by Takehiko Tokiwa, Jazz Life
JAPAN: Vanessa Rubin, Roxy Coss and Jeff Coffin in Jazz Life Magazine
On The Corner Live
REVIEW: Jazz da Gama Reviews Jeff Coffin/Dave Liebman’s “On the Corner Live!”
Raul da Gama, Jazz da Gama Miles Davis once said, “I have to change. It’s like a curse.” Of course he didn’t mean that he was under a hex. He was referring to impulse to evolve, much like the larger human family. The only difference was that Mr Davis evolved over a much shorter period. … Read More
REVIEW: Jazziz Reviews Jeff Coffin/Dave Liebman’s “On the Corner Live!”
Philip Booth, Jazziz “I didn’t think much of it,” David Liebman said about On the Corner, the funk-driven 1972 Miles Davis album on which the saxophonist appeared. Initially dismissed as one of the trumpeter’s lesser works, the Teo Macero-produced release’s reputation has steadily been rehabbed, a process that accelerated with 2007’s six-CD box set documenting the … Read More
REVIEW: Jeff Coffin/Dave Liebman’s “On the Corner Live” Gets a 4 Star Review from Jazzwise!
Click on image to enlarge: Stuart Nicholson, Jazzwise Recorded live in the Nashville venue 3rd & Lindsley, the legacy of Miles Davis still provides musicians old enough to know better with the kind of inspiration that lifts this recording from ‘Good’ to ‘Very Good’. Liebman was, of course, on the original Davis recording of On … Read More
REVIEW: The Sydney Morning Herald Reviews Jeff Coffin/Dave Liebman’s “On the Corner Live!”
John Shand, The Sydney Morning Herald ★★★★½ The impetus was Sly and the Family Stone’s In Time from the 1973 album Fresh, crowned by Andy Newmark’s drumming. Miles Davis walked into the rehearsal room, played it to his band over and over, and told them that this was how he now wanted the music to sound. So the transition from … Read More
REVIEW: Intoxicate Magazine (JAPAN) Reviews Jeff Coff/Dave Liebman’s “On the Corner Live!”
Tokiwa Takehiko, Intoxicate Magazine On The Corner, released by Miles Davis (tp) in 1972, is an ambition that Miles released to street African youth. James Brown (vocal), Sly and Family Stone’s music, and the concept of Ornet Coleman (as, tp, vln) and British composer Paul Bachmaster, who had overwhelming support at the time. It fuses, and … Read More
REVIEW:Dave Liebman and Jeff Coffin’s “On the Corner Live!” Reviewed by Jazz Journal
By: Brian Morton, Jazz Journal The personnel reads like a firm of arbitrage lawyers. Lieb does the arrangements and the honours in introducing the concept – repertory performance of radical music possibly needs some kind of justification – but it was saxophonist Jeff Coffin who thought up the project and booked the top-flight Nashville band … Read More
REVIEW: JazzTimes Reviews Jeff Coffin & Dave Liebman’s “On the Corner Live! The Music of Miles Davis!
Bill Meredith, JazzTimes Of the many debate-prompting releases from Miles Davis’ shape-shifting career, On the Corner (1972) may top the list. The trumpeter admitted the music was influenced by funk artists like James Brown and Sly & the Family Stone, the result being an album rooted more in rhythm than electric studio predecessors like Bitches Brew or Jack Johnson. The … Read More
REVIEW: Dave Liebman/Jeff Coffin’s “On the Corner Live” reviewed by UK Vibe
By: Alan Musson, UKVibe It seems appropriate that Dave Liebman should get top billing on this album, as he played on the first side of the original On the Corner which was released in 1972. Early in 1973, Liebman also joined Davis’s touring band. However, the current album is not a recreation of the music … Read More
REVIEW: New York City Jazz Record Features Dave Liebman & Jeff Coffin’s New Album “On The Corner Live! The Music of Miles Davis”
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