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Miles Davis famously once said, I have to change; it s like a curse – and that s exactly what he did throughout his entire career. In 1969, the trumpet icon may have pulled off his greatest reinvention yet: he went electric. Davis turned the jazz world upside down, marking the beginning of what s called the Electric Miles period – groundbreaking, raw, controversial and, now, classic. He had been evolving all along, electric bassist (and Davis collaborator) Marcus Miller says about his idol. In the same way that America s evolution from the 1930s to the early 60s was absolutely an evolution. It was a revolution from the 60s to the 70s. And Miles music was the same.
Marcus Miller: Electric Miles
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Another Look Back at 2020 – David Amram s 90th Birthday Celebration at Jazz Forum
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Till Bronner & Bob James –
On Vacation (Masterworks): “Together with jazz legend and Grammy award winner Bob James, trumpeter Till Brönner – Germany’s most successful jazz musician – has transformed holiday moods into a multi-layered sound painting. Close your eyes and dream: “On Vacation is first and foremost a feeling for me and we have transformed this feeling into music,” explains BrönnerVirtuosic, full of creative love for refined details and at the same time of the greatest possible nonchalance, Brönner and James create an imaginative and sonorous music for inspiration, reflection and daydreaming. Confirming the cliché “Unity is Strength”, German trumpetist and singer Till Brönner and the American pianist Bob James have cowritten On Vacation, a work of smooth, hedonistic jazz. Before becoming the king of smooth jazz who has been sampled by every rapper on the planet (his Nautilus has ended up on over 400 tracks by the likes of Public Enemy, A Tribe Call