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Mr. Coltrane, one of the greatest if not the greatest jazz sax players to have ever lived has been gone for 38 years, but as per this article, he has CDs at or about the top of the charts today...
http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Musi...eut/index.html
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8/10
Interesting take on a 'biopic' of an intensely interesting person. Has a very free form 'impressionistic' feel to it, not dissimilar to the subject's music. Which largely makes sense, as the inspiration for the film.
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from today's edition of "The Writer's Almanac"
It’s the birthday of jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer Miles Davis (1926). He was born in Alton, Illinois, and grew up in East Saint Louis. His family was fairly well off, a fact he liked to remind people of, since they tended...26 May 2017, 06:26 Friday -
This is a 24 bit re-mastered recording, never before released in this country. 6 trackes on this CD, akin to something called "White Heat", rather than the sound of Kind of Blue. It's a nice CD with these songs and includes an introduction by Willis Connover
Ah-Leu-Cha
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For doubters about the size of my Miles Davis CD collection, lol. I tended to focus on the Niles collection that fetured John Coltrane on Sax, that's just ultimate jazz right there. Those two cats could make it happen!
This does include my Round About You CD that just crapped out, so...
