Miles Davis & The Ivy League Style
This is why I love the Internet – because I can stumble upon an article about ivy-league style, Miles Davis and jazz. On the Ralph Lauren website, no less. There are some great photos that accompany the article (definitely worth a read if you find stories about preppy jazz greats and how they discovered their [...]
Miles Davis / Books
Miles Davis Goes Chiptune On ‘Kind Of Bloop’
Miles Davis can always be counted on to get the creative engines revved up. Andy Baio, made Upcoming.org writes at Waxy.org, just launched a super cool project. Say hello to Kind of Bloop: An 8-bit tribute to Miles Davis and Kind of Blue. Writes Andy, “I’ve always wondered what chiptune jazz covers would sound like. [...]
Miles Davis: All Of You (’64)
* The Miles Davis Movie: Filming the ‘Second Great Quintet’
Miles Davis / In Pictures
Miles Davis Makes Me Want To Buy A Scooter
It might be 20 years late, but I want to applaud Honda for developing such a great ad campaign. – “Hey, let’s get the coolest jazz guy ever and put him on a scooter.” – “Genius!” More from Honda – and scooters: Jim McMahon Honda Scooter Ad Lou Reed Honda Scooter Ad Grace Jones for [...]
Miles Davis: London, Hammersmith Odeon
Rock’s Backpages is a music lovers dream; an online archive of 10,000-plus classic music interviews and reviews, searchable by artist or writer. Launched in 2000 by Barney Hoskyns, a former editor for the Brit music mag Mojo, the content is not free – a six-month personal subscription goes for $36; for a full year, it [...]
Miles Davis / To Do List
What: Miles Davis “Birth of the Cool” Birthday Tribute When: Sun May 24 8pm – Sun May 24 11:59pm 20090524T200000/20090524T235900 Where: Anna’s Jazz Island in Berkeley
Miles Davis And The Power Of Constraint
Never one to ignore a Miles Davis reference, I found an interesting article on Wired.com a few weeks back that looks at design and ‘how limits boost creativity.‘ In making his point about constraint offering ‘an unparalleled opportunity for growth and innovation’ Scott Dadich looks to Miles Davis as proof: …just consider these cultural and [...]
Kind of Blue @ 50
Writing in the LA Times on Sunday, Scott Timberg provides a nice analysis and perspective on the importance of Kind of Blue, the recording we are well aware is celebrating its 50th anniversary. Timberg’s is but one of numerous editorial commendations given Miles Davis’ seminal recording this year – a collection of classic tunes and [...]
Herman Leonard: “Miles Davis was a profound intense intellectual jazz musician”
Excellent interview with famous jazz photographer Herman Leonard on the Smithsonian’s quite charming website. Writes Lucinda Moore, “From jazz singers Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday to the geniuses of bebop—Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie “Bird” Parker and Miles Davis—Leonard captured for posterity a transitional period in the history of jazz.” Asked what made Miles Davis so intriguing, [...]
Miles Davis / In Pictures
Talkin’ Miles: 1959, Botti & Art
· Matthew Kohut writes in a Huffington Post commentary that 1959 was definitely The Year Jazz Threw Out the Rules. With Ornette Coleman’s The Shape of Jazz to Come, John Coltrane’s Giant Steps, Dave Brubeck’s Time Out and Miles Davis‘ Kind of Blue each released in 1959, it was a magical and revolutionary year for jazz. And why was [...]
Miles Davis / The Sidemen
Miles Davis / From The Archives
We begin this look back to old newspaper and magazine articles with Ben Ratliff’s 2001 commentary about Miles Davis and the notion of ‘changing music.’ Miles Davis: Restless Grooves I’VE changed music five or six times,” Miles Davis wrote in ”Miles: The Autobiography” (1989), a book that offers a great modern example of the untrustworthy [...]
