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Jim Bliss<p>Tonight's album at bedtime is Sketches of Spain by Miles Davis and Gil Evans. Because sometimes only the best jazz will do.</p><p>Goodnight Internet.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/NowPlaying" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NowPlaying</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Music</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/SketchesOfSpain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SketchesOfSpain</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/MilesDavis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MilesDavis</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/GilEvans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GilEvans</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Jazz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jazz</span></a></p>
Andi Chorley<p>Welcomed sleep and greeted Thor's day after my swim with Guitar Forms a 1965 album by Kenny Burrell, featuring arrangements by Gil Evans. Evans' orchestra appears on five of the album's nine tracks. </p><p>Guitar Forms Review by Richard Mortifoglio</p><p>...Witness his landmark 1965 collaboration with Gil Evans, Guitar Forms, which rivals anything the arranger did with Miles Davis. Indeed, the track "Lotus Land" has a bolero form very reminiscent of Sketches of Spain. There is no stinting on the blues here, either, as evidenced on "Downstairs" and "Terrace Theme." But the highlights are the bossa nova version of Alec Wilder's "Moon and Sand," as well as a characteristically slow and luxurious treatment of Harold Arlen's "Last Night When We Were Young." Throughout, Burrell takes thoughtful, concise, and utterly musical solos, and even switches to acoustic classical guitar on "Prelude #2" and "Loie."</p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/kennyburrell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>kennyburrell</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/gilevans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gilevans</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/jazz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>jazz</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ververecords" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ververecords</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/morningmadnessmusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>morningmadnessmusic</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0w5amYH7NeM&amp;list=PLvxWibFr0wiLXaegSULNzwUcrz5c4K5Pm&amp;index=2" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=0w5amYH7Ne</span><span class="invisible">M&amp;list=PLvxWibFr0wiLXaegSULNzwUcrz5c4K5Pm&amp;index=2</span></a></p>
50+ Music<p>"So What" is the first track on the 1959 album <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/KindOfBlue" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KindOfBlue</span></a> by American trumpeter <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/MilesDavis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MilesDavis</span></a>. It is one of the best-known examples of <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/modalJazz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>modalJazz</span></a>, set in the <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/DorianMode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DorianMode</span></a> and consisting of 16 bars of D Dorian, followed by eight bars of E♭ Dorian and another eight of D Dorian. This <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/AABA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AABA</span></a> structure puts it in the <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/thirtytwobarFormat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>thirtytwobarFormat</span></a> of American popular song. The piano-and-bass introduction for the piece was written by <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/GilEvans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GilEvans</span></a> for <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/BillEvans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BillEvans</span></a> (no relation). <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqNTltOGh5c" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=zqNTltOGh5c</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Sophie HassfurtherSeverance and Gil Evans: has anybody noticed the parallels between Shapiro's theme song for Severance and Gil Evans' arrangement of My Ship from 1957?<br>Both use chords over a C pedal, both top voices move downwards chromatically.<br><br><a class="" href="https://hub.somaton.com/photos/sophie/image/1867bd45-0015-464e-85f9-d846a63e9533" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a><br><br>For your convenience:<br>Severance <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmS3m0OG-Ug" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Official Intro Title Sequence&nbsp;&nbsp;2022</a><br>Miles Ahead <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZwZgki3ads" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">My Ship</a><br><br>#<a class="" href="https://hub.somaton.com/search?tag=jazz" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">jazz</a> #<a class="" href="https://hub.somaton.com/search?tag=GilEvans" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">GilEvans</a> #<a class="" href="https://hub.somaton.com/search?tag=severance" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">severance</a> #<a class="" href="https://hub.somaton.com/search?tag=musictheory" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">musictheory</a>
kernpanik 🐾 🕊️ ☮<p><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/nowplaying" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nowplaying</span></a>: </p><p>Gil Evans - The Time of the Barracudas (1964)<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGoFjl_8Pbw&amp;list=PLvxWibFr0wiKp5H8QlOTgI8aW8PQ_FE4x&amp;index=1" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=JGoFjl_8Pb</span><span class="invisible">w&amp;list=PLvxWibFr0wiKp5H8QlOTgI8aW8PQ_FE4x&amp;index=1</span></a></p><p><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Jazz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jazz</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/JazzJazzJazz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JazzJazzJazz</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Music</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/GilEvans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GilEvans</span></a></p>
Denis 🌏<p>😂 I'd not heard this tune before. It's excellent. Especially the lyrics.</p><p>"Lots of hungry, homeless children in your own backyards<br>While you're very, very busy addressing<br>Twenty zillion Christmas cards<br>Now, Yuletide is the season to receive and oh, to give and ah, to share<br>But all you December do-gooders rush around and rant and rave and loudly blare"</p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/jazz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>jazz</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/nowListening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nowListening</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/milesDavis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>milesDavis</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/blueXmas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blueXmas</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/christmasMusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>christmasMusic</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/gilEvans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gilEvans</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/bobDorough" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bobDorough</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oX985c9z88M" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=oX985c9z88</span><span class="invisible">M</span></a></p>
Pascal Savelon 🎷<p><a href="https://jazztodon.com/tags/DemandezLeProgramme" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DemandezLeProgramme</span></a> : <br>1983 - Miles Davis Septet and the Gil Evans Orchestra - Yomiuriland Open Theater East - Tokyo</p><p>- <a href="https://jazztodon.com/tags/MilesDavis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MilesDavis</span></a> (tp), Bill Evans (sax), John Scofield (g), Mike Stern (g), Tom Barney (b), Al Foster (dr), Mino Cinelu (perc)<br>- <a href="https://jazztodon.com/tags/GilEvans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GilEvans</span></a> (dir, kbd), Lew Soloff (tp), Miles Evans (tp), Tom Malone (tb), David Sanborn (as), Peter Levin (synth), Hiram Bullock (g), ...</p><p><a href="https://jazztodon.com/tags/jazz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>jazz</span></a></p>
leoravera<p>"Boblicity" richiama nel titolo il linguaggio bebop, tuttavia il tempo è moderato e l'improvvisazione non ha grande spazio, a differenza di quanto accade nel bebop.<br>Ecco l'analisi del brano.</p><p>Leggi di più 👉 <a href="https://go.leoravera.it/4dzqukD" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">go.leoravera.it/4dzqukD</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GilEvans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GilEvans</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MilesDavis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MilesDavis</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Jazz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jazz</span></a><br><a href="https://go.leoravera.it/4dzqukD" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">go.leoravera.it/4dzqukD</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Indigo<p>Miles Davis: Sketches of Spain<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOYMGfr6a2k" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=rOYMGfr6a2</span><span class="invisible">k</span></a></p><p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/MilesDavis" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MilesDavis</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/GilEvans" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GilEvans</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/SketchesOfSpain" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SketchesOfSpain</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Jazz" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Jazz</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/KJAZZ" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>KJAZZ</span></a></p>