The long anticipated new album Invincible on Octob er 30, Michael Jackson looks to continue his domin ance over the world of popular music. Michael Jack son has enlisted several of today s most successful l producers including Rodney Jerkins, Teddy Riley, R. Kelly and Dr. Freeze to help him create a new of new…
Originally released in November 1982 on Epic Records, Michael Jackson s sixth solo album and second with producer Quincy Jones, rocketed the former child-star from the Jackson 5 into the stratosphere of international superstardom. Introducing the robot and the moonwalk into the international lexicon of clubland dance moves, Thriller helped revolutionize all aspects of mainstream pop culture – from radio…
The notorious and prolific Cleveland cult, Midnight, have been slaying the metal punk underground with their own, highly addictive brand of lust, filth, and sleaze dating back to the band s inception in 2003. Filthy, belligerent and obnoxious, Midnight make music to start fights to.One-man-band, Athenar, has been churning out an ungodly racket, dropping countless…
*ON LIMITED APPLE RED VINYL!!! If rock n roll s a dream, please don t wake me. Midwife s No Depression In Heaven, her fourth studio album, was written primarily in the back of vans while on tour endlessly over the course of the past few years. The record engages with the contemplative spirit of…
Original soundtrack to the 2016 motion picture. Miles Ahead is Don Cheadle s wildly entertaining and moving exploration of Miles Davis. This is a perfect primer on Davis career for the new fan and a brilliant audio keepsake of the film for those who ve studied his works inside and out. The album features 11…
Round About Midnight is an album by jazz musician Miles Davis. It was his debut on Columbia Records, and was originally released in March 1957. The album took it s name from the Thelonious Monk song Round Midnight . Recording sessions took place at Columbia Studio D on October 26, 1955, and at Columbia s…
A Tribute to Jack Johnson is a studio album and soundtrack by American jazz trumpeter, composer, and bandleader Miles Davis. It was originally released on February 24, 1971, by Columbia Records. It s two 25-minute-plus tracks were produced from recordings made on February 18 and April 7, 1970, at 30th Street Studio in New York…
This inventive post-bop treasure finds Miles totally reenergized by the young talent of his second quintet. His first album of new material in six years is a brilliantly excecuted exercise in tension and release! Includes Eighty-One; Little One; R.J.; Agitation; Iris; Mood, and the title track.
Filles de Kilimanjaro (named after the Kilimanjaro African Coffee) is one the many masterpieces American composer and trumpeter Miles Davis recorded during his lifetime. It can be seen as a transitional album, right between his acoustic and electric period. He recorded this incredible work of modern jazz together with music greats such as Wayne Shorter,…
In a live set bristling with energy, Miles keeps an exhilarating pace playing essentially the same repertoire of bebop tunes and standards that earlier quintets had played-but with increasing structural and rhythmic freedom. Includes So What; Walkin Joshua; Four; Seven Steps to Heaven, and more.
A foreshadowing of the area between rock and jazz that he would further explore with 1970 s hypnotic Bitches Brew, this was Miles first album to feature a full-blown electric approach. Incorporating elements of classical sonata form, both of the lengthy cuts featured here defy convention with 3 distinct movements in which harmony, rhythm and…
Regarded by many critics as the greatest jazz album of all time and Davis s masterpiece. This 1959 album s influence on music, including jazz, rock and classical, has led music writers to acknowledge it as one of the most influential albums of all time. This septet features Jazz heavyweights John Coltrane, Bill Evans and…
An electrifying experience as Davis moves away from his traditional quintet sound toward a more jazz rock feel later to be known as fusion. Illuminated by Herbie Hancock s Fender Rhodes, along with a guest appearance by George Benson on Paraphernalia.
Miles quintet (with George Coleman, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter and Tony Williams) was a band for the ages, one that performed with an incandescent beauty remarkable even for them on February 12, 1964 at Lincoln Center. Their explorations of All of You; Stella by Starlight; All Blues; I Thought About You, and the title classic…
The fourth studio album by the second great Miles Davis quintet (and the second recorded in 1967), Nefertiti marked yet another metamorphosis in Miles career. Includes Fall; Hand Jive; Madness; Riot; Pinocchio, and the title track, plus alternate takes on Hand Jive; Madness, and Pinocchio.
A sublime bit of Miles Davis electric funk – one of the best-remembered electric sets from the 70s, and for good reason too! The tracks are long, the jams are hard, and the whole thing has a lot more funk than some of the noise you d get on other Miles albums of the time…