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| 70 Years Of Cool | ...Blue Note has grown into one of the most influential music labels in the world. Today, the label boasts a back catalogue that includes such jazz icons as Thelonious Monk, MILES DAVIS, John Coltrane, and Herbie Hancock, as well as contemporary artists like Norah Jones.... |
| Between The Ears | ...A tour of the vast Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, New York, which is the final resting place for numerous jazz luminaries including Duke Ellington, MILES DAVIS, Coleman Hawkins, King Oliver and Max Roach.... |
| Bob Belden's Bitches Brew | ...Jez Nelson presents music from saxophonist Bob Belden and his group Animation (Tim Hagans, Scott Kinsey, Matt Garrison and Guy Licata) as they 'resynthesize' selections from MILES DAVIS's classic 'Bitches Brew' album.... |
| Branford Marsalis Presents Modern Jazz Classics | ...Branford Marsalis explores six of the biggest-selling and most influential jazz recordings of the last 40 years. 1: `Kind of Blue' by MILES DAVIS. The 1959 album that revolutionised the way the music was played by introducing the concept of modal jazz. With contributions from Ian Carr and Jimmy Cobb.... |
| Chameleon - The Herbie Hancock Story | ...He caught MILES DAVIS' attention, and the trumpeter recruited him to take the piano chair in what would become arguably the greatest acoustic jazz group of all time - Davis' '60s quintet with Wayne Shorter. Hancock stayed with Miles for most of the decade during which he, along with drummer Tony Williams and bassist Ron Carter, helped revolutionise traditional jazz concepts of the rhythm section and its relation to the soloists.... |
| Charles Mingus (1922-1979) | ...Donald Macleod is joined by biographer Brian Priestley to look at how Charles Mingus progressed from being a leading double bass player, working with great names of 20th century jazz such as Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, MILES DAVIS and Art Tatum, to realising his ambitions as a composer, and how, from the beginning, he acquired a reputation for being 'bullish'.... |
| Charlie Watts On Charlie Parker | ...Including contributions from MILES DAVIS, John Dankworth, Gary Giddins and Bird himself.... |
| Concerts That Changed Jazz | ...MILES DAVIS was already making the transition to jazz rock, but the 1970 Isle of Wight Rock Festival was the first time he appeared alongside the big names of rock, such as Jimi Hendrix, The Doors and Joan Baez. He delivered an electrifying set that firmly established him and his new image as a major attraction on the international rock circuit.... |
| Courtney Pine's Jazz Crusade | ...1/6. There's music from Herbie Hancock, Maceo Parker and Soil and Pimp Sessions amongst others. ourtney's special guest is legendary tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins, one of the few surviving icons from a golden era of jazz, whose contemporaries included John Coltrane, MILES DAVIS, Max Roach, Thelonious Monk and Art Blakey.... |
| Dave Brubeck's Cool Jazz | ...Celebrating his eightieth birthday with John Dankworth, Dave Brubeck recalls friendships with legends MILES DAVIS, Louis Armstrong and Art Tatum and how he created a new cool style with alto saxophonist Paul Desmond.... |
| Discovering Music | ...MILES DAVIS' 1959 album is one of the most significant achievements in the history of post war jazz. Geoffrey Smith dissects the different numbers on the album.... |
| Diz For Prez | ...Dizzy believed in civil rights, withdrawing from Vietnam and recognising communist China. He also wanted to make MILES DAVIS the head of the CIA. This programme reveals the serious and the silly side of a campaign that captured the spirit of a turbulent time.... |
| For One Night Only | ...MILES DAVIS And Quincy Jones, Live At Montreux... |
| Guy Barker's Jazz Collection | ...In the second programme of the series, Trumpet Masters, Guy looks at virtuoso performers including Louis Armstrong, Clifford Brown, Freddie Hubbard, MILES DAVIS, Chet Baker and Rex Stewart.... |
| Jazz Century | ...The possibility of a cool school in jazz had been present since the 1920s, but cool was only institutionalised after the initial fury of bebop had passed, courtesy of musicians like MILES DAVIS, Gil Evans and Gerry Mulligan.... |
| Jazz House, The [radio Scotland] | ...Stephen Duffy and Richard Michael present a special edition celebrating the legends of jazz, featuring profiles of Louis Armstrong, John Coltrane and MILES DAVIS.... |
| Jazz House | ...Stephen Duffy and Richard Michael present a special Legends of Jazz edition featuring music from Nina Simone, John Coltrane, MILES DAVIS, Thelonius Monk, Billie Holiday and others.... |
