JamsBio Magazine has just posted a wonderful piece on the three 1959 Columbia Jazz Legacy Edition titles titles, Miles Davis: Sketches of Spain, The Dave Brubeck Quartet: Time Out, and Charles Mingus: Ah Um. To read this piece, and post your own comments about this influential releases, go to JamsBio.com
Check out these fine art prints of Legendary Jazz Artists from ICON Collectibles. Visit ICON-Collectibles.com and see “Sketches of Spain” from Miles Davis, The “Anatomy of A Murder” Soundtrack from Duke Ellington, “Time Out” from Dave Brubeck, “Mingus Ah UM” from Charles Mingus.
MILES DAVIS
ICON-MDA-10143
Sketches of Spain (Canvas Album Art Cover)
This classic canvas album art cover is “Sketches Of Spain” from 1959 by Miles Davis. Available in two sizes (16” x 16” and 24” x 24”), each album cover is meticulously transferred to canvas and wrapped around a deep wooden frame. All edges are completely finished and each canvas is ready to hang right out of the box.
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16×16 - $99.00
24×24 - $149.00
DUKE ELLINGTON
ICON-DEL-10145
Photo by: John Hamilton
Duke Ellington - Recording “Anatomy of a Murder” Score - Los Angeles, 1959
Otto Preminger’s 1959 courtroom drama, “Anatomy of a Murder,” was the first major Hollywood production to deploy an extensive jazz score. Duke Ellington’s groundbreaking compositions for the film, an elegant and fluid combination of complex moods and rhythm, broke with programmatic musical tradition. The non-literal direction of Ellington’s score evoked emotional and psychological nuance eons beyond mere plot diagrams, creating a dynamic new musical language for cinema in the process. Ellington himself had a cameo role in the film, appearing as “Pie-Eye,” the proprietor of a roadhouse. Photographer John Hamilton snapped the Duke in an LA recording studio working on the “Anatomy of a Murder” score in 1959.
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$299.00 - $999.00
DAVE BRUBECK
ICON-DBR-10066
Photo by: Don Hunstein
“Time Out” with Dave Brubeck - July 1959
In the summer of 1959, the Dave Brubeck Quartet — Brubeck (piano), Paul Desmond (alto saxophone), Eugene Wright (double bass) and Joe Morello (drums) — laid down three sessions (June 25, July 1, August 18) in the 30th Street Studio with producer Teo Macero for an experiment in polyrhythmic cool jazz called “Time Out.” The album’s defining track, “Take Five,” with its eternal sax hook and quintuple time signature has become one of the most enduring jazz standards of all-time. This Don Hunstein snapshot of the Brubeck Quartet captures the essential magic of that in those sessions.
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$299.00 - $1,699.00
CHARLES MINGUS
ICON-CMI-10031
Photo by: Don Hunstein
Charles Mingus Laughing in Studio, May 1959
Jazz bassist/pianist/composer/bandleader Charles Mingus came to Columbia Records in 1959 and in the course of a single year, wrote and recorded two groundbreaking albums– “Mingus Ah Um” and “Mingus Dynasty”–which combined the discipline of sophisticated composition with the freedom of avant-garde exploration. Shot in May 1959, this Don Hunstein portrait of Charles Mingus in the studio captures the formidable humor and spontaneity of the artist as he cracks up mid-session at some off-camera hi-jinks.
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$299.00 - $999.00
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Genre-defining albums by Columbia artists Miles Davis (Kind of Blue, Sketches of Spain), Dave Brubeck (Time Out) and Charles Mingus (Mingus Ah Um) all celebrate their 50th anniversaries in 2009, alongside John Coltrane’s Giant Steps and Ornette Coleman’s The Shape of Jazz To Come.
Following the release of Kind of Blue: Legacy Edition in January,
Columbia/Legacy announces three more multi-disc 1959 commemorative sets:
• Time Out by the Dave Brubeck Quartet (DOUBLE-CD + DVD)
• Sketches of Spain by Miles Davis (DOUBLE-CD)
• Mingus Ah Um by Charles Mingus (DOUBLE-CD)
Available at both physical and digital retail outlets starting May 26, 2009
Judging by the flow of jazz masterpieces recorded that year – among them, the Columbia Records classics Time Out by the Dave Brubeck Quartet, Sketches of Spain by Miles Davis, and Mingus Ah Um by Charles Mingus – 1959 may indeed be described as the landmark year in the history of modern jazz recording.
In celebration of 1959 – Jazz’s Greatest Year, all three of those albums have been reconfigured as multi-disc expanded editions (either with an additional audio CD, or video DVD, or both). With brand-new liner notes essays also planned for each title, these new editions of Time Out, Sketches of Spain, and Mingus Ah Um will be available at all physical and digital retail outlets starting May 26th.
The confluence of ground-breaking jazz albums issued in 1959 is a subject that has fascinated scholars and critics for the better part of a half-century. The same year that saw the deaths of jazz icons Lester Young in March, Sidney Bechet in May, and Billie Holiday in July, also included the releases of Kind Of Blue by Miles (which was reissued in January 2009 as a deluxe double-CD Legacy Edition), Blues and Roots by Mingus, John Coltrane’s Giant Steps, Ornette Coleman’s The Shape of Jazz To Come, The Genius Of Ray Charles, The Cannonball Adderley Quintet in San Francisco, the Oscar Peterson Songbook series, and Duke Ellington’s soundtrack for Anatomy Of A Murder, to name a few.
