One of the more adventurous and transformative eras in jazz happened amid the societal turbulence of the mid- to late-1960s, and Miles Davis and John Coltrane were leading the way. In his new book ...
Legendary trumpeter Miles Davis released Kind of Blue in August 1959, leading into the era of 60s improvisational jazz. The album featured Cannonball Adderley, John Coltrane, and Bill Evans ...
Remixes by Opolopo, Peas, and Wicked Jazz Sounds Available Digitally on October 25 Gregory Porter, whose 2010 Motema Music debut, Water, was nominated in the 2011 54th Annual Grammy Awards as Best ...
Gil Evans, a Canadian-born pianist and composer, “enormously expanded the vocabulary of the jazz orchestra," as writer Gene Lees pointed out, reducing the standard big-band instrumentation, ...
The Stage is Set; Revolution; Reaction; Re-evaluation; Intellectualization; Reacceptance; Jazz Around the World; Jazz and the Mass Audience; Epilogue https://siris ...