Bill Frisell’s Music Education: From Mickey Mouse to Miles Davis
We asked Frisell to recommend a playlist for someone looking to take a crash course in jazz. It proved a difficult assignment. Frisell explains that if you follow one person, it will lead to you all the other jazz greats. He remembers listening to a record where Ron Carter played bass. “So then I go, [...]
Miles Davis / In Pictures
Elvin and Miles.
A Very Large Miles Davis Box Set Indeed
How much musical weight do you give to trumpeter Miles Davis’ 30 years of recordings for Columbia? Everyone may have a different answer, depending on the stylistic preferences of the listener, since Davis was always a ground-breaker in pushing style and sound. While it clearly doesn’t include everything he recorded for the label, Columbia/Legacy this [...]
Getty Images: Inside The Miles Davis Collection
(pt. 6 in a series) Title: Miles Davis… Date created: 01 Jan 1960 Click here to view the awesome PHOTO!
Hey, What’s Don Cheadle Doing?*
Don Cheadle, an internationally respected actor, humanitarian, environmentalist – and the man with the awesome responsibility of portraying jazz legend Miles Davis in the biopic that might be released in 2013 – was appointed Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Environment Programme on June 5, World Environment Day. The designation was announced in Volcanoes National [...]
Dogfish Head Bitches Brew Honors Miles Davis
Dogfish Head Craft Brewery has announced the release of Bitches Brew to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the legendary jazz-funk-rock-fusion masterpiece Bitches Brew by jazz legend Miles Davis. Delaware’s Dogfish Head Craft Brewery has created its own Bitches Brew – a bold, dark beer that’s a fusion of three threads imperial stout and one thread [...]
The Miles Davis Online Interview: Erwann Gauthier
(Artist Series, Volume 16) As Creative Director for Paris-based design studio EZZ-thetic, Erwann Gauthier understands design – in all its many styles and functions. Knowing my passion for All Things Miles Davis®, the talented Gauthier was kind enough to shoot me over some of his artwork inspired by the jazz legend. One of the illustrations [...]
Miles Davis – Live at the Fillmore East (March 7, 1970): It’s About That Time
Alice Cooper and Iggy Pop are usually credited for helping to kill off the peace and love Woodstock hippy rainbow vibe in 1970. Listening to this double live muther of Miles Davis unleashing his electric band on a bunch of hippies at the Fillmore East waiting to see Steve Miller and Neil Young, you could [...]
Today In Miles Davis Movie News…
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Miles Davis & Dennis Hopper: Sparring Partners, Friends
From an interview that originally appeared in the August ’08 issue of Men’s Journal. MJ: What song do you have to hear once a week? Dennis Hpper: When we were kids, Miles Davis and I used to spar together. I was in my early 20s; he was a little older. We’d box, and he’d say [...]
The Miles Davis Online Interview: Lindonês Silveira
(Artist Series, Volume 12) As of a few days ago I am a new fan of artist Lindonês Silveira. I stumbled onto a terrific Miles Davis painting and consequently spent the next few hours pouring over his art galleries. The Blues Jazz collection stands out as a favorite, but his sets on women, urban scenes [...]
