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Tag: fusion

Herbie Hancock and the Warner Years

I’ve been listening to Herbie Hancock for nearly ten years now. I started out with his seminal funk/fusion masterpiece Headhunters. I’d just gotten out of an 8 hour Hazmat training session in South Bend and my mind was fried. I stopped at a Borders book store before heading home to grab a coffee and just […]

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Miles Davis :: Miles at The Fillmore

I’m about 10 minutes into “Paraphernalia” on the recently reissued Miles at The Fillmore and I feel like I’m coming down from some bad trip. Not the kind of trip you’d have with your pals in mom and dad’s basement on a Saturday afternoon. Not a sugar buzz, or LSD. No, like some back alley […]

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If Miles Were Jimi: Bitches, Brews, Big Fun, and a Dandy Boxer

I guess you could say I’ve got an affliction. It’s something I can’t seem to get over, and to be honest I don’t want to get over it. You see, I’m in the midst of a Miles Davis binge. It’s more than a binge, though. It seems more like an absolute electric Miles infestation of […]

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Discovered :: Miles Davis’ Pangaea

If you’ve never been to Jazz Record Mart on Illinois St in Chicago, you don’t know what you’re missing friends. It’s a chunk of vinyl history tucked into a small building that if you blinked you’d miss it. I’ve been there three, maybe four times and each time I end up leaving knowing I could’ve […]

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