Miles Davis Archive

  • Fela Kuti, Nigerian music legend, political insurrectionist and provocateur against the corporate and missionary sell-out of African wisdom and religion, ending up in jail and tortured...and loved by the African people. Here, Jamaican-born, Africa-based writer Lindsay Barrett puts us on Fela's life path, his wild and unstructured Afrobeat sound, the commune, the wives, and the push against the Nigerian military dictatorship.

    Fela Kuti, Revolutionary Insurrectionist, Talismanic Afrobeat Pioneer

    Posted on September 3, 2016 | 3 Comments
    Fela Kuti, Nigerian music legend, political insurrectionist and provocateur against the corporate and missionary sell-out of African wisdom and religion, ending up in jail and tortured...and loved by the African people. Here, Jamaican-born, Africa-based writer Lindsay Barrett puts us on Fela's life path, his wild and unstructured Afrobeat sound, the commune, the wives, and the push against the Nigerian military dictatorship.

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  • The collaboration of trumpeter Miles Davis with Gil Evans' orchestral arrangement and composition elevated "the new thing," freeing modern jazz from big-band swing with lyrical-literary French horns and tuba and Davis taking up the flugelhorn.

    Creators of the Cool: Miles Davis and Gil Evans

    Posted on June 8, 2012 | 1 Comment
    The collaboration of trumpeter Miles Davis with Gil Evans' orchestral arrangement and composition elevated "the new thing," freeing modern jazz from big-band swing with lyrical-literary French horns and tuba and Davis taking up the flugelhorn.

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