Amsterdam Blue

Miles Davis - So What: The Complete 1960 Amsterdam Concerts (2013) {2CD Japan Edition FNCJ-5612~13}
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC (tracks)+CUE+LOG -> 586 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 334 Mb
Full Artwork @ 600 dpi (png) -> 405 Mb | 5% repair rar
© 2013 Dutch Jazz Archive / 55 Records | FNCJ-5612~13
Jazz / Modal Music / Hard Bop / Trumpet

Some performances get talked about decades after they happened. It's all about "you had to be there" and if you would believe all the people who claimed to be present at such a show, the venue would have collapsed. Two of those shows are now released in full. Trumpet maestro Miles Davis performed at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam on April 9 and October 15, 1960. John Coltrane was on sax in April and his replacement Sonny Stitt played in October. With Wynton Kelly on piano, Paul Chambers on bass and Jimmy Cobb on drums. Miles Davis was on fire both nights.

New Amsterdam and Nonesuch Records release The Blue Hour, a song cycle written collaboratively by the female composers Rachel Grimes, Angélica Negrón, Shara Nova, Caroline Shaw, and Sarah Kirkland Snider; this unique joint vision among a female collective is available October 14, 2022. The cycle was commissioned by, and is performed with, the Boston–based chamber orchestra A Far Cry. (Nova also is featured as vocal soloist.) Set to excerpts from Carolyn Forché’s epic poem On Earth, the music follows one woman’s journey through the space between life and death via thousands of hallucinatory and non-linear images. Exploring memories of childhood, of war, of love, and of loss, The Blue Hour amplifies the beauty, pain, and fragility of human life from a collective female perspective.

When more than twenty years ago, when the first episode of the budget compilation series VERVE & BLUE NOTE TODAY was released, no one would have thought that the series would be so popular to this day. Then as now, the compilations are not only suitable for finding out about new tracks and artists from the jazz scene, they are also great listening fun. With Gregory Porter, Marcus Miller, Melody Gardot, John Scofield and even pop star Seal, there are again greats with new titles that you no longer have to imagine. Interesting discoveries include the high-flyer Sons of Kemet from England, the jazz / techno duo Tony Allen+ Jeff Mills and the promising new discovery Jon Batiste from the USA.