Miles Davis / In Pictures
Christies / Lot Description / Miles Davis Preliminary artwork for an album cover, the black and white portrait photograph of Miles Davis by Jan Persson, showing Davis performing on stage in Berlin, 25 September, 1964, the photograph pasted onto board beneath a paper overlay annotated with various printers’ instructions and embellished with a smaller copy [...]
Miles Davis & Gil Evans (’59)
* Who is going to play Gil Evans in the Miles Davis Biopic?
Miles Davis & Prince In Concert
I’m a big fan of Prince. I think the guy is a musical genius. As a performer he is among the greats, right up there with James Brown. He also collaborated with Miles Davis here and there back in the ’80s. In honor of Prince’s birthday Sunday (June 7) the Honey Soul music blog has [...]
Understanding The Gaslight Anthem’s “Miles Davis & the Cool”
I admit to not knowing too much about the rock band The Gaslight Anthem. That they have a song called “Miles Davis & the Cool” is reason enough for me to at least investigate their affinity for the Prince of Darkness. I turn to an interview with IndyWeek (from April) to gain a bit of [...]
Miles Davis, Birdland & Venus Retrograde
Without getting too scientific I’ll defer quickly to Nick Dagan Best’s article from 2007 where he examines ‘…a historical parallel between the synodic cycle of Venus and the Sun relative to explosive moments in U.S. black-white race relations over a span of 160 years.’ As part of his research he touches on the infamous, 1959 [...]
Miles Davis / In Pictures
Talkin’ Miles: Quotes & Photographs
Check out great photos, a short video clip, and two fantastic audio tracks — Rocker and Moon Dreams — from the recent sold out Birth of the Cool Miles Davis Tribute live at Yoshi’s in San Francisco on May 25, 2009. Pitchfork reviews Sketches of Spain: Legacy Edition. “You know, Miles had a mystique about [...]
Miles Davis / In Pictures
Session Group shot: Back row (l. to r.): Robert Altschuler, Columbia’s head of publicity, Masabumi Kikuchi, George Pavlis. Middle row (l. to r.): TM Stevens, Al Foster, Teo Macero. Front row (l. to r.): Larry Coryell, Eleana Steinberg, Miles Davis. © Photo Columbia Records/Sony Music. Courtesy George Pavlis, Wendy Simmons-Taylor
Miles Davis / The Boxer
Here is the first of many posts that will feature articles, photographs and opinions about the sport of boxing in the life and music of Miles Davis. I don’t love the title for this series, so I’m grateful for suggestions. “…The proliferation of radio was a huge boost to boxing and garnered the Brown Bomber [...]
Miles Davis / From The Archives
In a 2001 Village Voice article, Richard B. Woodward takes a look at the business of selling jazz music in a changing marketplace. …Like classical music, jazz now boasts a set of canonical giants—Armstrong, Ellington, Bird, Monk—familiar to record buyers young and old. Twenty years ago a Coltrane record in a rock collection betokened a [...]
Richard Lewis Talks Miles Davis In New Interview
Here’s part of an interview with Richard Lewis, the actor, comedian, and world-class neurotic. The interview, conducted by Paul Matwychuk, appears in SEE Magazine, which is based in Edmonton. I’ve always liked Richard Lewis (Anything But Love, anyone? Great show!), so it’s cool to see him refer to Miles Davis in this really good interview [...]
The Miles Davis Online Interview: Greg Machlin
Back in January on the Miles Davis Movie blog I wrote about Seven Days: a Fantasia on the Life of Miles Davis, a play written by Greg Machlin, which was then playing at the UI Theatre Building on the campus of Iowa University. The play follows a seven-day stint in 1954 during which Miles Davis [...]
Miles Davis At The Exchange Court Gallery
Oh, to be in London… Via Martin Newman, writing at mirror.co.uk: The last exhibition ever of drawings and oil paintings by the late and legendary jazz musician Miles Davis is being showcased at the Exchange Court Gallery in Covent Garden. The Exhibition also includes some of the love notes Miles wrote to his girlfriend before [...]
Miles Davis / From The Archives
Here’s an excellent read by Marc Hopkins from an October 2006 article in JazzTimes. Entitled Miles Davis: Selling the Dark Prince, Hopkins looks at what was then the start of a big media push by the Miles Davis estate to take the Miles Davis brand to the next level. It’s three years later, and after [...]
Talkin Miles: Outtakes, Philly Joe & Walkin’
St. Louis Jazz Notes has posted an excellent video showcase of Miles Davis. The Art of Jazz #93 is Walkin’. From Tom Sutpen and one of my favorite websites Photograph of Miles Davis from a performance at Stanford’s Frost Amphitheater in the late 80′s. Via Terry Way. “I caught up with jazz around the end [...]
