Getty Images: Inside The Miles Davis Collection

(pt. 9 in a series) Title: Nice Shades Miles Date created: 11th July 1973 Click here to view the awesome PHOTO! * This is a good one!

Miles Davis Tune Works Surprisingly Well Over Freestyle BMX Footage

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Miles Davis Talks About Art And Paintings

The 1988 interview with Miles Davis talking about his art and paintings was recorded by YouTube user RedPortiaOne. via

Miles Davis – Jack Johnson

Miles Davis | Jack Johnson Date: 1971 Description: Original newspaper LP promo ad for Miles Davis and his 1971 album Jack Johnson. via

Miles Davis – Fillmore 1970

Miles Davis | Fillmore 1970 Date: 1970 Description: Original full page promotional ad for Miles Davis At Fillmore LP. via

Miles Davis And The Oscars

With today’s announcement of nominees for the 83rd Academy Awards, I once again have an opportunity to dust off my Miles Davis/Oscars post. It’s a terrific game of awards speculation, especially now that Don Cheadle has shed a little light on the Miles Davis Biopic, offering a few details about what we have to look [...]

Miles Davis – UCLA 1967

Miles Davis | UCLA 1967 Original newspaper concert article for Miles Davis at the Pauley Pavillion UCLA from 1967. via

The Reggae Interpretation Of Kind Of Blue

Text about the album Reggae Interpretation of Kind of Blue courtesy Secret Stash Records. Definitely check out the song samples. It’s a pretty cool spin on a true classic. In the spring of 1981 a group of reggae studio musicians from Jamaica gathered in New York City under the direction of Jeremy Taylor, a music [...]

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…

Miles Davis / In Pictures

From everyday i show, by way of This Isn’t Happiness, I am happy to have discovered a marvelous photograph of Miles Davis. Photo via Institut national de l’audiovisuel

Detroit Symphony Orchestra Presents A Tribute To Miles Davis

The Detroit Symphony Orchestra will present four colleagues of jazz legend Miles Davis at Orchestra Hall on Fri., Feb. 4 at 8 p.m. in their tribute to his musical legacy with Four Generations of Miles. Each member of this quartet of jazz heavyweights, which includes Sonny Fortune (saxophone), Wallace Roney (trumpet), Jimmy Cobb (drums) and [...]

Miles Davis’ Work To Be Celebrated With Miami Concert

Now celebrating its Fifth Anniversary Season, the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County presents Jazz Roots: Celebrating Miles, part of the Larry Rosen Jazz Series in commemoration of Black History Month in February. ‘The program features an all-star lineup of jazz greats and former Miles Davis collaborators paying tribute to one [...]

Miles Davis Arriving In Paris

If they’d let me embed the clip I would have, but my goodness please go enjoy 41 seconds of footage from 1963 of Miles Davis arriving in Paris. Please! VIDEO LINK: Arrivée à Paris de Miles Davis In French: A Paris, arrivée de Miles DAVIS à la gare Saint Lazare accompagné de sa femme. A [...]

Miles Davis And Philip Seymour Hoffman And A Pool In NYC

This is a great story from actor Philip Seymour Hoffman. Via ContactMusic.com, here is the breakdown from Hoffman about his encounter with Miles Davis when the jazz legend was swimming in the pool where he was a lifeguard. The actor recalls, “I was a lifeguard in my early 20s at this place, the Metropolitan Towers… [...]