Celebrating Miles Davis' birthday with occasional snapshots of his music, along with some historical notes read over the air.
Format (stolen from Cat):
ARTIST -- "SONG TITLE" -- ALBUM (LABEL, YEAR)
Miles Davis -- "Zimbabwe" [excerpt] -- Pangaea (Columbia, 1975)
* Glenn Spearman -- "Blaze" -- Free Worlds (Black Saint, 2000)
Miles Davis -- "Hallucinations" -- Pre-Birth of the Cool (Durium; recorded 1948)
* Either/Orchestra -- "Musicawi Silt" -- More Beautiful Than Death (Accurate, 2000)
* Derek Bailey/Steve Lacy -- "Input #1" -- Outcome (Potlatch, 2000)
* Georg Graewe -- "Off Minor" -- Impressions of Monk (Nuscope, 1999)
Miles Davis Quintet -- "My Funny Valentine" -- Cookin' (Prestige, 1987; orig. rel. 1955)
* Andrew Hill -- "Ball Square" -- Dusk (Palmetto, 2000)
* MIchael Marcus 3 -- "Blue Halo" -- Live in N.Y. (Soul Note, 2000)
Miles Davis -- "Concierto de Aranjuez" [excerpt] -- Sketches of Spain (Columbia, 1959)
* Matthew Shipp Duo with Mat Maneri -- "Knots" -- Gravitational Systems (Hat Hut, 2000)
* Matthew Shipp Quartet -- "Vision" -- Pastoral Composure (Thirsty Ear, 2000)
Miles Davis -- "So What" -- Kind of Blue (Columbia, 1959)
Miles Davis -- "So What" -- Live at the Plugged Nickel (Columbia, 1982; orig. rec. 1965)
* Michel Wintsch and Road Movie -- "Postludique" -- Michel Wintsch and Road Movie with Gerry Hemingway (Between the Lines, 1999)
* London Improvisers Orchestra -- "Changing Places - Summer 99" -- Proceedings (Emanem, 2000)
Miles Davis -- "Bitches Brew" -- Bitches Brew (Columbia, 1969)
* Horace Tapscott -- "Sandy and Niles" -- The Dark Tree 1 & 2 (Hat Hut, 2000; orig. rel. 1991)
* Return of the New Thing -- "Truth and Reconciliation" -- Return of the New Thing (Leo, 1999)
Miles Davis -- "Blue" -- Aura (Columbia, 1989)
* = Item in KZSU rotation
! = Pop anomaly
? = Item not in KZSU library
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