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Monday, August 6, 2012

PopMatters: Top 10 Performances of American Standards from Miles Davis Records



New on PopMatters, I consider the top 10 performances of American Standards from Miles Davis Records:
Jazz musicians have long been taking the popular tunes of their day and revamping them for their own purposes. The tradition of covering “standards” began near the dawn of jazz and continues to this day. Groups like the Bad Plus and the Vijay Iyer Trio shape the pop songs of the last couple generations (i.e. Nirvana, Michael Jackson, the Pixies, etc.) into their own improvisational mini-masterpieces.
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