No other post-bop jazz musician had been both so assertive and so influential in playing ballads. A bunch of cats still played cool but they didn’t capture the attention of young lions looking to make new music. Miles had the charisma that most of his cool contemporaries lacked. Once you heard what Miles did with standards, well, a new standard was set.
Still studying Miles. This week we feature
Miles Davis playing standards. Then we hop down under to New Zealand for latest releases from
Ladi6 and
Trinity Roots. Then we get a bunch of artists covering the same standards that Miles covered:
Nancy Wilson, Hugh Masekela, Ray Charles and
Cleo Laine, Donald Harrison, Ahmad Jamal, McCoy Tyner, Lina Nyberg, Ron Carter, Dara Tucker, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Mark Murphy, Esther Phillips, Nina Simone, Eve Cornelious, Eddie Harris, Will Downing, Ben Webster, Kenny Burrell, Shirley Horn, Bireli Lagrene & Sylvain Luc, Cassandra Wilson, The Modern Jazz Quartet, Vijay Iyer, and
Inspiration.
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