Miles Davis / In Pictures
French Glamour Comes To Hong Kong, Miles Davis Included
The festival-within-a-festival, “Femmes Femmes Femmes: Imagination of Women in French Cinema,” has a specific focus on the legendary actress Jeanne Moreau, who will be making a personal appearance at the gala opening on June 3. Many of Ms. Moreau’s classics, like François Truffaut’s “Jules and Jim,” will be shown — but the absolutely must-see film [...]
Too Much Kind Of Blue? The Case For Giving Overexposed Masterworks A Rest
*Absolutely worth a read this holiday weekend. Hope everyone is doing well! Richard Williams recently wrote a book called “The Blue Moment: Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue and the Remaking of Modern Music.” I haven’t yet read Mr. Williams’ study of the great jazz trumpeter’s best-known album, and to be perfectly honest, I doubt I’m [...]
How Miles Davis Helped The Byrds
Though he helped provide a new direction for rock in the mid-60s, singer and songwriter Roger McGuinn has always considered himself first and foremost a folk musician. His brilliant 12-string Rickenbacker guitar style — a mix of rippling chordal flurries and the innovative atonality normally associated with avant-garde jazz musicians — coupled with soaring leads [...]
Miles Davis Tribute Concert In Chicago
It’s practically becoming a cultural rite in Chicago: the annual Memorial Day celebration of Miles Davis’ birthday, led by the brilliant Chicago pianist Robert Irving III. Irving, who worked closely with Davis from 1979 to 1988, will preside over the third annual event at 8:30 p.m. Monday at the Velvet Lounge. (Davis would have turned [...]
Miles Davis 2010
Nineteen years after his passing and a generation or two removed from when his songs were considered ‘popular music,’ Miles Davis’ place in our cultural and musical foundation remains secure. And in this wired age, the discovery and experience of Miles Davis, one of the most influential musicians in jazz history, is as immediate and [...]
The Miles Davis Online Interview: Paul Slaughter
(Artist Series, Volume 10) * This is a re-post of an interview I did last year with the great Paul Slaughter. I’m delighted to post this conversation I had recently with the talented photographer Paul Slaughter. A former disc jockey at a Los Angeles jazz station in the ‘60s, Paul went on to photograph beautiful [...]
Stories To Tell: Photographer and Writer To Discuss Miles Davis
Writer Quincy Troupe and photographer Anthony Barboza will recount stories about Miles Davis starting at 7 p.m. Wednesday night in a salon appearance titled: “A Listening Party: Anthony Barboza & Quincy Troupe, Celebrating Miles Davis on His Birthday, Sharing Stories About a Legend. The brainchild of Troupe’s wife, Margaret Porter Troupe, the salon will be [...]
Get Your Miles Davis Music Discounts At Amie Street
To help celebrate the birthday of Miles Davis this week, Amie Street is offering 10 Miles Davis album downloads for $5 each. Miles Davis Discounts | Amie Street.
The Miles Davis Online Interview: Jeff Bridges
(Artist Series, Volume 9) As I had mentioned in the previous Artist Series post, I have a thing for tracking down Miles Davis-inspired artwork on Flickr. And once again I recently stumbled upon a great-looking oil painting of the jazz icon – this particular artwork courtesy of Jeff Bridges. There’s a superb collection in the [...]
Miles Davis / The Album Covers
* sessions, imports, singles, reissues, compilations, live recordings… ** mostly just album covers i think look really cool…
A Miles Davis Typeface
Xavier Encinas, over at the always enjoyable Swiss Legacy blog, directs us to Paris-based design studio WA75′s excellent typeface called Miles Grotesk. The graphic design was created for the recent We Want Miles exhibition presented at the Cité de la Musique, which was open from October 2009 to January 2010. The exhibit has since moved [...]
Open Letter To Miles Davis From Charles Mingus
* definitely worth a read An Open Letter To Miles Davis By Charles Mingus November 30, 1955 Down Beat Magazine Four editions of Down Beat come to my mind’s eye-Bird’s “Blindfold Test,” mine, Miles’ and Miles’ recent “comeback story”-as I sit down and attempt to honestly write my thoughts in an open letter to Miles [...]
Miles Davis / In Pictures
The Miles Davis Online Interview: Ricardo Cavolo
(Artist Series, Volume 
I’m not much of a power user of Flickr. But I have been known to spend hours scrolling through the Miles Davis photographs. A lot of people have posted a lot of terrific Miles Davis content – and for that I’m grateful. And it’s via Flickr where I have discovered some [...]
