, Wayne Shorter

    Miles Davis – Herbie Hancock – Wayne Shorter Miles Davis, through his adoption of modal music, participated in the gradual liberation that resulted in the free music of the jazz avant-garde – liberation from chord changes, from rhythm, from harmony, from melody, from structure. Yet, although he continued to explore broadly, he was public in […]

  • Jazz at 100 Hour 59: Jazz and Bossa Nova (1958 – 1963)

    May 4th, 2018 | By Russell Perry
    Tags: Antonio Carlos Jobim, Astrud Gilberto, Charlie Byrd, Coleman Hawkins, Dizzy Gillespie, Gil Evans, João Gilberto, Joe Henderson, Kenny Dorham, Luiz Bonfá, Miles Davis, Stan Getz, Wayne Shorter

    João Gilberto – Antônio Carlos Jobim – Stan Getz Fueled by the 1959 international release of the movie Black Orpheus and through reports from US jazz players returning from South American tours, the Brazilian music Bossa Nova (Portugese for “new trend” or “new wave”) found its way into American jazz in the early 1960s, becoming […]

  • Jazz at 100 Hour 52: Miles Davis & the First Great Quintet (Sextet) (1956 – 1959)

    Mar 9th, 2018 | By Russell Perry
    Tags: Bill Evans, Cannonball Addreley, Gil Evans, Jimmy Cobb, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Paul Chambers, Philly Joe Jones, Red Garland

    Bill Evans – Paul Chambers-  Miles Davis – John Coltrane – Cannonball Adderley Miles Davis was more than a trumpet player, composer and taste-maker – he led some of the greatest bands in the history of jazz. In this hour, we will feature his first great quintet of John Coltrane on tenor, Red Garland on piano, […]

  • Jazz at 100 Hour 46: The Songbooks (1950 – 1959)

    Jan 19th, 2018 | By Russell Perry
    Tags: Anita O'Day, Art Blakey, Charlie Parker, Chet Baker, Cole Porter, Ella Fitzgerald, George Gershwin, Gil Evans, Harry "Sweets" Edison, Irving Berlin, Jazz Messengers, Lerner & Loewe, Louis Armstrong, Mel Torme, Miles Davis, My Fair Lady, Porgy and Bess, Shelly Manne, Sonny Criss

    Ella Fitzgerald Songs from what came to be known as the Great American Songbook, have been part of jazz perhaps since The Original Dixieland Jazz Band began recording Irving Berlin compositions. In the 1940s, singer Lee Wiley recorded several collections of 78s, known as “albums” – a name that stuck into the LP era, focused […]

  • Jazz at 100 / The Jazz Messenger – The Porgy and Bess Show

    Dec 11th, 2017 | By Russell Perry
    Tags: Archie Shepp, Arkestra, Ben Webster, Bill Evans, Bill Frisell, Billie Holiday, Branford Marsalis, Cab Calloway, Coleman Hawkins, DuBose Heyward, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Free Bridge Quintet, George Gershwin, Gerald Wilson, Gil Evans, Herbie Hancock, Ira Gershwin, Jimmy Smith, Joe Henderson, John Coltrane, Johnny Hartman, Joni Mitchell, Kurt Elling, Louis Armstrong, Mal Waldron, Mel Torme, Miles Davis, New Vision Sax Ensemble, Nina Simone, Patricia Barber, Porgy & Bess, Sammy Davis Jr., Sonny Rollins, Sun Ra

    Cab Calloway as Sportin’ Life In the mid-1930’s, George Gershwin acquired the rights to the play Porgy by DuBose Heyward, based on his own novel of 1925. Gershwin’s great American opera, Porgy and Bess debuted in 1935 with lyrics by Ira Gershwin and DuBose Heyward. For some period of time, the themes of domestic violence, […]

  • Jazz at 100 Hour 39: The Birth of Hard Bop (1950 – 1958)

    Nov 24th, 2017 | By Russell Perry
    Tags: Art Blakey, Benny Golson, Bobby Timmons, Clifford Brown, Hard Bop, Horace Silver, Max Roach, Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, The Jazz Messengers

    Horace Silver While the “Cool School” was emerging on the West Coast from its roots in Bix and Pres as codified by Miles in “The Birth of the Cool” sessions of 1949 – 1950, what became known as Hard Bop, a gospel- and blues-influenced variant was growing from Bebop in the east. “If cool jazz […]

  • Jazz at 100 Hour 34: Miles and Friends – The “Birth” of the Cool (1947 – 1950)

    Oct 20th, 2017 | By Russell Perry
    Tags: Birth of the Cool, Charlie Parker, Chet Baker, Gerry Mulligan, Gil Evans, JJ Johnson, John Lewis, Kai winding, Lee Konitz, Max Roach, Miles Davis, MJQ, Modern Jazz Quartet

    Miles Davis – Lennie Tristano – Gerry Mulligan The torrid pace of bebop improvisations reached a point in the late 1940s that prompted a musical reconsideration and Miles Davis was there at the conception. Davis had been with the Charlie Parker Quintet since 1945, when he began to woodshed with composer/arrangers John Lewis, Gerry Mulligan […]

  • Jazz at 100 Hour 25: Yardbird – The Savoy and Dial Recordings of Charlie Parker (1945 – 1948)

    Aug 18th, 2017 | By Russell Perry
    Tags: Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, jazz at 100, JJ Johnson, John Lewis, Max Roach, Miles Davis

    Charlie “Yardbird” Parker – Miles Davis Emerging from the Jay McShann Orchestra from Kansas City and relentlessly curious about how to play the new music he heard in his head, Charlie Parker found sympathetic players in New York, especially Dizzy Gillespie. In November of 1945, Bird, as he was universally known, began to record with […]

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