Jazz at 100 Hour 25: Yardbird – The Savoy and Dial Recordings of Charlie Parker
Charlie “Yardbird” Parker and Miles Davis Emerging from the Jay McShann Orchestra from Kansas City and relentlessly curious about how to play the new music he heard in his head, Charlie Parker found...
View ArticleJazz at 100 Hour 34: The Birth of the Cool
The torrid pace of bebop improvisations reached a point in the late 1940s that prompted a musical reconsideration and Miles Davis was there at the conception. Davis had been with the Charlie Parker...
View ArticleJazz at 100 Hour 39: The Birth of Hard Bop
Horace Silver While the “Cool School” was emerging on the West Coast from its roots in Bix and Pres as codified by Miles in “The Birth of the Cool” sessions of 1949 – 1950, what became known as Hard...
View ArticleJazz at 100 / The Jazz Messenger – The Porgy and Bess Show
Cab Calloway as Sportin’ Life In the mid-1930’s, George Gershwin acquired the rights to the play Porgy by DuBose Heyward, based on his own novel of 1925. Gershwin’s great American opera, Porgy and Bess...
View ArticleJazz at 100 Hour 46: The Songbooks
Songs from what came to be known as the Great American Songbook, have been part of jazz perhaps since The Original Dixieland Jazz Band began recording Irving Berlin compositions. In the 1940s, singer...
View ArticleJazz at 100 Hour 52: Miles Davis & the First Great Quintet (Sextet)
Bill Evans, Paul Chambers, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, & Cannonball Adderley Miles Davis was more than a trumpet player, composer and taste-maker – he led some of the greatest bands in the history...
View ArticleJazz at 100 Hour 59: Jazz and Bossa Nova
João Gilberto, Antônio Carlos Jobim, Stan Getz Fueled by the 1959 international release of the movie Black Orpheus and through reports from US jazz players returning from South American tours, the...
View ArticleJazz at 100 Hour 77: Miles Davis and the Second Great Quintet
Miles Dais – Herbie Hancock – Wayne Shorter Miles Davis, through his adoption of modal music, participated in the gradual liberation that resulted in the free music of the jazz avant-garde – liberation...
View ArticleJazz at 100 Hour 83: Road to Fusion
Miles Davis Jazz-rock fusion or, often, simply “fusion” emerged in the late 60s as the child of many mothers. Characterized by electric instruments and rock rhythms, it could be loud and fast, but just...
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