Kind of Blue

...icons The channel to showcase everything from Davis' collaborations with Charlie Parker at the age of 19 to his landmark albums Kind of Blue, Birth of the Cool, Bitches Brew and beyond NEW YORK - SIRIUS XM Radio (NASDAQ: SIRI)...

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...in 1956 as the rising young lion on the jazz circuit who landed into history as the piano player for Miles Davis' 1958 masterwork Kind of Blue. Rocking a gentleman's mullet, full beard and wire-frame glasses with the tint, Evans looked more...

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In 2009 Kind of Blue, the album that symbolizes jazz music for more people the world over turned an astounding 50 years old. Originally released in August 1959, jazz' most influential album is also its best seller ever; having sold untold...

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...know who George Russell was. He was the composer of Afro-Cuban landmark "Cubano Be/Cubano Bop"; the invisible hand behind the modal jazz of Kind of Blue; the academic, big-band leader, tape loop experimentalist, embracer of funk and generally...

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...icons The channel to showcase everything from Davis' collaborations with Charlie Parker at the age of 19 to his landmark albums, "Kind of Blue," "Birth of the Cool," "Bitches Brew" and beyond NEW YORK, Nov. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/...

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...with saxophonist John Coltrane, his recordings with pianist Bill Evans, and collaborations with Gil Evans, such as the landmark album Kind of Blue, in 1959, which sold over two million copies. This comprehensive Sony release, on its Legacy...

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...in New York. "Nobody could have conceived that 50 years later this would be going on," he said of the extraordinary success of "Kind of Blue", the best-selling jazz album ever which still sells in the thousands every week. Many music...

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Logic: After seeing his friend Web entrepreneur Andy Baio post a project on Kickstarter aiming to transform Miles Davis' album "Kind of Blue" into 8-bit chiptune sound (imagine the pingy bings of an early Nintendo game), he thought,...

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Miles Davis: Miles & Kind of Blue In 1955, after a few years working with pick-up bands and fuelled by a legendary comeback appearance at the Newport Jazz Festival, Miles Davis assembled the band that's since become known as the First...

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...fought courageously Saturday at the Gem Theater to recreate Miles Davis’ “Kind of Blue.” </p><p>Defeat was inevitable. The album is universally acclaimed as a technical and emotional tour de force. </p><p>A near-capacity...

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