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Betty Davis' and Charles Mingus' Roaring '70s
by Ludovico Granvassu
A series of recent re-releases gives us the opportunity to focus on the phenomenal 1970s music of two iconic musicians: Betty Davis and Charles Mingus. Music so ahead of its time that it sounds as if it was recorded yesterday.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Betty Davis Your Man My Man" Betty Davis (Light in the Attic) 0:16 Host talks 3:48 Charles Mingus Remember Rockefeller at Attica" Changes: ...
read moreBetty Davis: They Say I’m Different
by Maurizio Comandini
Betty Davis They Say I'm Different MVD Visuals 2020 Betty Davis, nata Betty Mabry, divenne la moglie di Miles Davis nel 1968 e cambiò profondamente la vita e le scelte artistiche del grande trombettista americano. Betty buttò alle ortiche tutti i suoi abiti sartoriali italiani e lo portò a fare shopping nella boutique delle amiche di Jimi Hendrix. La musica di Miles si spostò decisamente verso il jazz elettrico che si stava, faticosamente ma ...
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by Walter Atkins
Betty Davis Betty Davis: They Say I'm Different Native Voice Films 2018 The incisive documentary BettyThey Say I'm Different chronicled the humble beginnings and explosive career of the '70s trail blazer, composer and vocalist Betty Davis. Her bold music and incendiary stage persona was light-years ahead of the existing social norms and well beyond music industry categorization. Director Phil Cox tells the compelling saga with her voice, and through interviews with family, childhood friends, ...
read moreColumbia Years 1968-1969
by Maurizio Comandini
La piccola ma intraprendente casa discografica statunitense, Light in the Attic, in collaborazione con la major Sony/Columbia, piazza un uppercut formidabile che toglie il velo ad uno dei misteri meglio preservati della discografia del secolo scorso. Vengono infatti pubblicati per la prima volta i cinque brani che Betty Davis, nata Betty Mabry e sposata con Miles Davis a settembre del 1968, registrò nel mese di maggio dell'anno seguente, proprio a metà strada fra la registrazione di In a Silent Way ...
read moreBetty Davis: Columbia Years 1968-1969
by Nenad Georgievski
The vaults of major labels such as Columbia and many others hold many secret and yet to be revealed gems. First of all, check out singer-songwriter Bob Dylan's archival Bootleg output series or trumpet legend Miles Davis archival box set reissues. This isn't just scraping the bottom of a barrel and coming out with alternate takes or rehearsals of songs or music with dubious audio quality, but an avalanche of unbelievable amount of great music, much to the joy of ...
read moreBetty Davis: Betty Davis
by John Ballon
"If Betty were singing today she be something like Madonna, something like Prince, only as a woman. She was the beginning of all that when she was singing as Betty Davis." Miles Davis with Quincy Troupe, Miles: The Autobiography.The former wife of Miles, Betty Mabry Davis is perhaps the only woman in the world who could rightfully have the following legend tattooed across her rear: THIS ASS INVENTED FUSION. While their marriage only lasted a year (1968-1969), Betty's ...
read moreRhino Recommends - Betty Davis - They Say I'm Different (Just Sunshine/Light in the Attic)
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Among '70s Funk aficionados, Betty Davis is something of a Fakahatchee Orchid: truly rare, exquisite, and without peer. That so little has been known about her for so long only adds to the mystique of this former wife of Miles Davis, who produced a series of albums so radical and, indescribable that they still have the power to tingle today, some thirty years hence. Sly Stone? Tina Turner? Funkadelic? Chaka Khan? Rick James? ...
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