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Analysis: Miles Davis' 75th birthday
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NPR All Things Considered
05-25-2001
Analysis: Miles Davis' 75th birthday
Host: ROBERT SIEGEL, LINDA WERTHEIMER
Time: 9:00-10:00 PM
ROBERT SIEGEL, host:
From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Robert Siegel.
LINDA WERTHEIMER, host:
And I'm Linda Wertheimer.
According to most encyclopedias and music history books, today is the 75th anniversary of the birth of jazz trumpeter Miles Davis. In fact, he...
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Analysis: Miles Davis' 75th birthday
All Things Considered (NPR)
; ... WERTHEIMER Time: 9:00-10:00 PM ROBERT SIEGEL, host: From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Robert Siegel. LINDA WERTHEIMER ... Columbia Records is reissuing a series of his recordings. From NPR News, I'm Tom Vitale in New York. (Soundbite of music) SIEGEL: This ...
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Historic collection of Miles Davis recordings released on CD
New Pittsburgh Courier
; Historic collection of Miles Davis recordings released on CD This collection, drawn from the entirety of Miles Davis' recording career, provides an unprecedented overview of a man who constantly redefined musical possibilities and musical excellence. Miles Dewey Davis III was born in Alton, Ill.
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'The Complete Miles Davis featuring John Coltrane': Six-CD set captures the essence of two jazz giants
New Pittsburgh Courier
; `The Complete Miles Davis featuring John Coltrane': Six-CD set captures the essence of two jazz giants The remarkably influential--and, after more than four decades, enduring--body of music created by the Miles Davis quintet and sextet lineups of 1955-1961 with John Coltrane, is the focus of "The
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Culture: Compendium of music goes on for Miles; What better for jazz fans to contemplate on Boxing Day than a big black shiny CD box set? Peter Bacon sits down for a mammoth session with Miles Davis.(Features)
The Birmingham Post (England)
; Byline: Peter Bacon This much is generally accepted. Just like that other lionised modern artist of the 20th century, Pablo Picasso, Miles Davis had a series of remarkable and critically acclaimed stylistic periods: as a young bebopper in the band of Charlie Parker; as the creator of the cool
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Miles Davis Quintet 1965-'68: The Complete Columbia Studio Recordings
The New Crisis
; ... Carnegie Hall" and a four-disc package covering the "Bitches Brew" phase. For now, "Miles Davis Quintet: 1965-'68" is certainly one of the best collections to date. [Author Affiliation] Cliff Redding is a copy editor at the Daily News in New York City.
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'COLUMBIA YEARS' NEGLECTS STORMY SIDE OF MILES DAVIS
The Boston Globe
; Miles Davis is jazz's old prophet and its only living pop-sized superstar. From his bebop days with Charlie Parker in the '40s to his electric bands in the '80s, his extraordinary career chronicled, often announced, the changes in the sound of jazz. His compulsion to move dictated the pace for the
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COMPOSER GIL EVANS & His Band of Gold
The Washington Post
; Gil Evans never looked happier or more comfortable than when he was sitting at the piano at Sweet Basil in New York on a Monday night, conjuring with his big band. The Gil Evans Orchestra was his true instrument and it was a badge of honor for jazz musicians to be a part of its free-floating
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Miles Davis music reissued
Michigan Chronicle
; Steve Holsey Michigan Chronicle 08-27-1996 Miles Davis music reissued. In conjunction with what would have been Miles Davis' 70th birthday, the Columbia Jazz Legacy label recently announced the release of "Miles Davis & Gil Evans: the Complete Columbia Studio Recordings." The lavish 6-CD boxed
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Profile: Life and career of jazz arranger Gil Evans
Weekend Edition - Saturday (NPR)
; ... Evans died of pneumonia at the age of 75 on March 20th, 1988. For NPR News, I'm Tom Vitale in New York. YDSTIE: Our story was produced and edited by Tom Cole at NPR's cultural desk. This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. I'm John Ydstie.
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Gil Evans, 75, arranger of jazz for Miles Davis
Chicago Sun-Times
; NEW YORK (UPI) Jazz arranger Gil Evans, 75, who collaborated with trumpeter Miles Davis in a series of stunning jazz performances, died Sunday in Mexico, his wife, Anita, announced. Mr. Evans died of peritonitis in Cuernavaca, where he went to recuperate from surgery, she said. Mr. Evans went to
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