Article: Botti changing the tone of contemporary jazz

Article: VOA NEWS: 2006 A GOOD YEAR FOR MILES DAVIS FANS
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  June 7, 2006 ;     374 words ......documentary Jazz suggests, "Jazz stopped evolving when Miles Davis wasn't there to push...in New York in 1944, Miles Davis immersed himself in jazz, playing bebop with...Midnight. From bebop to jazz-rock, Miles Davis remained the essence...

Article: Is jazz dead? Miles Davis said it. PBS chronicler Ken Burns denies it.(The Dallas Morning News)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  January 8, 2001 ;     700+ words ...In 1975, when Miles Davis declared Jazz is dead (it's) the music...and 1960s), and electric jazz-rock fusion (in the late `60s and 1970s), the jazz community began fighting over what was jazz _ and what wasn't. Decades later, the what-is-jazz war continues to paralyze...To many ...

Article: Jazz in July; Annual NCC series honors Miles Davis
Naperville Sun, The (IL);  July 22, 2005 ;     700+ words ......through Thursday. Say "Miles Davis," and most people...recall the legendary jazz musician's outstanding...camp is to educate jazz vocalists to use their voices like Miles Davis used his trumpet...and intervals that Miles Davis used," Borla said. Davis wrote several ...

Article: Invited into the life of 'Picasso of jazz' The Oxford Companion To Jazz. Edited by Bill Kirchner (OUP, pounds 30). Kind Of Blue: The Making Of The Miles Davis Masterpiece. By Ashley Kahn (Da Capo, pounds 18.40). Reviewed by Peter Bacon.(Books)
The Birmingham Post (England);  July 28, 2001 ;     700+ words ......chapter on the career of Miles Davis; while Kind of Blue is a...in Davis in particular and jazz in general, but there are...American Literature, even Jazz Clubs. How well they work...Jr's The African Roots Of Jazz, for example, is fairly dry...Burns series, it encompasses jazz ...

Article: Jazz legends pushed genre's boundaries: Experimental works of Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman featured on reissues
Philadelphia Tribune, The;  July 7, 2000 ;     700+ words ......Philadelphia Tribune, The 07-07-2000 Jazz legends pushed genre's boundaries: Experimental works of Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman featured...any) the "outer limits" of jazz? The question itself is ambiguous...within the boundaries of jazz. But the most contentious debate over "in" or "out" of ...

Article: KIND OF NEW A HALF-CENTURY AFTER ITS RELEASE, MILES DAVIS'S MASTERPIECE IS STILL THE BEST JAZZ ALBUM AROUND
The Boston Globe;  October 15, 2000 ;     700+ words ......a fundamental conflict in jazz between what happens onstage...there are countless great jazz recordings, there are relatively few great jazz albums. "Album" is meant...There are no more important jazz recordings than Louis Armstrong...Nelson Riddle on Capitol. Few jazz albums have ever ...

Article: JAZZ LEGEND MILES DAVIS DIES AT 65
Post-Tribune (IN);  September 29, 1991 ;     601 words ...PHOTO - CHART Miles Davis is shown at a July 14 performance at the North Sea Jazz Festival at The Hague, the...Associated Press photo) Miles Davis Discography THIS ELECTRONIC...an elusive touchstone of jazz for four decades, died Saturday...

Article: Miles Davis? He was a rock star The old kind of jazz is the only real kind, claims Wynton Marsalis. Sholto Byrnes is not convinced
The Independent on Sunday;  January 12, 2003 ;     700+ words ......despite all this, the world's most famous and powerful jazz musician feels seriously misunderstood. He blames it...by the saxophonist David Murray, who said that great jazz musicians were out of work because they don't play in...seen as the standard bearer for those who want to codify jazz as America's ...

Article: All That Jazz: Miles Davis Makes History; In Miles Davis's many stylistic changes, you'll find a history of jazz
The Washington Post;  August 30, 1995 ;     700+ words ......lecture" on the jazz of Miles Davis, dial 202/334-9000...into the ocean of jazz, surfed head-on into...forever, trumpeter Miles Davis's sound has been...2804) By 1966, Miles had an all-new group...the rock-influenced jazz that quickly descended...

Article: A watershed in popular culture; When Miles Davis hired John Coltrane over the likes of Sonny Rollins, it transformed jazz.(Entertainment)
The Toronto Star (Toronto, Ontario);  August 9, 2008 ;     668 words ......passing acquaintance with jazz to know the importance of Miles Davis and John Coltrane. Trumpeter...at the forefront of every jazz movement since the late...and tenor saxophonist and jazz educator Salim Washington...Yes, there were times both jazz geniuses were victimized...authorial ...

Article: ACCLAIMED JAZZ MUSICIANS TO PERFORM FEB. 11 IN HONOR OF MILES DAVIS
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  January 24, 2006 ;     700+ words ......and Saturday, Feb. 10-11, the Miles Davis Jazz Studies Program at UNCG will...after the film. The concept for Miles Davis Jazz Studies Program arose in 1996...Blue." Two years later, the Miles Davis Jazz Studies Program was instituted...

Article: Jazz: Sinfonietta's Miles Davis Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
The Independent - London;  March 6, 1996 ;     494 words ...As misnomers go, London Sinfonietta's "Jazz in the Fifties" programme on the South Bank on Monday night...birthed in the Fifties, few of which bore any relation to jazz at all. Admittedly, the German Bernd Alois Zimmermann's...Knows de Trouble I See" (1954) made noir-ish reference to jazz tonality, and was ...

Article: Analysis: Miles Davis' 75th birthday, the man and his music
Talk of the Nation (NPR);  May 28, 2001 ;     700+ words ...00-00-0000 Analysis: Miles Davis' 75th birthday...years ago Saturday, Miles Davis was born. Within...in the world of jazz, moving from be...also gave pause. Miles Davis was, to put it gently...stair step into Miles Davis for many people...recent Ken Burns ...

Article: The soul of Seventies jazz-rock PHIL JOHNSON ON JAZZ Joe Zawinul: Visions of Miles Davis Barbican, London
The Independent - London;  November 21, 1999 ;     700+ words ......in funky, Afro-American jazz. Arriving on a scholarship...he then wrote the soul- jazz hit "Mercy Mercy Mercy". Recruited by Miles Davis for the albums Bitches...create the new sound of jazz-rock fusion, before he...despite the "Visions of Miles Davis" tag, Zawinul ...