The Miles Davis Documentary Will Be Here – Soon

For a time Christopher Wilkinson and Stephen J. Rivele were the screenwriters on the Untitled Miles Davis Biopic. Now it’s Steve Baigelman given the tall order of writing the script about the jazz legend. I know nothing, but obviously the project has a new writer because the previous writing duo (“Ali,” “Nixon”) weren’t on the [...]

Miles Davis / The Album Covers

* sessions, commercial releases, singles, reissues, compilations, live recordings… ** mostly just album covers i think look really cool…

Miles Davis Artwork Set For London Exhibition

Miles Davis will have his last remaining 100 original drawings and oil paintings showcased at Gallery 27 in Cork Street Mayfair from December 7 to December 12. Many of his paintings reflect his well documented fascination with and love of women, together with evocations of African tribal art. This work, since his death, has been [...]

Miles Davis / In Pictures

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving from Miles Davis Online!

Miles Davis / In Pictures

Miles Davis and Elvin Jones, c.1959

The Life Aquatic with Miles Davis

Getty Images: Miles Davis (1926 – 1991), swims, still in his sunglasses, in the health club atop the UN Plaza Hotel, New York, New York, mid 1980s. (Photo by Oliver Morris) I honestly had no idea such watery photos existed of Miles Davis. You’ll have to be so kind as to flip over to visit [...]

A Miles Davis Debate Starring James Mtume & Stanley Crouch

Via Jazgeem’s Blog we get a terrific, and quite fiery, debate between James Mtume and jazz critic Stanley Crouch about the influence of Miles Davis.

Getty Images: Inside The Miles Davis Collection

(pt. 8 in a series) Title: Miles Davis Date created: 01 Jan 1959 Click here to view the awesome PHOTO!

Miles Davis / The Album Covers

* sessions, commercial releases, singles, reissues, compilations, live recordings… ** mostly just album covers i think look really cool…

Miles Davis… Online

Miles Davis, Cartoon’d Breaking down the Miles Davis Neckerchief – link Jazz Hot House reminds us that Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers (w/. Lee Morgan in particular) were pretty fantastic. Juliette Greco on her friendship with Jean-Paul Satre, her love affair with musician Miles Davis, and her thoughts on modern culture – link Concord [...]

He Solves Crimes, He Listens To Miles Davis

“Ash Levine, the protagonist of Miles Corwin’s debut novel, Kind of Blue (Oceanview, November), is another music lover: As the title indicates, he’s serious about Miles Davis. An LAPD detective who comes out of retirement to investigate the murder of another ex-officer, Levine, like an increasing number of thriller heroes, has ties to the Israeli [...]

Wake Up With Miles Davis!

I might have to spend a night or two at the Hyatt Regency St. Louis at The Arch just to get my day started the right way — and that’s with a motivational wake-up call from Miles Davis! Here’s the item I found via Connect Magazine’s website: Miles Davis Makes Mornings Brighter at Hyatt In [...]

Miles Davis / In Pictures

Betty and Miles Davis ringside at the Muhammad Ali-Joe Frazier title fight in New York, 1971. Photograph: Michael Ochs Archives/Corbis

Miles ‘69

One of my favorite web destinations is this isn’t happiness, Peter Nidzgorski’s art, photography and design blog (via tumblr). The other day he posted a classic image of Miles Davis, so I thought that was the perfect opportunity for me to mention his terrific blog. Miles Davis Online is on tumblr as well – fyi.