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JAZZ NOTES.(Brief article)
HIS WAY -- In the mid-seventies, when the brassman Warren Vache arrived on the New York scene straight out of Rahway, New Jersey, he and his sometime associate the saxophonist Scott Hamilton became eager poster boys for traditional jazz, upholding a prewar aesthetic untouched by bebop, let alone modal or free jazz. Today Vache's lyrical, unwaveringly melodic playing has transcended rigid notions of style and itself become classic.
His new album, "Don't Look Back" (Arbors), features a version of "Springsville" (here simply entitled "Spring"), a highlight of Miles Davis's 1957 masterpiece "Miles Ahead." Davis's work is notable for its sustained atmosphere of passionate introspection, and Vache achieves a similar muted yet piercing emotional tone. Recorded with a twelve-member ...
- A Look Back at the Life and Music of Bill Evans
- Transcript from: NPR Weekend Edition - Sunday January 28, 1996 700+ words
...was a good time to take a look back at the pianist's music and...GALLAGHER, Reporter: When Miles Davis was asked to describe Bill...In 1958, Evans joined the Miles Davis Sextet. With Evans at the...Kind of Blue. [excerpt of Miles Davis Sextet performing `So What...
- 'Learning Through Art' to honor Miles Davis at Artexpo for his contribution to...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire March 16, 1990 700+ words
...THROUGH ART' TO HONOR MILES DAVIS AT ARTEXPO FOR HIS CONTRIBUTION...16 /PRNewswire/ -- Miles Davis, the legendary jazz...important to me and not to look back, or care what others...the opportunity to let Miles Davis know that his special...
- Imagine. (jazz musician Miles Davis)
- Magazine article from: Interview September 1, 1994 700+ words
...decided to feature one of the greatest trumpeters of all time, Miles Davis, in our groundbreaking April 1986 special music issue. In...with the technology that gave his talent the tools to never look back. Having gone cheek to cheek with Dizzy Gillespie, Coleman...
- Miles beyond: true to his rebellious spirit, Davis' posthumous induction...
- Magazine article from: Daily Variety Kubernik, Ken March 13, 2006 700+ words
Miles Davis did not wait for anyone. Even titling a new composition was a nuisance...plugged in at the Newport Folk Festival in '65. "Miles could never look back," the pianist recalls for Variety. "He was sick of his old sound...
- Jazz fest presents a musical look back.(Concert review)
- Newspaper article from: Times Union (Albany, NY) June 26, 2007 700+ words
...Luc Ponty and George Benson, both on Saturday. The long look back continued on Sunday with tributes to two of the '78 performers...renditions of Joe Henderson's "If," Goldings' "As One" and Miles Davis' stellar "Seven Steps to Heaven," but it was their original...
- Jazz fest offers a musical look back.(Concert review)
- Newspaper article from: Times Union (Albany, NY) June 25, 2007 700+ words
...Luc Ponty and George Benson, both on Saturday. The long look back continued on Sunday with tributes to two of the '78 performers...renditions of Joe Henderson's "If," Goldings' "As One" and Miles Davis' stellar "Seven Steps to Heaven," but it was their original...
- Musicians look back as Newport hits 50.(Arts and Lifestyle)
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald Young, Bob August 13, 2004 700+ words
...exposed new listeners to his music. "I first played there with Miles Davis, as a sideman, so a lot of people heard me live for the...over the world. But Hancock laughed when he recalled what Miles Davis told him about being included in the Newport event. "The...
- Don't look back in anger
- Newspaper article from: The Independent - London Steven Poole March 1, 1996 700+ words
Pop quiz: what do Miles Davis's Miles Ahead, Ludwig Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations...Sinfonietta in a series of concerts playing works by Thelonius Monk, Miles Davis, Gil Evans, Hans Werner Henze, John Cage and Dmitri Shostakovich...
