Five Guys Hoping To Not Screw Up Movie About The Life Of Miles Davis Pose For A Nice Photo Together
That other Miles Davis website has posted something of interest. It’s nothing to stop-the-presses, but it’s something. They’ve posted a group photo of Erin Davis, Steve Baigelman (screenwriter for Miles Davis Biopic), Don Cheadle, Darryl Porter, Vince Wilburn Jr. and the very expensive Genius of Miles Davis Limited-Edition Trumpet Case Box Set, which is not [...]
Jimmy Cobb and the Kind of Blue Sessions
It’s eerily appropriate, in a way — Jimmy Cobb is the only musician missing from the photos of the famous “Kind of Blue” recording sessions that decorate his bedroom. He’s also the last one still living, a fact he’s reminded of every day he awakens and sees his old friends staring back at him — [...]
Miles Davis: Walkin’
What a great visual tableau starting about 6:44 in the video; Miles Davis, so cool and deliberate, standing at the back of the stage, watching over Herbie Hancock as he plays. It’s a great ‘moment.’ Just the way Davis holds his instrument, his posture – it all works perfectly. That is an example of a [...]
Miles Davis / In Pictures
Miles Davis / The Album Covers
* sessions, commercial releases, singles, reissues, compilations, live recordings… ** mostly just album covers i think look really cool…
Moving Pictures: The Blue Note Album Covers
This video tribute to the legacy of Blue Note and designer Reid Miles is so awesome I refuse to even waste anyone’s time with my writing about it. The piece was conceived to promote a series of summer jazz concerts at the Bella Vista Social Pub in Siena, Tuscany. Okay, so there isn’t a Miles [...]
Miles Davis Posters Get The Saul Bass Treatment
Wow. These two posters from graphic design artist Loic Romer are terrific. I stumbled across his work recently on Flickr and had to ask Romer about the posters, which are a wonderful homage to the great Saul Bass, as well as Miles Davis. “I had to promote an event in Montreal,” says Romer, “and since [...]
Jazz Photographer Herman Leonard Dies At 87
Jazz scene photographer Herman Leonard, famous for his smoky, backlighted black-and-white photos of such greats as Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis and Frank Sinatra, has died. He was 87. link Thank you, Herman. Rest in peace.
Miles Davis / The Album Covers
* sessions, commercial releases, singles, reissues, compilations, live recordings… ** mostly just album covers i think look really cool…
Miles Davis, Neo-Edwardian Hipster
Miles was a hero to an earlier generation of hipsters, the so-called “Beat Generation” of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and Gregory Corso. Corso even composed a poem for the legendary trumpeter, For Miles. link.
Bitches Brew: 40 Years Later
Be sure to check out Miles Davis: Forty Years of Freedom by Geoffrey Himes in the August issue of JazzTimes. At 10 a.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 19, Miles Davis assembled a group of musicians in Columbia Records’ Studio B in Manhattan to record the music that would become Bitches Brew. Hendrix’s Woodstock band, Gypsy Sun [...]
The Doors Robby Krieger Talks New Album, Miles Davis Influence
Did you make Singularity with a specific vision for the album in mind? I started with the first piece, “Russian Caravan.” I was working on some songs with my friend Arthur Barrow about 10 years ago. We decided to write a tribute to Miles Davis, something like [1960’s] “Sketches of Spain.” I told Arthur, “I’ll [...]
Visualizing Kind of Blue
Visualizing Kind of Blue is a new series of designs depicting jazz music concepts and elements, much like the Periodic Table of Jazz. Visualizing Kind of Blue: Flamenco Sketches attempts to show the improvisational form and harmony used by each soloist on the fifth track of the classic Miles Davis album, Kind of Blue. Currently [...]
Herbie Hancock: “I don’t feel that I’m missing Miles because I don’t feel he’s gone.”
Here’s a quick look at an interview Herbie Hancock recently had with The Telegraph. Q Do you think that jazz has outlived itself? A I’m seeing a lot of new, young jazz players emerging from high schools, way more than I expected. They’re talented, they’re good and they want to play the music. To me [...]
Miles Davis vs. Don Draper
Definitely worth a read. Good stuff. Yet, for all of its strengths, Mad Men wouldn’t be nearly so appealing if not for the fact that it is set during a time when America was neatly divided between the hip and the square. It’s important to point out, though, that during the early ’60s, the time [...]
