Tagged: Music Reviews

1:27pm

Wed January 30, 2013
Jazz & Blues

A 1969 bootleg unearths Miles Davis' 'lost' quintet

Originally published on Wed January 30, 2013 3:18 pm

Credit Courtesy of the artist

After a slew of multidisc sets devoted to key points in the career of Miles Davis, you'd think Columbia Records would have unearthed every speck of consequential music by now. But not quite.

This week, Columbia brings out Live in Europe 1969: The Bootleg Series Vol. 2 — a three-CD, one-DVD set devoted to the jazz maverick's "lost" quintet, his touring band from 1969.

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3:03pm

Thu July 7, 2011
Jazz Reviews

James Farm: Jazz heavyweights band together

Originally published on Wed July 6, 2011 3:29 pm

Credit Jimmy Katz

In 2009, four busy jazz musicians — saxophonist Joshua Redman, pianist Aaron Parks, bassist Matt Penman and drummer Eric Harland — gathered on a rare off day to see what they might cook up together. Out of that came a band they call James Farm, and an album of the same name.

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