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How the Incorporation of Musical Modes on the Miles Davis Album ‘Kind of Blue’ Reinvented Jazz
YouTuber Polyphonic, who creates incredibly informative video essays about music took a look at the iconic Miles Davis album Kind of Blue. He specifically noted…

Historic Album Covers Cleverly Superimposed Over the Same Locations As They Appear in Present Day
Bob Egan of PopSpots, who is a real estate agent and “Rock and Roll Detective” in New York City, very cleverly finds where historic album…

Musician Performs a Hilarious Multi-Track Cover of ‘Yakety’ on Kazoo
Eric of EricsWurld performed a hilarious version of the classic Boots Randolph song “Yakety” (also the theme from Benny Hill) on kazoo with and amazing…

An Animated Miles Davis Talks About His Pressing Need to Create Music in a Lost Interview From 1986
In the premiere episode of “Notes from the Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame“, a collaborative series from Quoted Studios and Jazz at Lincoln Center, an…

Squeeze Box: The Complete Works of ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic, A 15-Album Set in an Accordion Case
Squeeze Box: The Complete Works of “Weird Al” Yankovic is a box set that spans Yankovic‘s full career and includes every album he’s ever released…

The Talented Musician Behind the Classic Animated Educational Series ‘Schoolhouse Rock!’
Great Big Story spoke with the great Bob Dorough, a brilliant musician who performed with jazz greats Miles Davis and Blossom Dearie. 92-year old Dorough…

Don Cheadle Captures the Passion of Jazz Great Miles Davis in Upcoming Biopic ‘Miles Ahead’
MILES AHEAD Official Trailer In the new trailer for the upcoming biopic Miles Ahead, actor Don Cheadle, who was hand-chosen by the musician’s family to…
‘Scaled In Miles’, An Intricate Interactive Timeline Navigating the Incredible Career of Miles Davis
Boston-base design shop Fathom has created a remarkable interactive map that utilizes integrated audio along an intricate timeline of the incredible career of jazz great…

Researcher Develops Jazz Music-Playing Robots That Can Improvise With a Human Musician
Musician and researcher Mason Bretan plays jazz with a backup band of four robots in what at first glance appears to be a clever application…