By building on the tradition of great bass-playing composers like Charles Mingus and Oscar Pettiford, while pushing the instrumental envelope as far as any modern great, Dave Holland ranks as a true ...
The famously blunt and temperamental jazz icon was determined to realize his boundary-pushing late-'60s creative vision, but ...
Miles In France 1963 and 1964 (Columbia/Sony Legacy 19802801681) As the 1950s flipped over into the 1960s Miles Davis was ...
His piano-trio format and jazz-standards repertoire ... Also worth mentioning are Ashley Kahn’s “Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece” (2000) and Ted Gioia’s “The ...