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The Studio Recordings of the Miles Davis Quintet, 1965-68

Author: Keith Waters

Number of pages: 320

The "Second Quintet" -- the Miles Davis Quintet of the mid-1960s -- was one of the most innovative and influential groups in the history of the genre. Each of the musicians who performed with Davis--saxophonist Wayne Shorter, pianist Herbie Hancock, bassist Ron Carter, and drummer Tony Williams--went on to a successful career as a top player. The studio recordings released by this group made profound contributions to improvisational strategies, jazz composition, and mediation between mainstream and avant-garde jazz, yet most critical attention has focused instead on live performances or the socio-cultural context of the work. Keith Waters' The Studio Recordings of the Miles Davis Quintet, 1965-68 concentrates instead on the music itself, as written, performed, and recorded. Treating six different studio recordings in depth--ESP, Miles Smiles, Sorcerer, Nefertiti, Miles in the Sky, and Filles de Kilimanjaro--Waters has tracked down a host of references to and explications of Davis' work. His analysis takes into account contemporary reviews of the recordings, interviews with the five musicians, and relevant larger-scale cultural studies of the era, as well as two previously...

Miles Davis

Author: Ian Carr

Number of pages: 310

A revised edition of Carr's acclaimed biography of Miles Davis, this book sheds new light on the life and career of the jazz great. From his early days in New York with Charlie Parker to the recording of the seminal "Birth of the Cool" album and his collaborations with talents such as John Coltrane, Bill Evans, Wynton Kelly, and Cannonball Adderley, this ambitious retrospective examines all of the highlights--and a number of the lowlights--in Davis's legendary career. Miles Davis's personal life also comes under the microscope as Carr discusses his drug addiction in the early 1950s, his reclusive dark period from 1975 to 1980, and his marriage to and divorce from Cicely Tyson in the 1980s. Interviews with some of the people who knew Miles Davis and his music best, including Max Roach, Ron Carter, John Schofield, and Jack DeJohnette, provide balance to this exploration of the legacy of an artist who was controversial to the end. "Una edicion revisada de la aclamada biografia de Carr de Miles Davis, este libro arroja luz sobre la vida y carrera de la estrella del jazz. Desde sus primeros tientos profesionales en Nueva York con Charlie Parker hasta la grabacion del album fundamental...

Miles Davis

Author: Clarence Bernard Henry

Number of pages: 308

This research and information guide provides a wide range of scholarship on the life, career, and musical legacy of Miles Davis, and is compiled for an interdisciplinary audience of scholars in jazz and popular music, musicology, and cultural studies. It serves as an excellent tool for librarians, researchers, and scholars sorting through the massive amount of material in the field.

Miles Davis and American Culture

Author: Gerald Lyn Early

Number of pages: 228

His music provoked discussion of art versus commerce, the relationship of artist to audience, and the definition of jazz itself. Whether the topic is race, fashion, or gender relations, the cultural debate about Davis's life remains a confluence.".

It's about that Time

Author: Richard Cook

Number of pages: 373

An engaging portrait of the life and work of jazz great Miles Davis traces his career through the window of fourteen important albums recorded by Davis, illuminating each in terms of their contribution to Davis's evolution as a musician, composer, and group leader, as well as relating them to wider currents in contemporary music and the events in Davis's life.

Miles Davis, Miles Smiles, and the Invention of Post Bop

Author: Jeremy Yudkin

Number of pages: 184

Focusing on one of the legendary musicians in jazz, this book examines Miles Davis's often overlooked music of the mid-1960s with a close examination of the evolution of a new style: post bop. Jeremy Yudkin traces Davis's life and work during a period when the trumpeter was struggling with personal and musical challenges only to emerge once again as the artistic leader of his generation. A major force in post-war American jazz, Miles Davis was a pioneer of cool jazz, hard bop, and modal jazz in a variety of small group formats. The formation in the mid-1960s of the Second Quintet with Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, and Tony Williams was vital to the invention of the new post bop style. Yudkin illustrates and precisely defines this style with an analysis of the 1966 classic Miles Smiles.

The Jazz Style of Miles Davis

Author: Miles Davis , David Baker

Number of pages: 68

The Giants of Jazz series is designed to provide a method for studying, analyzing, imitating and assimilating the idiosyncratic and general facets of the styles of various jazz giants. The Davis book provides many transcriptions, plus discography, biographical data, list of innovations, genealogy, bibliography and comments.

