Miles Davis Articles
Miles Davis and Marcus Miller: Mr. Pastorius live
In the late 80’s, Marcus Miller and Miles Davis performed live on David Sanborn’s TV show. This video includes the conversation between Marcus and Miles before they jumped into a performance of “Mr. Pastorius”, from the Amandla album.
Good stuff.
Miles Davis Quintet: All Blues live (1964)
Happy Sunday. Enjoy one from the archives: the Miles Davis Quintet performing “All Blues”, with Ron Carter on bass
The group:
Miles Davis – trumpet
Wayne Shorter – tenor sax
Herbie Hancock – piano
Ron Carter – bass
Tony Williams – drums
Marcus Miller: “Tomaas” from Tutu Revisited
Marcus Miller is about to begin his latest tour Japan and Europe. The new tour, Tutu Revisited – The Music of Miles Davis, features Christian Scott on trumpet.
Here’s the group performing “Tomaas”:
Harvey Brooks: 40 years of playing with the greats
In a recent interview with Ynetnews, bassist Harvey Brooks tells pieces of his life story, which for the past four decades includes playing beside Bob Dylan, Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Miles Davis, Mama Cass and B.B. King, to name a few.
In the interview Brooks recalls playing with some of the greats (an excerpt):
“Jim [...]
RIP George Russell
Jazz composer George Russell has passed away. His publicist has released that he died due to complications from Alzheimer’s disease on Monday at the age of 86.
Russell, a MacArthur fellow who is credited with the first theoretical contribution to music from jazz with The Lydian Theory, published in 1953 and responsible for first introducing [...]
