Children on the Corner

Children on the Corner: Rebirth

by John Kelman
November 13, 2004

It seems to be open season on Miles Davis tribute bands paying homage to his '70s electric output, which until the past fifteen years was looked at with derision rather than as the groundbreaking music it truly was. But few have captured the essence of what the music was about. Arguably closest has been Henry Kaiser/Wadada Leo Smith's Yo Miles!, releasing two fine records that honour the ultimate nature of Miles' innovations without being strictly imitative. But, for the most ...

Children on the Corner: Rebirth

by Russ Musto
January 25, 2004

In this age of acid jazz, trip hop and jam bands it's difficult for most listeners to realize just how controversial On The Corner was when it was first released more than 30 years ago, when fusion was becoming something other than nuclear and for most folk funk was merely an odor. Miles Davis had developed a cadre of dedicated disciples from the pot smoking-acid tripping Caucasian counterculture with the “Directions In Music" he cooked up on Bitches Brew , ...

Children On The Corner: Rebirth

by Colin Buttimer
November 2, 2003

Miles Davis’s first electric period traced an arc from 1969 to 1975 which continues to inform the most exploratory electric jazz of the past three decades. Miles developed techniques (generic cross-pollination and studio cut and paste, to name only two) which produced seriously funky and out music and which have inspired a whole slew of innovators including – to take fellow trumpeters as one example – Jon Hassell, Cuong Vu, Dave Douglas, Erik Truffaz and Rob Mazurek. Miles Davis’s legacy ...

Children On The Corner-A Tribute To Miles Electric Years Oct. 26-28 at the Iridium Jazz Club

Source: All About Jazz
October 19, 2004

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Bassist Michael Henderson and other Miles Davis Alumni Join Forces in Children on the Corner - Their Debut Live Recording 'Rebirth' on Sonance Records

Source: All About Jazz
October 27, 2003

Following a rash of acclaimed digitally re-mastered reissues on the Columbia/Legacy label, a new wave of interest has been sparked in Miles Davis' most volatile and controversial period, the electrified '70s. Now -- 30 or so years after the fact -- a number of respected Miles alumni have joined forces to recreate and reinterpret this intensely visceral and highly provocative groove-oriented, rock-tinged jazz. Billed as Children On The Corner (a sly reference to Miles' groundbreaking 1972 studio recording, On The ...
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Children on the Corner in Los Angeles

Source: All About Jazz

Sonance Shortest Press Release

PRESS RELEASE

Philadelphia, PA -- September 20, 2002

SONANCE RECORDS is pleased to announce that CHILDREN ON THE CORNER, featuring original members of the Miles Davis Band's “Electric Years" (1969-75):

Michael Henderson  -  bass Michael Wolff   -  piano and keys Sonny Fortune  -  sax Ndugu Chancler  -  drums Badal Roy    -  tablas

will be making their Los Angeles debut at B.B. King's on Universal Walk.

There will be four ...
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World Premiere of Children on the Corner

Source: All About Jazz

PRESS RELEASE

Philadelphia, PA -- July 1, 2002

SONANCE RECORDS is pleased to announce that five of the greatest jazz musicians of all time have come together once more to delight audiences all over the globe. Aptly named CHILDREN ON THE CORNER, after the controversial Miles Davis album that rocked the jazz world, Children on the Corner features original members of the Miles Davis Band's “Electric Years" (1969-75):

Michael Henderson  -  bass Michael Wolff   -  piano and keys ...
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