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Bitches Brew: Gooey Dewey
by Glenn Astarita
Throughout the '90s and into the new millennium, the jazz world has witnessed quite a few spins on Miles Davis's electric funk/fusion period. The San Francisco-based outfit Bitches Brew has adopted the late trumpeter's methodologies into its overall sound and approach. A local Bay Area favorite, this nine-piece band presents more than just a few, thoroughly happening propositions.
Not content to ape or transcribe Davis's body of genre specific work, the ensemble injects its personal stamp into these rather all-encompassing ...
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Michael Ricci
THE FIRST CLOSE CRITICAL TREATMENT OF THE ALBUM THAT SHOOK JAZZ WITH ITS ELECTRIC SOUND AND ROCK-INFLUENCED STYLE Listen to This stands out as the first book exclusively dedicated to Miles Davis's watershed 1969 album, Bitches Brew. Victor Svorinich traces its incarnations and inspirations for ten-plus years before its release. The album arrived as the jazz scene waned beneath the rise of rock and roll and as Davis (1926-1991) faced large changes in social conditions affecting the African American consciousness. ...
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You Say You Want a Revolution (We All Want to Change the World): Bitches Brew Live, or How Miles Davis Saved 21st Century Jazz
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Jazz (Jazzers Jazzing) by Carl L. Hager
Bitches Brew was recognized as the proverbial shot heard 'round the world" within weeks of being released by Columbia Records in April, 1970. In his musical choicesparticularly the electric instrumentation, radically new editing approaches, and recent personnel changesMiles had set off a fiery explosion that continues to reverberate throughout jazz to this day. A good number of critics have spoken violently against it and still do. Whether they were annoyed or confused by his new direction in music, it's a ...
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Miles Davis "Bitches Brew Live"
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Sound Insights by Doug Payne
Many years ago when there was evolution and revolution in music, change was palpable. Today, too much music is just churned out by the latest technology. Only the faces change. The music machine is fueled by product" and (or) stuff that sounds too much like something that's already been done before. But as the 1970s dawned, jazz was losing a lot of its audience to indifferent music and the onslaught of rock. Miles Davis, keenly aware of this transformation, watched ...
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Melvin Gibbs' free download series stirs a "Bitches Brew" in week six
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Melvin Gibbs
The Phree-dem Downloads free music series presented by bassist/producer Melvin Gibbs continues into its' sixth week with the composition HeruGlyphic." Gibbs features keyboard player Onaje Allan Gumbs on this track from his Melvin Runs The Hoodoo Down" project This project, which takes the music of the Miles Davis' album Bitches Brew as it's starting point, is based on a production technique Melvin calls infrapolation." HeruGlyphic" also features Alex Harding on bass clarinet and the beatboxing of Napoleon Maddox of the ...
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Miles Davis' Bitches Brew Live to be Released February 2011
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Michael Ricci
Four decades later, it remains the great game changer, the genre- bending, barrier-smashing double LP that would become Miles Davis' first RIAA gold album, and influence twothree! (so far)generations of jazz and rock musicians to come. Released in April of 1970, Bitches Brew refracted the chaos and beauty of a society stretched (and stressed) to its breaking point, the penultimate creation of Miles' career. BITCHES BREW LIVE adds yet another dimension to the album's prismatic reputation. Its nine rare live ...
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What's New @ shop.allaboutjazz.com: Henry Threadgill Mosaic Box, Bitches Brew 40th Anniversary Collector's Edition, and more!
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All About Jazz
NEW FROM MOSAIC RECORDS: THE COMPLETE NOVUS & COLUMBIA RECORDINGS OF HENRY THREADGILL & AIR Henry Threadgill was a founding member of the now legendary Association for the Advancement of Creative Music (AACM) of Chicago, but before and since he has been a founding member of the Henry Threadgill college of making music that matters. And to Threadgill, all music mattersCharlie Parker and street marching bands and Poulenc and Balinese dance. Now, this first big collection of ...
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Notes from the Net: Bitches Brew Turns 40; New CDs from Vijay Iyer and the Bad Plus; Plus News, Reviews, Interviews, and More
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Here's the latest compilation of assorted news briefs and links related to jazz, improvisation, and creative music in St. Louis, including news of musicians originally from the Gateway City, recent visitors, and coming attractions, plus assorted other items of interest: We start, as usual, with some Miles Davis news, much of it related in some way to this year's 40th anniversary re-release of Bitches Brew. The website LAist has a look at a panel discussion on the 40th anniversary of ...
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Miles Davis' 'Bitches Brew' Turns 40 and Gets the Box Set Treatment
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All About Jazz @ Spinner
I've gone on record more than once saying I lean more toward John Coltrane than Miles Davis. Yet such is the magnitude of Davis' legacy that it is impossible for either jazz fan or jazz critic to avoid spending considerable time listening to the trumpeter. No jazz musician I can think of was recorded more often. No leader I can think of had more of his sidemen go on to become stars in their own right. No jazz artist moved ...
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The Friday Morning Listen: Miles Davis - Bitches Brew (1970)
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Something Else!
By Mark Saleski A friend of mine, who is just beginning to dip his toe into the pool of jazz, asked me if I thought he was ready" for Bitches Brew. That's a tricky question, no matter who is doing the asking. The generic answer, suitable for use in nearly any situation, is a definite maybe." Some might say it's a mighty big leap from Kind Of Blue to Bitches Brew. Indeed, the two albums sound nothing like each other, ...
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Jeff Lofton Electric Thang Does Miles Davis' "Bitches Brew"
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Michael Ricci
Jeff Lofton Electric Thang does Miles Davis' Bitches Brew" at Lamberts plus sets at Antone's Austin - In the tradition of Miles Davis, jazz trumpeter Jeff Lofton expands his sound and takes on a new challenge with his side project, the Jeff Lofton Electric Thang, presenting Miles Davis' Bitches Brew at Lamberts, 401 W. 2nd Street, Friday, July 2 at 9:30 p.m. Cover is $7.00. The Jeff Lofton Electric Thang also plays a set at Antone's, 213 W. 5th, at ...
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