Miles Davis Play Set For Workshop Production This Weekend In Los Angeles
Last year I posted an interview with Greg Machlin, who wrote a terrififc play called Seven Days: a Fantasia on the Life of Miles Davis. I had written about the play earlier when it was playing at the UI Theatre Building on the campus of Iowa University. “Seven Days: a Fantasia on the Life of [...]
Discover Jazz Festival Launches Contest To Re-Imagine Miles Davis’ Bitches Brew Album Art
Attention artists and/or Miles Davis fans! The Burlington Discover Jazz Festival (June 3 – June 12) is issuing a request for submissions from visual artists for artwork re-imagining the original album cover for Miles Davis’ Bitches Brew. The artwork will be displayed in conjunction with the Bitches Brew Revisited performance on June 3 and throughout [...]
Miles Davis: In Just Four Icons
Madison, WI-based designer Kyle Tezak has a great website. One of his ongoing projects is The Four Icon Challenge. The goal is to use just four icons at a time to represent some of his favorite films, books, etc. It’s minimal, it’s cool and it’s awesome! I think ‘The Great Gatsby’ is my favorite of [...]
Hey, What’s Don Cheadle Doing?*
Showtime Orders New Series Starring Don Cheadle and Claire Danes: In “House of Lies,” Mr. Cheadle plays a ruthless management consultant and Kristen Bell (“Veronica Mars”) plays a colleague at his firm. via artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com * when he’s not working on the Miles Davis Biopic
Miles Davis Tribute Set For Montreux Jazz Festival
The 45th annual Montreux Jazz Festival will feature a tribute to Miles Davis. Quincy Jones, legendary producer and former co-director of the Montreux festival, will oversee the July 13th tribute to Miles Davis, along with Herbie Hancock, Marcus Miller and Wayne Shorter. Seal, Santana and Sting have also been lined up for the event. Carlos [...]
Miles Davis / In Pictures
Monterey Jazz Festival, September 1969 Photographer: Baron Wolman via
Miles Davis / In Pictures
Date: 07/12/1957 via ina
Miles Davis Multimedia Retrospective Set From The Jazz Arts Group
The Jazz Arts Group’s Inside Track series caps off Jazz Appreciation Month on April 29 – 30 at the Lincoln Theatre with “Birth of the Cool,” a recreation of the iconic 1949-50 Miles Davis recording sessions featuring Mark Flugge (music director) and Jim Powell (trumpet); and a multi-media retrospective of mid-century art and design including [...]
Miles Davis / In Pictures
Miles Davis Birdhouse, Chicago 1962 By Ted Williams
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