Exploring vintage jazz vinyl with a focus on label and pressing details, discographical information and critical musings on the music found within the grooves.
Despite countless hours enjoying the music of Miles Davis there has always been one period of his that has alluded me: his time spent with Gil Evans in the late 1950s. I haven't yet fully embraced that period, but when I chanced upon an original pressing of Miles Ahead I jumped at the opportunity to explore it further.
Read MoreTeddy Charles had an important place in jazz in the 1950's before essentially disappearing from the music business altogether from the 1960's onward (before a brief comeback in 2012). His lasting reputation will always lie with The Teddy Charles Tentet, an influential album that took an adventurous take on jazz that was quite ahead of it's time.
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