Miles Davis - Originals Vol. 2 (Songbook)

Author: Miles Davis

Number of pages: 80

(Artist Transcriptions). Features 14 Davis originals transcribed note-for-note for trumpet exactly as he recorded them. Includes: Agitation * All Blues * Bitches Brew * Country Son * Eighty One * Filles De Kilimanjaro * Four * Miles * Miles Runs the Voodoo Down * No Blues * Petits Machins * Seven Steps to Heaven * So What * and Spanish Key, plus a biography of this gifted jazz genius.

So What

Author: John Szwed

Number of pages: 496

Miles Davis was one of the crucial influences in the development of modern jazz. His Kind of Blue is an automatic inclusion in any critic's list of the great jazz albums, the one record people who own no other jazz records possess, and still sells 250,000 copies a year in the US alone. But Miles regularly changed styles, leaving his inimitable impact on many forms of jazz, whether he created them or simply developed the work of others, from modal jazz to be-bop, his seminal quintet and his big-band work, to the jazz funk experiments of later years. Miles not only knew and worked with everyone who was anyone in jazz, from Coltrane to Monk, he was a friend of Sartre's, lover of Juliette Greco and musical collaborator with musicians who ranged from Stockhausen to Hendrix. John Swzed is uniquely well-qualified to do justice to Miles, both in terms of his impact on jazz, and as one of the great Black Americans: as political figure, icon and archetypal cool dude. His book fills in the gaps left by myth-making about Miles' life - both by Miles himself and by his previous biographers - telling the story of his childhood, his depressions and his relationship with heroin as well as the more ...

The Studio Recordings of the Miles Davis Quintet, 1965-68

Author: Keith Waters

Number of pages: 320

The "Second Quintet" -- the Miles Davis Quintet of the mid-1960s -- was one of the most innovative and influential groups in the history of the genre. Each of the musicians who performed with Davis--saxophonist Wayne Shorter, pianist Herbie Hancock, bassist Ron Carter, and drummer Tony Williams--went on to a successful career as a top player. The studio recordings released by this group made profound contributions to improvisational strategies, jazz composition, and mediation between mainstream and avant-garde jazz, yet most critical attention has focused instead on live performances or the socio-cultural context of the work. Keith Waters' The Studio Recordings of the Miles Davis Quintet, 1965-68 concentrates instead on the music itself, as written, performed, and recorded. Treating six different studio recordings in depth--ESP, Miles Smiles, Sorcerer, Nefertiti, Miles in the Sky, and Filles de Kilimanjaro--Waters has tracked down a host of references to and explications of Davis' work. His analysis takes into account contemporary reviews of the recordings, interviews with the five musicians, and relevant larger-scale cultural studies of the era, as well as two previously...

Miles on Miles

Author: Paul Maher Jr.; Michael K. Dorr

Number of pages: 352

Miles Davis was not only a musical genius, but also an enigma, and nowhere else was he so compelling, exasperating, and entertaining as he was in his interviews, which vary from polite to outrageous, from straight-ahead to contrarian. Miles on Miles collects thirty of the most vital. Even his autobiography lacks the immediacy of the dialogues collected here. Many were conducted by leading journalists like Leonard Feather, Stephen Davis, Ben Sidran, Mike Zwerin, and Nat Hentoff. Other have never before seen print and are newly transcribed from radio and television shows. Until now, no book has brought back to life Miles's inimitable voice—contemplative, defiant, elegant, uncompromising, and humorous. Miles on Miles will long remain the definitive source for anyone wanting to really encounter the legend in print.

The Jazz Bubble

Author: Dale Chapman

Number of pages: 282

Hailed by corporate, philanthropic, and governmental organizations as a metaphor for democratic interaction and business dynamics, contemporary jazz culture has a story to tell about the relationship between political economy and social practice in the era of neoliberal capitalism. The Jazz Bubble approaches the emergence of the neoclassical jazz aesthetic since the 1980s as a powerful, if unexpected, point of departure for a wide-ranging investigation of important social trends during this period, extending from the effects of financialization in the music industry to the structural upheaval created by urban redevelopment in major American cities. Dale Chapman draws from political and critical theory, oral history, the public and trade press, and interviews, making this a persuasive and compelling work for scholars across a range of fields.

