At some point toward the end of my senior year of high school, I acquired a bootleg of the Beatles' 1965 concert at Shea Stadium. I was not happy with my purchase it was unlistenable, with screaming fans all but drowning out the music. Fortunately my friend Jim was a Beatles collector, and he…
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Alternative Title: Robert Allen Zimmerman
Bob Dylan, original name
Robert Allen Zimmerman, (born May 24, 1941, Duluth, Minnesota, U.S.), American folksinger who moved from folk to rockmusic in the 1960s, infusing the lyrics of rock and roll, theretofore concerned mostly with boy-girl romanticinnuendo, with the intellectualism of classic literature and poetry. Hailed as the Shakespeare of his generation, Dylan sold tens of millions of albums, wrote more than 500 songs recorded by more than 2,000 artists, performed all over the world, and set the standard for lyric writing. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016. (
He grew up in the northeastern Minnesota mining town of Hibbing, where his father co-owned Zimmerman Furniture and Appliance Co. Taken with the music of Hank Williams, Little Richard, Elvis Presley, and Johnny Ray, he acquired his first guitar in 1955 at age 14 and later, as a high school student, played in a series of rock and ro
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In observance of his birthday on May 26, 1926, Long Play on the Nightside with Andy O ‘ will be exploring several extended pieces by Jazz icon Miles Davis throughout the rest of May.
“In a Silent Way/It’s About That Time” (19:53) From the 1969 album “In a Silent Way” featured is an amazing collection of astonishing musicians. Miles Davis on trumpet, Wayne Shorter on soprano saxophone, John McLaughlin on electric guitar, Chick Corea on electric piano, Herbie Hancock on electric piano, Joe Zawinul on organ, Dave Holland- on upright bass, and Tony Williams on drums. This was Miles’s entrance into music with electric instruments and was, at the time of its release not considered Jazz or Rock but it took on the label Jazz-Rock fusion. Over the decades it has been recognized as one of Miles’ best.
Remembering Chick Corea: From Spain to Sorceress, 12 essential performances from the virtuoso Corea helped enrich the lexicon of jazz, merging its harmonic language with the heaviness (and amplification) of rock and funk. Chick Corea in1976. Polydor Records/Wikimedia Commons
Chick Corea, the pioneering keyboardist and bandleader who died last Tuesday at 79, will be forever regarded as a crucial architect of jazz-rock fusion.
It’s a fitting one-line tribute. Whether on his own, leading the collective Return to Forever or accompanying giants like Miles Davis (on landmark albums including “In a Silent Way” and “Bitches Brew”), Corea helped enrich the lexicon of jazz, merging its harmonic language with the heaviness (and amplification) of rock and funk. But no description, even one this broad, can encompass a vision so limitless.