Career-spanning box sets are often stuck in a classic-rock past, as some newer artists view the collections as career-ending milestones.
Miles Davis; “Miles in France 1963 & 1964 — Miles Davis Quintet: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 8″ (Sony) 1963 was a pivotal year for Miles Davis, and this six-CD, eight-LP set finds him on the ...
the latest installment of the Miles Davis Bootleg Series and the 30th anniversary vinyl reissue of Plastikman’s rave classic Musik comprise a sampling of what came out this year from music’s ...
With the rise in popularity of 'never-before-heard,' archival music releases over the past decade-plus, the Miles Davis Bootleg Series is one to be greatly acknowledged. This year, the highly ...
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Jazz Off the Record
In the late 1960s, the recording industry lost interest in America’s greatest art form. But in a small, dark club on the ...
From his roots in New York’s Greenwich Village folk music scene of the early ‘60s to his more recent role as a grizzled blues ...
"I've changed the course of music five times," Miles Davis once joked. The man wasn't lying: his need to try new genres made him one of the most impactful artists of the 20th century, a figure who ...
Some of the most crucial tracks by the jazz great Miles Davis have been hiding in plain sight for decades—four numbers, from a May 1958 session, set down by the sextet that the following year ...