Welcome to Miles Davis Online

Welcome to Miles Davis Online – a Blog dedicated to the legendary jazz trumpeter, bandleader and composer Miles Davis. The ambition of this Blog is to enable you the opportunity to discover and experience everything under the sun about Miles Davis. From his classic recordings and cool style, to his unmatched legacy and influence, to [...]

Miles Davis + Skateboard = So Cool

Growing up I was more into surfing than skateboarding, but one look at Western Edition’s Miles Davis ‘59 Quintet Boards, and I’m ready to hit the local skate park immediately. If there were any doubt about Miles Davis’ everlasting appeal to creative types look no further than these awesome skateboards from Western Edition’s 10-year Spring/Summer [...]

Listen… to Miles Davis

Via David Hill at the always enjoyable jazz Hot House, I was reminded of Lockwood & Summit’s fantastic (and rare) audio interview of Miles Davis on KXLW in East St. Louis from 1953. Miles was visiting with DJ Harry Frost on his ‘Fresh Air’ show. David sums it up best: “Totally bizarre to hear Miles [...]

Festival International de Jazz de Montréal – 30th edition

The 30th edition of the Festival International de Jazz de Montreal is upon us. Should be quite a hot scene in Montreal this year. The event runs July 1 to 12, 2009. Of course we’re interested in who will be the 16th recipient of the Miles Davis Award, created for the festival’s 15th anniversary in [...]

Miles Davis Makes You A Better Guitarist

As someone who, as a youngster, wanted to be Eddie Van Halen, I’ve always loved the guitar and guitar players – from Hendrix, Clapton and Stevie Ray Vaughan to Steve Miller, Wes Montgomery and Dickey Betts. So here comes Wayne Brown and a fantastic post from his Wayne’s Guitar Blog titled: Ten Miles Davis Tips [...]

A Year of Praise: The ‘Kind of Blue’ 50th Anniversary

The 50th anniversary of Miles Davis’ seminal recording, “Kind of Blue,” has provided us a tremendous, 50th-anniversary boxed set from Sony, commemorative events, special panels to converse over the album’s legacy and more ink spilled and Internet space devoted to retrospectives, analysis and appreciations about the best-selling jazz recording of all time to keep you [...]

The Sartorial Splendor of Miles Davis

AskMen.com has a running series entitled Style Icon, where they feature a who’s-who of actors, musicians, athletes and other celebrity types for their excellent ability to look/be fashionable. It’s a list, so everybody is up for debate, but there can be no disputing Miles Davis as a Style Icon. So we applaud AskMen.com for adding [...]

‘Kind of Blue’ Gets the Harvard Treatment

In the continuing, 50th anniversary celebration of Kind of Blue we look to the ivy-covered walls of Harvard (Harvard Business School, to be exact) for more analysis and appreciation of the Miles Davis masterpiece. If you’ve ever wondered how Miles Davis created such a magnum opus, the answer just might be “radical simplicity,” according to [...]

Talkin’ Miles: Miles Davis, Reissued

• Good news for fans of the sweet wax. Four classic Miles Davis albums – Sketches Of Spain, In A Silent Way, Nefertiti, and Bitches Brew – have been newly reissued on 180 gram vinyl LPs, which should thrill even the most astute audiophiles. (St. Louis Jazz Notes) • The Miles Davis Movie: Better as [...]