The Music of Miles Davis

Author: Lex Giel

Number of pages: 320

(Jazz Instruction). A complete musical analysis of one of the greatest jazz masters of all time. This comprehensive text studies and analyzes the works, provides transcriptions of the solos, and much more. For all music enthusiasts. Songs covered include: All Blues * Four * Freddie Freeloader * My Funny Valentine * Nardis * So What * Solar * Stella by Starlight * Tune Up * and more!

Billboard

Number of pages: 76

In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.

Technology and the Stylistic Evolution of the Jazz Bass

Author: Peter Dowdall

Number of pages: 222

Technology and the Stylistic Evolution of the Jazz Bass traces the stylistic evolution of jazz from the bass player’s perspective. Historical works to date have tended to pursue a ‘top down’ reading, one that emphasizes the influence of the treble instruments on the melodic and harmonic trajectory of jazz. This book augments that reading by examining the music’s development from the bottom up. It re-contextualizes the bass and its role in the evolution of jazz (and by extension popular music in general) by situating it alongside emerging music technologies. The bass and its technological mediation are shown to have driven changes in jazz language and musical style, and even transformed creative hierarchies in ways that have been largely overlooked. The book’s narrative is also informed by investigations into more commercial musical styles such as blues and rock, in order to assess how, and the degree to which, technological advances first deployed in these areas gradually became incorporated into general jazz praxis. Technology and the Jazz Bass reconciles technology more thoroughly into jazz historiography by detailing and evaluating those that are intrinsic to the...

Jazz-rock Fusion

Author: Julie Coryell , Laura Friedman

Number of pages: 368

This collection of interviews and photos celebrates some of the most outstanding artists in these genres. The book is divided by instrument, and for each artist there is a biography, an interview by Julie Coryell, an outstanding photo by Laura Friedman, and a selected, cross-referenced discography. Legendary players covered here include: Miles Davis, Jaco Pastorius, Michael Brecker, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Stanley Clarke, Freddie Hubbard, Roy Ayers, Ron Carter, Chick Corea, George Benson, Flora Purim and many others. Also features a stunning section of full-color photos, and a preface by Ramsey Lewis. 368 pages.

Water babies

Author: Miles Davis , Herbie Hancock , Ron Carter , Wayne Shorter , Chick Corea , David Holland (double bassist)

Blueprint for the Working Jazz Bassist

Author: Ron Carter

Take your playing to the next level. Whether you're a beginner or an accomplished pro, this Ron Carter book teach you how to create your own unique sound. A sound that will give you a lifelong career as a working bassist, that will be hired over and over again because people know that unique sound and want it on their records and at their performances.It takes you step by step through Ron Carter's Method of the "Connect the Dots" process of note choices. It's the system he created as a young player and he still uses it to this day.The bass is the heartbeat and the spine of any band. In the right hands it makes all the other players sound better.

The Last Miles

Author: George Cole

Number of pages: 534

The story of the final recordings of one of the greatest jazz musicians of the twentieth century

Virtuoso Teams

Author: Andy Boynton , Bill Fischer

Number of pages: 205

With Virtuoso Teamsyou can transform any enterprise. This is a book about effectively managing and leading teams that are catalysts for big change and breakthrough performances. Whether you're launching an innovative new product or service, entering into challenging new markets or simply trying to transform the way you operate, Virtuoso Teamscan make the difference between achieving remarkable success, or just another modest result. Teams is a steady area in business, but there is nothing out there with this kind of punch or invention. The case studies are absolutely fascinating and take center stage. While the primary market will be executives and managers who assemble teams (and the team members themselves) the tertiary market will be serial business book buyers who can t believe they can have a book with such fabulous and wide-ranging stories. The stories of the great teams are unbroken by commentary. The authors weigh in with the management commentary and tips at the end of each chapter, and provide readers with questions that get readers thinking about the steps they need to take to build VT s. The authors are consultants and Professors at one of the world s finest executive...

The Sound of Miles Davis

Author: Jan Lohmann

Number of pages: 396

We Want Miles

Author: Vincent Bessières , Franck Bergerot

Number of pages: 223

Kiwi Collection is the most trusted source for unbiased information and insight into luxury travel. Its team of seasoned travel experts have selected the destinations included here based on their ability to provide outstanding overall guest experiences. Kiwi Collections believes every journey in life should be a rich, rare, and memorable experience.

Music of the 1990s

Author: Thomas Harrison

Number of pages: 182

Presents a comprehensive look at the music and musicians of the 1990s, including such genres as techno, rap, hip-hop, grunge, bubblegum pop, jazz, Christian music, and musical theater.

