The Miles Davis Movie: Will It Be The Best Movie Ever About Jazz? Or: Wow, There Are Not A Lot Of Movies About Jazz

Let’s take a look at a shortlist of good-to-great films with jazz as its central theme (excluding documentaries…): Bird Round Midnight Mo’ Better Blues The Five Pennies Sweet And Lowdown Sweet Love, Bitter Tune in Tomorrow… Paris Blues St. Louis Blues The Glenn Miller Story Young Man with a Horn Lady Sings the Blues The [...]

The Hands Of Miles Davis

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Miles Davis At Ronnie Scott’s

A rare clip of Miles Davis playing at Ronnie Scott’s club in London 1969.

Miles Davis Featured In National Jazz Museum Screening

National Jazz Museum in Harlem Jazz for Curious Listeners / Jazz on Film: Miles Davis Tuesday, February 22, 2011 7:00 – 8:30pm Location: NJMH Visitors Center (104 E. 126th Street, Suite 2C) FREE | For more information: 212-348-8300 “Miles Davis on film playing trumpet with the Gil Evans Orchestra as John Coltrane waits in the [...]

Miles Davis Down Under: Adelaide Symphony Orchestra To Celebrate The Music of Miles Davis

ASO Plays Miles Davis Friday May 13, 8:00 pm Saturday May 14, 8:00 pm Adelaide Entertainment Centre Theatre The Adelaide Symphony Orchestra and jazz go hand in hand. Over the last decade the orchestra have shared the stage or paid tribute to many masters of the jazz world including Herbie Hancock, Lalo Schifrin, Duke Ellington [...]

Miles Davis: Bitches Brew Live | The Reviews Are In

Bitches Brew Live was released last week and the response has been consistently positive for the live edition of the Miles Davis classic. Here’s a quick look at some of the album reviews of Bitches Brew Live. Los Angeles Times The question is, does the average jazz fan need yet another Miles Davis set? In [...]

Miles Davis Online Wishes You A Happy Valentine’s Day

Miles Davis Quartet – “My Funny Valentine” From the album Cookin’ (1956 – Prestige Records) Personnel: Miles Davis (trumpet), Red Garland (piano), Paul Chambers (bass), Philly Joe Jones (drums) Extra Valentine’s Day Goodness:

Miles Davis / The Boxer

[Part 3 in a series of posts featuring articles, photographs and opinions about the relationship between the sport of boxing and the life and music of Miles Davis] The latest installment and excerpt is from Scoop Malinowski. The writer decided to research Miles Davis and what he said about ‘the art of pugilism’ in John [...]

Miles Davis / The Album Covers

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

Today In Miles Davis Movie News…

Miles Davis At The 1982 Grammy Awards

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Miles Davis And Kind Of Blue Celebrated By Artist Sam Nhlengethwa

I missed this item last year, but I’m quite happy to circle back and feature some truly beautiful artwork the celebrates Miles Davis and Kind of Blue. Back in August, Sam Nhlengethwa paid homage to Miles Davis in a solo exhibition of new drawings, prints and paintings at the Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg. With its [...]

Miles Davis | Around The Web

A Weekly Round-Up Of Miles Davis News And Notes 1. Miles Davis and “So What” ranked #2 on The Jazz 100 The Jazz 100 is a crowd-sourced list of the most quintessential jazz songs of all time, determined by the listeners of Jazz24.org and NPR Music. (npr.org) 2. Jazz Knights set to pay tribute to [...]

Miles Davis In St. Louis: 1953 Interview

Here is something really terrific. Lockwood & Summit features a great (and quite rare) audio interview of Miles Davis on KXLW in East St. Louis from 1953. Miles was visiting with DJ Harry Frost on his ‘Fresh Air’ show. David Hill at the always enjoyable Jazz Hot House sums it up best: “Totally bizarre to [...]