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Miles Davis-Gil Evans: Bess, Oh, Where Is My Bess? (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music July 10, 09How does one pick a favorite piece from Gil's and Miles' Porgy and Bess album? Tough to do. I've chosen this piece ...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: MARIA SCHNEIDER SELECTS 12 ESSENTIAL GIL EVANS TRACKS
In 2006, during a “listening session” with New York Times music writer Ben Ratliff, Maria Schneider compared Gil Evan...
Miles Davis: Bess, Oh Where's My Bess (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music July 10, 09In Act III, Scene 3 of Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess (1935), Porgy returns to Catfish Row after a week in jail that...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: THE GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY OF PORGY AND BESS
Kind of Blue (1959) is usually cited as Miles Davis's best-selling album, and has often been called the bes...
Fischer, Clare (Douglas) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Fischer, Clare (Douglas), composer, pianist, educator; b. Durand, MI, 22 October 22 1928. His parents are Luella Blan...
Miles Davis (featuring Philly Joe Jones): Gone (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music April 08, 08"The thing about Philly Joe's playing," said Paul Motian in a 1996 Percussive Notes interview, "was that somehow his ...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: THE GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY OF PORGY AND BESS
Kind of Blue (1959) is usually cited as Miles Davis's best-selling album, and has often been called the bes...
Miles Davis: Fishermen, Strawberry and Devil Crab (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music June 09, 08As Act II, Scene 3 of Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess (1935) opens, dawn breaks over Catfish Row. As always, day...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: THE GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY OF PORGY AND BESS
Kind of Blue (1959) is usually cited as Miles Davis's best-selling album, and has often been called the bes...
Miles Davis: Bess, You Is My Woman Now (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music June 10, 08Of the numerous jazz adaptations of Porgy and Bess in the mid-to-late 1950s – many motivated by the production of a H...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: THE GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY OF PORGY AND BESS
Kind of Blue (1959) is usually cited as Miles Davis's best-selling album, and has often been called the bes...
Miles Davis: It Ain't Necessarily So (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music June 10, 08The wistful, longing intro by Davis, cleverly utilizing the opening melodic line from "I Got Plenty of Nothin'," coul...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: THE GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY OF PORGY AND BESS
Kind of Blue (1959) is usually cited as Miles Davis's best-selling album, and has often been called the bes...
Miles Davis: My Man's Gone Now (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music June 10, 08British critic Max Harrison felt that the full potential of Gil Evans's charts for Miles Davis's Porgy and Bess was n...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: THE GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY OF PORGY AND BESS
Kind of Blue (1959) is usually cited as Miles Davis's best-selling album, and has often been called the bes...
Miles Davis: Gone, Gone, Gone (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music June 14, 08Act I, Scene 2 of Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess (1935) finds a roomful of destitute Negroes attending the sheet-cov...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: THE GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY OF PORGY AND BESS
Kind of Blue (1959) is usually cited as Miles Davis's best-selling album, and has often been called the bes...
Miles Davis: Buzzard Song (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music July 05, 08Miles's and Gil's Porgy and Bess opens with a loud chord, proceeding to Miles's take on a song cut from the opera's o...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: THE GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY OF PORGY AND BESS
Kind of Blue (1959) is usually cited as Miles Davis's best-selling album, and has often been called the bes...
Miles Davis: Summertime (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music July 05, 08This is a straightforward rendition of the Gershwin classic, with Miles playing the melody, then improvising against ...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: THE GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY OF PORGY AND BESS
Kind of Blue (1959) is usually cited as Miles Davis's best-selling album, and has often been called the bes...
Miles Davis: Prayer (Oh Doctor Jesus) (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music July 05, 08This section of Porgy and Bess was never well known by the general public. In the opera, Bess goes with other residen...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: THE GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY OF PORGY AND BESS
Kind of Blue (1959) is usually cited as Miles Davis's best-selling album, and has often been called the bes...
Miles Davis: I Loves You, Porgy (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music July 08, 08One of the most beautiful songs in Porgy and Bess, the music during the entire first part of this track seems to floa...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: THE GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY OF PORGY AND BESS
Kind of Blue (1959) is usually cited as Miles Davis's best-selling album, and has often been called the bes...
Miles Davis: There's a Boat That's Leaving Soon for New York (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music July 08, 08Although this song is actually sung in the opera's penultimate scene, it makes a fine ending for the album. Clearly i...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: THE GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY OF PORGY AND BESS
Kind of Blue (1959) is usually cited as Miles Davis's best-selling album, and has often been called the bes...
Miles Davis: Summertime (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music July 29, 08One of the many wonders in the Miles Davis/Gil Evans album of Porgy and Bess is how Evans was able to remain faithful...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: SUMMERTIME
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Gil Evans: Jambangle (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music December 21, 08Gil Evans kept a low profile in the music world from 1949-1955, even though he arranged for Billy Butterfield and var...
McCoy Tyner: Afro Blue (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music February 11, 09Although his former employer John Coltrane made this Mongo Santamaria-penned song a permanent staple of his repertoir...
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McCoy Tyner, by Jos L. K...
Miles Davis-Gil Evans: My Ship (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music July 10, 09This cut is beauty personified. There's nothing seemingly complex or unusual, but even the simple half-note pads tha...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: MARIA SCHNEIDER SELECTS 12 ESSENTIAL GIL EVANS TRACKS
In 2006, during a “listening session” with New York Times music writer Ben Ratliff, Maria Schneider compared Gil Evan...
Miles Davis: My Ship (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music July 10, 09"My Ship,” helmed by arranger Gil Evans to a port of pure bliss, is the most sublime 4½ minutes in all of music. In p...
DiRubbo, Mike (Michael Anthony) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Saxophonist, composer; b. New Haven, CT, 25 July 1970. His mother, AnnaMarie, was born in New Haven in 1941. His f...
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