The Miles Davis Lost Quintet and Other Revolutionary Ensembles

Author: Bob Gluck

Number of pages: 264

Miles Davis’s Bitches Brew is one of the most iconic albums in American music, the preeminent landmark and fertile seedbed of jazz-fusion. Fans have been fortunate in the past few years to gain access to Davis’s live recordings from this time, when he was working with an ensemble that has come to be known as the Lost Quintet. In this book, jazz historian and musician Bob Gluck explores the performances of this revolutionary group—Davis’s first electric band—to illuminate the thinking of one of our rarest geniuses and, by extension, the extraordinary transition in American music that he and his fellow players ushered in. Gluck listens deeply to the uneasy tension between this group’s driving rhythmic groove and the sonic and structural openness, surprise, and experimentation they were always pushing toward. There he hears—and outlines—a fascinating web of musical interconnection that brings Davis’s funk-inflected sensibilities into conversation with the avant-garde worlds that players like Ornette Coleman and John Coltrane were developing. Going on to analyze the little-known experimental groups Circle and the Revolutionary Ensemble, Gluck traces deep resonances...

Vibe

Number of pages: 112

Vibe is the lifestyle guide to urban music and culture including celebrities, fashion, beauty, consumer electronics, automotive, personal care/grooming, and, always, music. Edited for a multicultural audience Vibe creates trends as much as records them.

The Jazz Bass Book

Author: John Goldsby

Number of pages: 228

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Experiencing Jazz

Author: Richard J. Lawn

Number of pages: 480

Experiencing Jazz, Second Edition, is an integrated textbook with online resources for jazz appreciation and history courses. Through readings, illustrations, timelines, listening guides, and a streaming audio library, it immerses the reader in a journey through the history of jazz, while placing the music within a larger cultural and historical context. Designed to introduce the novice to jazz, Experiencing Jazz describes the elements of music, and the characteristics and roles of different instruments. Prominent artists and styles from the roots of jazz to present day are relayed in a story-telling prose. This new edition features expanded coverage of women in jazz, the rise of jazz as a world music, the influence of Afro-Cuban and Latin jazz, and streaming audio. Features: Important musical trends are placed within a broad cultural, social, political, and economic context Music fundamentals are treated as integral to the understanding of jazz, and concepts are explained easily with graphic representations and audio examples Comprehensive treatment chronicles the roots of jazz in African music to present day Commonly overlooked styles, such as orchestral jazz, Cubop, and...

New York Magazine

Number of pages: 150

New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.

Beneath Missouri Skies

Author: Carolyn Glenn Brewer

Number of pages: 304

The New Yorker recently referred to Pat Metheny as “possibly the most influential jazz guitarist of the past five decades.” A native of Lee’s Summit, Missouri, just southeast of Kansas City, Metheny started playing in pizza parlors at age fourteen. By the time he graduated from high school he was the first-call guitarist for Kansas City jazz clubs, private clubs, and jazz festivals. Now 66, he attributes his early success to the local musical environment he was brought up in and the players and teachers who nurtured his talent and welcomed him into the jazz community. Metheny's twenty Grammys in ten categories speak to his versatility and popularity. Despite five decades of interviews, none have conveyed in detail his stories about his teenage years. Beneath Missouri Skies also reveals important details about jazz in Kansas City during the sixties and early seventies, often overlooked in histories of Kansas City jazz. Yet this time of cultural change was characterized by an outstanding level of musicianship. Author Carolyn Glenn Brewer shows how his keen sense of ensemble had its genesis in his school band under the guidance of a beloved band director. Drawn from news...

You'll Know When You Get There

Author: Bob Gluck

Number of pages: 262

This book tells the story of the Mwandishi band; the author examines the ingredients that would come to form this band's sound. He analyzes the group's instrumentation, their use of electronics, and their transformation of the studio into a compositional tool.

Miles Davis

Author: Jennifer Warner

Number of pages: 90

The 20th century produced only a handful of musicians who could be called geniuses – people who would have achieved timeless fame no matter when they were born. Miles Davis is one of those individuals. He primarily played the trumpet, though he was an accomplished multi-instrumentalist. His signature style was minimalist and improvisational. Those closest to him described a shy person who used anger and arrogance as a shield to keep others away. Likewise, his addictive personality – he battled drugs and alcohol for virtually his entire adult life – made his creative achievements all the more remarkable. Miles died younger than he might have were it not for those self-destructive tendencies, but not before creating dozens of the most important jazz albums in the history of the genre. This book explores Davis’ fascinating life.

