Irving Townsend News Today

The Defense Intelligence Agency wants to move quickly in developing the Machine-assisted Analytic Rapid-repository System, but the massive project which will transform how the intelligence community uses data faces some hard problems.

We asked jazz musicians, writers and others to tell us what moves them. Listen to their choices.

This is an important album in the recorded legacy of Miles Davis. It is the first studio recording of what was referred to as Miles Davis Second Great Quintet. It was recorded in Los Angeles in January of 1965. The band with Miles Davis on trumpet, Wayne Shorter on tenor saxophone, Herbie Hancock on piano, Ron Carter on bass and Tony Williams on drums was on a west coast tour and Miles agreed to record the band under producer Irving Townsend as Miles had a temporary falling out with his long tim...