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Miles Davis: Concierto de Aranjuez (Adagio) (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music October 29, 07

    Miles Davis, photo by Herb Snitzer Concierto de Aranjuez (1939), directed its compose...

Miles Davis-Gil Evans: Bess, Oh, Where Is My Bess? (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music July 10, 09

How does one pick a favorite piece from Gil's and Miles' Porgy and Bess album? Tough to do. I've chosen this piece ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: MARIA SCHNEIDER SELECTS 12 ESSENTIAL GIL EVANS TRACKS

In 2006, during a “listening session” with New York Times music writer Ben Ratliff, Maria Schneider compared Gil Evan...

Miles Davis: Bess, Oh Where's My Bess (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music July 10, 09

In Act III, Scene 3 of Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess (1935), Porgy returns to Catfish Row after a week in jail that...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: THE GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY OF PORGY AND BESS

Kind of Blue (1959) is usually cited as Miles Davis's best-selling album, and has often been called the bes...

Miles Davis-Gil Evans: Concierto de Aranjuez (Adagio) (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music July 10, 09

This is arguably the finest of Gil's and Miles' collaborations. There are countless details one could highlight, but...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: MARIA SCHNEIDER SELECTS 12 ESSENTIAL GIL EVANS TRACKS

In 2006, during a “listening session” with New York Times music writer Ben Ratliff, Maria Schneider compared Gil Evan...

Buddy DeFranco: Out of Nowhere (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music December 27, 07

At this writing, DeFranco continues to be an excellent musician playing an instrument that fell out of favor early in...

Evans, Gil (Ian Ernest Gilmore Green) posted in Encyclopedia January 19, 09

Arranger and composer Gil Evans made his mark on modern jazz by taking the sometimes-rough edges of bebop and smoothi...

Magnarelli, Joe (Joseph Anthony) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Magnarelli, Joe (Joseph Anthony), trumpet, piano; b. Syracuse, NY, 19 January 1960. At the age of 12 he started to...

Claude Thornhill: Yardbird Suite (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music November 23, 07

Once the Swing Era expired like a lapsed subscription to The Saturday Evening Post, many big-name bandleaders became ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: JAZZ FOR THE BIRDS

It's only fitting. Since birds inspire us with their songs, composers return the favor, dedicating music in every gen...

Miles Davis (featuring Philly Joe Jones): Gone (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music April 08, 08

"The thing about Philly Joe's playing," said Paul Motian in a 1996 Percussive Notes interview, "was that somehow his ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: THE GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY OF PORGY AND BESS

Kind of Blue (1959) is usually cited as Miles Davis's best-selling album, and has often been called the bes...

Miles Davis: Fishermen, Strawberry and Devil Crab (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music June 09, 08

As Act II, Scene 3 of Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess (1935) opens, dawn breaks over Catfish Row. As always, day...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: THE GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY OF PORGY AND BESS

Kind of Blue (1959) is usually cited as Miles Davis's best-selling album, and has often been called the bes...

Miles Davis: Bess, You Is My Woman Now (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music June 10, 08

Of the numerous jazz adaptations of Porgy and Bess in the mid-to-late 1950s – many motivated by the production of a H...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: THE GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY OF PORGY AND BESS

Kind of Blue (1959) is usually cited as Miles Davis's best-selling album, and has often been called the bes...

Miles Davis: It Ain't Necessarily So (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music June 10, 08

The wistful, longing intro by Davis, cleverly utilizing the opening melodic line from "I Got Plenty of Nothin'," coul...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: THE GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY OF PORGY AND BESS

Kind of Blue (1959) is usually cited as Miles Davis's best-selling album, and has often been called the bes...

Miles Davis: My Man's Gone Now (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music June 10, 08

British critic Max Harrison felt that the full potential of Gil Evans's charts for Miles Davis's Porgy and Bess was n...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: THE GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY OF PORGY AND BESS

Kind of Blue (1959) is usually cited as Miles Davis's best-selling album, and has often been called the bes...

Miles Davis: Gone, Gone, Gone (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music June 14, 08

Act I, Scene 2 of Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess (1935) finds a roomful of destitute Negroes attending the sheet-cov...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: THE GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY OF PORGY AND BESS

Kind of Blue (1959) is usually cited as Miles Davis's best-selling album, and has often been called the bes...

Miles Davis: Buzzard Song (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music July 05, 08

Miles's and Gil's Porgy and Bess opens with a loud chord, proceeding to Miles's take on a song cut from the opera's o...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: THE GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY OF PORGY AND BESS

Kind of Blue (1959) is usually cited as Miles Davis's best-selling album, and has often been called the bes...

Miles Davis: Summertime (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music July 05, 08

This is a straightforward rendition of the Gershwin classic, with Miles playing the melody, then improvising against ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: THE GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY OF PORGY AND BESS

Kind of Blue (1959) is usually cited as Miles Davis's best-selling album, and has often been called the bes...

Miles Davis: Prayer (Oh Doctor Jesus) (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music July 05, 08

This section of Porgy and Bess was never well known by the general public. In the opera, Bess goes with other residen...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: THE GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY OF PORGY AND BESS

Kind of Blue (1959) is usually cited as Miles Davis's best-selling album, and has often been called the bes...

Miles Davis: I Loves You, Porgy (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music July 08, 08

One of the most beautiful songs in Porgy and Bess, the music during the entire first part of this track seems to floa...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: THE GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY OF PORGY AND BESS

Kind of Blue (1959) is usually cited as Miles Davis's best-selling album, and has often been called the bes...

Miles Davis: There's a Boat That's Leaving Soon for New York (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music July 08, 08

Although this song is actually sung in the opera's penultimate scene, it makes a fine ending for the album. Clearly i...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: THE GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY OF PORGY AND BESS

Kind of Blue (1959) is usually cited as Miles Davis's best-selling album, and has often been called the bes...

Miles Davis: Summertime (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music July 29, 08

One of the many wonders in the Miles Davis/Gil Evans album of Porgy and Bess is how Evans was able to remain faithful...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: SUMMERTIME

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