Milestones: The music and times of Miles Davis since 1960

Author: Jack Chambers

Number of pages: 416

Traces the life and career of the great jazz trumpeter who emerged as a bebop prodigy in the forties and developed into one of the most influential musicians in modern jazz

Miles Davis

Author: Ian Carr

Number of pages: 680

This exhaustively researched, revised edition of Ian Carr's classic biography throws new light on Davis' life and career: from the early days in New York with Charlie Parker; to the Birth of Cool; through his drug addiction in the early 1950s and the years of extraordinary achievements (1954-1960), during which he signed with Columbia and collaborated with such unequaled talents as John Coltrane, Bill Evans, Wynton Kelly and Cannonball Adderly. Carr also explores Davis' dark, reclusive period (1975-1980), offering firsthand accounts of his descent into addiction, as well as his dramatic return to life and music. Carr has talked with the people who knew Miles and his music best including Bill Evans, Joe Zawinul, Keith Jarrett, and Jack DeJohnette, and has conducted interviews with Ron Carter, Max Roach, John Scofield and others.

Miles Davis' Bitches Brew

Author: George Grella

Number of pages: 128

It was 1969, and Miles Davis, prince of cool, was on the edge of being left behind by a dynamic generation of young musicians, an important handful of whom had been in his band. Rock music was flying off in every direction, just as America itself seemed about to split at its seams. Following the circumscribed grooves and ambiance of In A Silent Way; coming off a tour with a burning new quintet-called 'The Lost Band'-with Wayne Shorter, Chick Corea, Dave Holland and Jack DeJohnette; he went into the studio with musicians like frighteningly talented guitarist John McLaughlin, and soulful Austrian keyboardist Joe Zawinul. Working with his essential producer, Teo Macero, Miles set a cauldron of ideas loose while the tapes rolled. At the end, there was the newly minted Prince of Darkness, a completely new way forward for jazz and rock, and the endless brilliance and depth of Bitches Brew. Bitches Brew is still one of the most astonishing albums ever made in either jazz or rock. Seeming to fuse the two, it actually does something entirely more revolutionary and open-ended: blending the most avant-garde aspects of Western music with deep grooves, the album rejects both jazz and rock for...

The Essential Jazz Recordings

Author: Ross Porter

Number of pages: 248

A guide to the all-time must-have jazz recordings by a maven of the genre. Possibly the twentieth century’s greatest musical innovation, jazz is now more popular than it has been for the past fifty years. But with the plethora of new recordings and the phenomenon in jazz of the same standards being recorded seemingly by almost every artist and band or trio, it’s very hard to know where to start or to improve a CD collection. The Essential Jazz Recordings provides a trustworthy, concise guide, heavily skewed to Porter’s personal favourites and showcasing Canadian talent where it’s merited. With background information on the music, the artist, and the recording, Porter explains the unique merits of each recording, from Louis Armstrong to Wynton Marsalis, Billie Holiday to Diana Krall. With this guide, dedicated jazz aficionados can ensure a complete collection and novices can expand their knowledge. Both will hugely enjoy the musical riches in The Essential Jazz Recordings.

The Essential Jazz Records: Modernism to postmodernism

Author: Max Harrison , Charles Fox , Eric Thacker , Stuart Nicholson

Number of pages: 889

Following the same format as the acclaimed first volume, this selection of the best 250 modern jazz records and CDs places each in its musical context and reviews it in depth. Additionally, full details of personnel, recording dates, and locations are given. Indexes of album titles, track titles, and musicians are included.

Jazz: The First 100 Years

Author: Henry Martin , Keith Waters

Number of pages: 448

Explore the development of jazz music from its nineteenth-century roots in blues and ragtime, through swing and bebop, to fusion and contemporary jazz styles. JAZZ: THE FIRST 100 YEARS gives you a true feel for the vibrant, ever-changing sound of jazz. Learning is made easy with the Audio Primer CD that allows you to hear the key terms, basic music concepts, and jazz instruments discussed in the book. Key terms, topics for discussion, and the jazz basics introduction help you master difficult concepts. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

A Diary of the Underdogs

Author: Don Alberts

Number of pages: 360

"Historical documentation and perspectives on jazz music, the social and political music environment of the period of the 1960's in San Francisco told by local musicians with their stories and interviews"--Back cover.