| Jazz Library | ...This programme features the extraordinary saxophonist Charlie Parker, still regarded as one of the greatest soloists and innovators in jazz. Alyn explores Parker's work from the earliest big band days to his premature death, including his partnerships with Dizzy Gillespie, MILES DAVIS and Fats Navarro. Studio guests are Brian Priestley, who discusses Parker's live recordings, and Peter King, who explains his significance as a saxophonist.... |
| Jazz Line-up | ...Claire Martin presents a concert given at the A-Trane Club in Berlin by the quartet of former MILES DAVIS bassist Ron Carter. It features pianist Stephen Scott, Drummer Payton Crossley and percussionist Rolando Morales-Matos, and was performed as part of Carter's Dear Miles tour.... |
| Jazz On 3 | ...Jez Nelson presents another chance to hear one of the programme's most requested sets from US jazz-funk fusion supergroup Medeski Scofield Martin and Wood, recorded at the Barbican in July 2007. The trio consisting of Hammond-organist John Medeski, drummer Billy Martin and bassist Chris Wood first collaborated with former MILES DAVIS guitarist John Scofield on the latter's 1998 album, A Go Go.... |
| Jazz On Stage | ...Guy also explores the stage compositions of Duke Ellington, MILES DAVIS and Gil Evans, as well as setting the stage for his own theatrical composition dZf, which premieres at the London Jazz Festival.... |
| Ken Clarke's Jazz Greats | ...MILES DAVIS... |
| Late Junction | ...Max Reinhardt's musical mix features a selection from MILES DAVIS's Jack Johnson sessions and Karlheinz Stockhausen's seminal work for voice and electronics Gesang der Junglinge.... |
| Miles Davis - Ten Years On | |
| Miles Davis At 80 | |
| Miles Plugs In | ...Craig Charles celebrates the 40th anniversary of MILES DAVIS' In A Silent Way, and explores the extraordinary music that Miles produced in the period dubbed the "Electric Era" from 1969-75.... |
| Millennium Jazz With Courtney Pine | ...Courtney Pine presents a six-part series charting the development of jazz this century. In this third programme, he reflects on the bebop era of the 40s and plays music from its leading exponents - Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker and MILES DAVIS.... |
| Mixing It | ...Mark Russell and Robert Sandall are joined by writer and musician David Toop to discuss the influence and legacy of MILES DAVIS' early electric period.... |
| Modern Jazz Classics With Branford Marsalis | ...Branford Marsalis returns with the series exploring eight of the biggest-selling and most influential jazz recordings of the last 40 years. 2: MILES DAVIS - Bitches Brew. The story behind MILES DAVIS's revolutionary 1969 recording which launched jazz rock as a genre and split the jazz community down the middle. With contributions from Joe Zawinul, Bennie Maupin, Chick Corea and Carlos Santana ... |
| Montreux And All That Jazz | ...Founded in 1967, over the years the Montreux Jazz Festival has become an unmissable event for music fans in Switzerland and around the world. Its stages have been graced by some of music's greats, from MILES DAVIS to Ray Charles and from David Bowie to Massive Attack. Whereas jazz constitutes the festival's historic core, other styles of music were quickly integrated.... |
| Private Passions | ...Michael Berkeley talks to Angela Flowers, who runs two LONDON art galleries. Her choice of music includes Ginette Neveu's Debussy, Paul Tortelier's Bach, and MILES DAVIS ... |
| Rockit - The Herbie Hancock Story | ...After leaving the MILES DAVIS quintet Herbie pioneered the new sounds of jazz funk in the 1970s. He talks about how Sly and the Family Stone and his new found interest in Buddhism helped him to create the seminal Head Hunters album in 1973.... |
| Secret Kind Of Blue, The | ...In 1959 Columbia Records released Kind of Blue, the new LP by MILES DAVIS. It was a new sound for jazz, and the height of cool. Today, Kind of Blue continues to outsell the vast majority of new jazz albums.... |
| Something Understood [world Service] | ...Performed by MILES DAVIS... |
| Soul Music | ...Tellling the stories of people whose lives have been changed by MILES DAVIS' classic track... |
| Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone [6 Music] | ...Live Freaks: MILES DAVIS... |
| Words And Music | ...Music by Granados, Falla and MILES DAVIS is combined with examples of the flamenco and fado traditions, while Andrew Wincott and Yolanda Vazquez read work by Portuguese and Spanish writers such as Lorca and Fernando Pessoa.... |