Miles Davis’ Album On the Nook Tried to Woo Younger Rock & Funk Followers: First Thought of a Catastrophe, It is Now Hailed as a Masterpiece

Miles Davis did­n’t put out any stu­dio albums from 1973 till the mid­dle of 1981. In clarify­ing the rea­sons for this lacu­na in his report­ing profession, Milesol­o­gists can level to a vari­ety of fac­tors within the man’s professional­fes­sion­al and per­son­al life. However one in par­tic­u­lar looms giant: the fail­ure of his 1972 album On the…

Kate Bush, Annie Lennox and 1,000 Musicians Protest AI with a New Silent Album

The excellent news is that an album has simply been launched by Kate Bush, Annie Lennox, Damon Albarn of Goril­laz, The Conflict, Tori Amos, Hans Zim­mer, Pet Store Boys, Jamiro­quai, and Yusuf (pre­vi­ous­ly often known as Cat Stevens), Bil­ly Ocean, and many oth­er musi­cians moreover, most of them British. The dangerous information is that it…

How A Charlie Brown Christmas, and Its Beloved Soundtrack Album, Virtually By no means Occurred

A Char­lie Brown Christ­mas makes use of a solid of ama­teur baby voice actors, offers with the theme of sea­son­al depres­sion, and cul­mi­nates in the recita­tion of a Bible verse, all to a jazz rating. It was not, protected to say, the spe­cial that CBS had anticipate­ed, to say noth­ing of its spon­sor, the Coca-Cola…

How Keith Jarrett Performed on a Damaged Piano & Turned a Doubtlessly Disastrous Live performance Into the Greatest-Promoting Piano Album of All Time (1975)

Close to­ly fifty years in the past, the cel­e­brat­ed younger pianist Kei­th Jar­rett arrived within the West Ger­man metropolis of Köln (guess­ter recognized in Eng­lish as Cologne). Hav­ing simply come off a 500-mile-long street journey from Switzer­land, the place he’d performed a con­cert the pre­vi­ous day, he was left with naked­ly any time to recov­er…