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| http://www.milesdavis.com/home.htm | ||
| Unable to be held to a single category, the influence on the innovative Miles lives on. See the official Miles Davis Web site: ( http://www.milesdavis.com/home.htm ) | ||
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| http://hepcat1950.com/f_miles.html | ||
| Davis remains a fascination among musicians and writers on jazz. Here is a collection of links to interviews with Miles. A site dedicated to Miles after 1967: http://www.miles-beyond.com/. PBS has an educational site for kids and includes information on Miles for them: http://pbskids.org/jazz/nowthen/miles.html NPR also did a special on what would have been Miles' 75th birthday: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4667610&sourceCode=RSS ( http://hepcat1950.com/f_miles.html ) | ||
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| http://gilevans.free.fr/biographie_us/ecran_bio.htm | ||
| More on the sophisticated collaborator with Miles on landmark albums over a span of decades. ( http://gilevans.free.fr/biographie_us/ecran_bio.htm ) | ||
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| http://www.johncoltrane.com/automat/swf/main.htm | ||
| The powerful legacy of John Coltrane lives, both through his pioneering musical style and his spiritual orientation to his music and his life. ( http://www.johncoltrane.com/automat/swf/main.htm ) | ||
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| http://www.jerryjazzmusician.com/mainHTML.cfm?page=tyner.html | ||
| Coltrane's later pianist, MyCoyTyner discusses the important album, "A Love Supreme" and his own career: http://www.innerviews.org/inner/mccoy.html ( http://www.jerryjazzmusician.com/mainHTML.cfm?page=tyner.html ) | ||
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| http://www.woodstockcd.com/artists/cobb-jimmy/so_nobody_else_can_hear/sonobodyelse.htm | ||
| Still creating ensembles and recordings, this drummer was on the album considered by top jazz critics as one of the top ten of all time, "Kind of Blue". See also http://www.pbs.org/jazz/biography/artist_id_cobb_jimmy.htm ( http://www.woodstockcd.com/artists/cobb-jimmy/so_nobody_else_can_hear/sonobodyelse.htm ) | ||
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| http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/Dave/mclaughlin/art/final.html | ||
| Another highly influential player from the Miles pantheon, Tony Williams, can be heard through his last interview here. Here he is one of the many drummers profiled http://www.drummerworld.com/drummers/Tony_Williams.html ( http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/Dave/mclaughlin/art/final.html ) | ||
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| http://www.herbiehancock.com/bio/ | ||
| From the same legendary second Miles quintet, Herbie Hancock is still a potent force in contemporary jazz and one of the earliest explorers in mixing jazz with other musical styles. ( http://www.herbiehancock.com/bio/ ) | ||
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| http://www.roncarter.net/officialSite.html | ||
| Ron Carter remains a force in jazz and has contributed to acid jazz as well as mainstream modern jazz. ( http://www.roncarter.net/officialSite.html ) | ||
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| http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4520032 | ||
| Read one journalists piece on composer, multi horn player Wayne Shorter and an industry Web page for him http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/4342 ( http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4520032 ) | ||
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| http://www.salon.com/05/reviews/dolphy.html | ||
| A profile of one of this era's important innovative horn players, Eric Dolphy, from an online magazine. ( http://www.salon.com/05/reviews/dolphy.html ) | ||
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| http://www.berkleeshares.com/songwriting__arranging/modal_harmony_jazz_composition | ||
| A free lesson from the Berklee School of Music in Boston is available in PDF form on Modal Harmony at this address ( http://www.berkleeshares.com/songwriting__arranging/modal_harmony_jazz_composition ) | ||
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| http://room34.com/coltrane/index.php | ||
| An academic thesis analyzing Coltrane's stylistic development based on various performance of his universal hit recording, "My Favorite Things," is available online. ( http://room34.com/coltrane/index.php ) | ||
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| http://www.john-coltrane.com/ | ||
| Access to some of Coltrane's recordings is available here. ( http://www.john-coltrane.com/ ) | ||
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| http://www.accattatis.com/artists/coltrane/giant_steps.html | ||
| A transcription of Trane's solo on his "rite of passage" composition for jazz improvisation is available on this page. ( http://www.accattatis.com/artists/coltrane/giant_steps.html ) | ||
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