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On All About Jazz, Mark F. Turner said "there are more subdued voices who let their music do the talking, as is the case for Ron Miles' Quiver, a project led by the Denver-based trumpeter and his talented cohorts, guitarist Bill Frisell and drummer Brian Blade. These gentle masters are highly respected leaders with expansive discographies and ...
Milestones (instrumental composition) "Milestones" is a jazz composition written by Miles Davis. It appears on the album of the same name in 1958. It has since become a jazz standard. "Milestones" is the first example of Miles composing in a modal style and experimentation in this piece led to the writing of "So What" from the 1959 album Kind ...
Fontainebleau. (album) Fontainebleau is a 1956 album by jazz musician Tadd Dameron. [3][4] The title track, inspired by a trip to the French palace of the same name, is a through-composed composition with no solos, while "Flossie Lou" is a contrafact of "Jeepers Creepers". [5]
The Jazzmaster's contoured "offset-waist" body was designed for comfort while playing the guitar in a seated position, as many jazz and blues artists prefer to do. A full 25.5-inch (647.7 mm) scale length , ' lead ' and ' rhythm ' circuit switching with independent volume and tone controls, a 'floating tremolo ' [ 1 ] with tremolo lock, and a ...
Ray Noble. " Cherokee " (also known as " Cherokee (Indian Love Song) ") is a jazz standard written by the British composer and band leader Ray Noble and published in 1938. It is the first of five movements in Noble's "Indian Suite" (Cherokee, Comanche War Dance, Iroquois, Seminole, and Sioux Sue). [1] Due to the tune incorporating many of the ...
According to the liner notes by Nat Hentoff [5] the composition was one of Remler's favorites from the Be-bop era. In 1990, Mal Waldron & Steve Lacy covered the tune on their album Hot House. In 1998 trumpeter Arturo Sandoval covered the tune on his big band album Hot House. In 1999, guitarist Larry Coryell covered the tune on his album Private ...
Dave Douglas chronology. Soul on Soul. (2000) Leap of Faith. (2000) A Thousand Evenings. (2001) Leap of Faith is the 15th album by trumpeter Dave Douglas. It was released on the Arabesque label in 2000 and features performances by Douglas, Chris Potter, James Genus, and Ben Perowsky.
Early Jazz: Its Roots and Musical Development, by Gunther Schuller, is a seminal study of jazz from its origins through the early 1930s, first published in 1968. [1] It has since been translated into five languages (Italian, French, Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish). [2] When it was published, it was the first volume of a projected two volume ...