You Know You Want It: The Complete Columbia Album Collection

Exclusive to Amazon.com, Columbia/Legacy presents Miles Davis: The Complete Columbia Album Collection, a deluxe, limited edition retrospective of the iconic music Miles Davis created during his 30 years with Columbia Records.This exquisite package, comprised of 70 CDs and 1 DVD, contains all 52 of Miles’ Columbia recordings in Japanese-styled mini LP jackets and includes a [...]

Miles Davis Dies On This Day In 1991

Jazz trumpeter Miles Davis dies in Santa Monica, California, at age 65. The son of a St. Louis dentist, Davis began playing trumpet at age 13 and was playing with local jazz bands by his late teens. He moved to New York to study at Julliard and became roommates with saxophone great Charlie Parker. Davis [...]

The Sidemen: Prestige To Release New Coltrane 5-CD Boxed Set

Over the past three years, Prestige Records has released boxed sets of John Coltrane’s numerous sessions from the mid- to late ’50s, each spotlighting a specific dimension of his tenure with the label. Fearless Leader – released in September 2006, in celebration of Coltrane’s 80th birthday – showcases his recordings as a bandleader. Interplay, released [...]

The Miles Davis Movie: Better As A Documentary Film?

I read an article in Variety about the difficult marketplace for music documentaries. We’ve definitely come a long way from the Oscar-winning “Woodstock” and other classic, music docs like (the awesome) “The Last Waltz” and (equally great) “Stop Making Sense” — there have been plenty of good music films over the years, but the market [...]

The Miles Davis Movie: Filming the Second Great Quintet

I’m fascinated by debate, specifically the type of competitive debate you see on high school and college campuses and in big state and national tournaments. I’ve seen HBO’s documentary “Resolved” about 100 times now, and I always get so jazzed watching the debaters in action. I’d like to see an advanced debate played about over [...]

The Miles Davis Movie: Highly-Fictionalized, Or Just The Facts?

A few days ago I spotted this photo gallery/feature on Yahoo! about the 10 Most Biographically Inaccurate Movies. Obviously it got me thinking about the Miles Davis biopic and what, if any, liberties should the screenwriters take in crafting the story of Miles Davis for a motion picture. The feature, in no way a think [...]

The Miles Davis Movie: Who is going to play Charlie Parker?

Of course Charlie Parker will be in the film. How could he not be? His influence on Davis is significant and certainly well documented. In 1944, the Billy Eckstine band visited St. Louis. Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker were members of the band, and Davis was taken on as third trumpet for a couple of [...]

New Miles Davis Exhibition at the Cité de la Musique in Paris

Oh, to be in Paris anytime between October 16th and January 17th (2010). “This exhibition follows Miles Davis’ musical and personal journey, from his hometown in East St-Louis, to his retrospective concert at La Villette in Paris, just a few weeks before his death. Beginning in the mid Sixties, Miles Davis began printing “Directions in [...]

Miles Davis & Juliette Greco

‘Sartre asked Miles why we weren’t married. He said he loved me too much to make me unhappy’ Miles Davis was just 22 when he met the actor, and later singer, Juliette Greco. From 2006, in the week Davis would have turned 80, Greco celebrates their love in her own words – …So I met [...]